Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is only one Arsenal today , and I can not conceive another simply because no other club have players fitted to carry on the same ideas . ’ |
| 2 | Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) . |
| 3 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 4 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 5 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 6 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 7 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 8 | You get a little book , and you have to take out the tape , and you have to write down the different conversations you have in between , all your conversations , and then erm , . |
| 9 | In Cheshire Lines Committee v. Lewis & Co. ( 1880 ) 50 L.J.Q.B. 121 an agreement for a weekly tenancy contained an undertaking by the landlord not to give notice to quit until the landlord required to pull down the demised buildings . |
| 10 | Remove Marxism — as the Hungarians have done this weekend — and the pressures to pull down the artificial barriers with the other freer , richer , and more appealing Germany , would become irresistible . |
| 11 | Granted , if socialists merely develop a list of pat answers to these questions ( nationalisation , ‘ planning ’ ) while failing to fight for more immediately realisable socialist gains outside of government they will not get much of a hearing , but equally to write off the macroeconomic questions as too difficult to speculate about is to forego the right to contest the policies of a reactionary national government . |
| 12 | Nor , says Mr Imai , should they be allowed to write off the exorbitant sums they spend on promoting group-wide harmony . |
| 13 | You can now start venturing away from your measured route and start looking for additional ways to clock up the extra miles — try walking to the shops instead of driving ; try parking the car further away from work and walking the rest of the way ; or getting off the bus or train one or two stops from your destination and walking the rest of the way . |
| 14 | First , to sum up the relevant conclusions so far . |
| 15 | So , to sum up the main points so far : the scriptible as a value and the commentary as a form of reading both imply an approach which is largely incompatible with the chief principles of classical structuralism . |
| 16 | The results of this voyage were published in fifty large volumes between 1880 and 1895 , and represented international collaboration in oceanography and marine biology ; the most eminent authorities in the world were chosen to write up the various results and describe the collections . |
| 17 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 18 | After a brief warm-up , participants dispersed to try out the various sports , and then the time came for the games , which involved the competitors in ( among other things ) rushing to get balls round traffic cones , and into baskets . |
| 19 | In Bassetlaw the care manager for mental health is on maternity leave and the existing social work team is having to try out the new procedures . |
| 20 | We advise our composers , helping to sift out the bad songs and to search out opportunities for our writers to compose ‘ covers ’ for particular artists . |
| 21 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 22 | Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names . |
| 23 | Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons . |
| 24 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 25 | , writes : MY DAUGHTER is getting married in October and we are trying to find out the proper rules . |
| 26 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 27 | If there is one of interest in your area , please contact the appropriate person to find out the full details and whether places are still available . |
| 28 | IN THE SECOND PART OF OUR SERIES ON PRACTICAL USES FOR YOUR SPREADSHEET , DENNIS JENKIN EXPLAINS HOW TO WORK OUT THE FINANCIAL PROS AND CONS OF RENTING OR BUYING A PROPERTY . |
| 29 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 30 | It gave us both lots of pleasure trying to work out the various clues , so we shall give ourselves a pat on the back for doing so well — hope you will have some more mind-boggling competitions in the future . |