Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hold the leaders hostage in the hall whilst the larger force punch their way through the defences to take the Rorim from its leaderless and probably drunk defenders . |
| 2 | Where this is not feasible , it may at least be possible to arrange for the experts to see the child together . |
| 3 | The main ‘ mistakes ’ were : the Communist Party 's forcible suppression of opposition in 1948 to establish a political dictatorship in Hungary ; the Stalinist era 's ‘ unrealistic pace of military preparation , ill-conceived industrialisation and the forced collectivisation ’ ; Stalinist ‘ harassment of millions of people , the mass violation of rights and intimidation ’ ; the violent Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt , which is now now officially defined as a popular uprising ; and the party 's inability from the mid-1970s to continue the decentralisation of economic reforms launched in 1968 . |
| 4 | While we endeavour to adopt ‘ best modern practice ’ it would be inappropriate for the accounts to lead the Accounting Standards Board , particularly as the Board is independent of the Institute . |
| 5 | We can see that it coincided with the beginning of that period when society in Britain was to adjust to the absolutely new conditions of the Industrial Revolution , to develop the political thought that signalled the recognition of the need to adjust , and of the institutions to realise the adjustment . |
| 6 | The five other directors had called for the Deanses to leave the board . |
| 7 | This triggers a conformational change of the toxin , revealing the hydrophobic core of Domain I α 5 ( which is apparently the ‘ business end ’ of all the δ endotoxins ) and causing the helices to penetrate the membrane . |
| 8 | This is to enable the shareholders to receive the sale proceeds directly , as there is likely to be an additional tax cost if the proceeds of sale need to be extracted from Target after the transaction . |
| 9 | The financial crisis was such that in spring 1990 Mr Naqvi went to Abu Dhabi and appealed to the shareholders to rescue the bank . |
| 10 | Finally , s 5 regulates the attempts to evade the UCTA by use of the manufacturer 's so-called " guarantee " . |
| 11 | The attempts to rationalize the administration , to centralize power , collided directly with local liberties and the particularist and traditional privileges of the old supporters of the regime ( for example , the Tatar nobility ) . |
| 12 | However , the attempts to improve the position of the tenant have interfered with the market mechanism , which has led to a decline in the supply of accommodation on offer . |
| 13 | The Commission is reluctant to grant protection to these industries as it would harm the LDCs ( see Chapter 11 ) , and would not help in the attempts to improve the productivity of the EC economy . |
| 14 | In fact , multinational oil companies working in the North Sea had little choice but to be receptive to the attempts to maximise the spin-off for UK industry if they wanted to stay in good standing with the Government when applications were being considered for exploration licences . |
| 15 | However token the attempts to open the play out from its Tudor house setting with shots of sea waves , a train coming into a station and a village street , the result is still entertaining . |
| 16 | The title ‘ Futility ’ has a double meaning : at first , the futility of the attempts to rouse the soldier and in the latter half , the futility of all the complexity of the earth and the effort put into achieving this when it is just destroyed . |
| 17 | In a totally different category , however , have been the attempts to use the administration of the law for expedients such as unjustified murder charges in order to promote the political interests of the government . |
| 18 | There seems to be no reason why the attempts to serve the defendant before applying for substituted service on his insurers or MIB should not be by post , but it is probably safer to try personal service . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Kemf 's journeys are all in the service of documenting the devastating effects that US bombing and chemical defoliation had upon the people and the environment of Vietnam — and the attempts to mend the damage . |
| 20 | These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn . |
| 21 | He also made clear his misgivings at the attempts to rush the decision . |
| 22 | Such matters resisted even the intense interest of the bourgeois world in ‘ moral statistics ’ , as a late-nineteenth-century reference book sadly admitted , dismissing all the attempts to measure the extent of prostitution as failures . |
| 23 | On April 18-19 , Easter weekend , soldiers predominantly from the Zaghawa tribe ( President Déby was a member of the related Bideyat group ) had surrounded the presidential palace in protest at the attempts to demilitarize the capital , Ndjamena , and at planned cutbacks in the armed forces . |
| 24 | The idea that graded morphogen concentrations are important in controlling development is a very old one and the attempts to identify the morphogen have failed , almost without exception . |
| 25 | And sometimes Hywel goes out in the day with his gun and he shoots rabbits and pigeons and crows and foxes , and some he brings home to eat , and some he hangs in the hedges to remind the world that there is death . |
| 26 | Already lines of recruits are filing past the hotplates to collect the Catering Corps ' famous blend of humour and culinary excellence . |
| 27 | Once again , it is left to the courts to draw the line according to their overall judgment of the facts . |
| 28 | As to the first of those points , the ability of the courts to control the visitor by the prerogative writs has been established by many cases . |
| 29 | This would probably have been sufficient to enable the courts to assess the performance as a whole , but the Bill was nevertheless further amended in the House of Lords so that both expressions now appear . |
| 30 | This line of reasoning enables the courts to use the Convention as a means of restricting the operation of statutes . |