Example sentences of "to [noun] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single remaining piece of evidence which linked Kirov the tailor to Kirov the dissident activist was in his pocket , sealed within a plain brown , un-addressed envelope . |
| 2 | Despite the chill he caught on New Year 's Day 1934 while watching a game at Bury , Chapman decided to go to Sheffield the next day to watch the Wednesday , Arsenal 's next opponents at Highbury . |
| 3 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 4 | I went to window three and asked for a ticket to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 5 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 6 | Although from West Bay to Abbotsbury the main shingle ridge hugs the coast , it departs from the coast south-east of Abbotsbury and leaves between it and the mainland the elongated lagoon known as the Fleet . |
| 7 | He flew , with Isobel , to Moscow the following week . |
| 8 | The queen 's popularity soared still further when , on 9 April 1713 , she was able to announce to Parliament the final signature , two days before , of the Treaty of Utrecht , restoring peace to Europe and bringing to Great Britain such solid benefits as the destruction of the fortifications of Dunkirk and the retention of Gibraltar as a British possession . |
| 9 | Until some spoilsport thought to measure the 100-yard track — and found it was just over 70 yards . |
| 10 | Carefully designed case-control studies are therefore required to measure the separate effect of radon exposure after controlling for smoking behaviour and other risk factors . |
| 11 | In 1868 , Donders attempted to measure the additional time taken by certain mental processes such as discrimination and choice . |
| 12 | Two separate network indices are used to measure the changing patterns of the migrants ' social relationships ; the first is the integration index and the second the urbanization index . |
| 13 | Different indices represent the ingenuity with which the theoretical constructs can be made to produce satisfactory elaborations that result in different indices and , equally important , the extent to which different indices can , plausibly , be said to measure the same concept . |
| 14 | Similarly , for any group of items which are intended to measure the same aspect of linguistic functioning , there will be a range of scores for children of a similar age ( see Figure 8.1 ) . |
| 15 | Attempts were made to measure the relative contribution to the overall metabolism of mucosa , lamina propria , and muscularis layers . |
| 16 | In fact , no calculations were published which attempted to measure the precise costs or specify the benefits to be derived from an ageing population . |
| 17 | Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories . |
| 18 | The wording of the question is not the factor leading to difficulty the same wording used with whole numbers for criterion 1 e produced a success rate of over 80 per cent . |
| 19 | When we come to Waterloo the Great Duke 's extraordinary ability to be exactly where he was needed at the crucial moment is well described , as are his outward calm and inspiring courage . |
| 20 | . Oh no , as I was saying to Reed the other day , er Reed has joined our class by the way . |
| 21 | These ten were leading nurserymen in the London area around 1720 and Miller , writing to Blair the following year , acknowledged their help . |
| 22 | According to experts the other trick … is just to slow down . |
| 23 | Press F10 to pop-up the on-line help |
| 24 | With regard to blackmail the Criminal Law Revision Committee did not want a test that the accused 's belief had to be reasonable because such could be out of line with the rest of the 1968 Act , yet Feely and Ghosh do just that in relation to dishonesty falling outside of s.2(1) . |
| 25 | Rejecting Tomlinson 's proposal to resite the Royal Brompton and Royal Marsden hospitals at the Charing Cross Hospital in west London . |
| 26 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 27 | So it is also the diet to choose if you have sensibly taken to heart the well-established benefits of reducing fat intake . |
| 28 | From his perspective , it was intended as much to control his own actions as to cow the lower classes of the street . |
| 29 | Three attempts to census the total population have been made after the breeding season , in July 1953 , January 1967 and 1968 , and July 1971 . |
| 30 | Given the current technical framework and the likely developments in the future , how can British broadcasting be financed in such a way as to brine the greatest enjoyment and pleasure to as many viewers and listeners as possible while at the same time fulfilling the public service obligation ? |