Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The witch-hunt then moved on to try to unseat the editor of Borba and it is clearly the intention of the Serbian nationalists , who have seized control of the Serbian Party , that they should control all newspapers and journals published in Belgrade , even if they are federal organs such as Borba . |
| 2 | Roadside checks have been carried out to try to discover the identity of a baby found dead in a ditch . |
| 3 | During the first visit , when Graham was just 13 months old , countless tests were carried out to try to find the cause of the illness . |
| 4 | It 's up to mothers to try to change the next generation — I will be teaching my son to wash , iron and darn . ’ |
| 5 | Student motivation is of prime importance and feedback as to progress increases the learning effect . |
| 6 | He did study law and acquired all the necessary qualifications but he became increasingly depressed — a condition which was not conquered until , at the age of 28 , he went back to university to study the science subjects he so loved . |
| 7 | Crown counsel never sought by reference to the May addendum to correct the witness or to clarify what she meant by ‘ one statement , ’ nor did he reveal to defence counsel the existence of the May addendum . |
| 8 | THE IMAM 'S CALL TO PRAYER MAKES THE VICAR TALK OF BEDLAM . |
| 9 | Then on Friday they would stream back to Cork from all over the province of Munster to clean themselves up , don their best clothes , and go to synagogue to greet the Sabbath . |
| 10 | We are going to go to parliament to ask the men in power there to force those wicked plantation owners to give up their slaves ! ’ |
| 11 | Accountability to Parliament requires the appointment of persons to the boards of nationalised industries to be , in law and in fact , the act of Government . |
| 12 | And having voted for party candidates , the electors expected the members returned to Parliament to support the program offered by their leaders at the election . |
| 13 | Last night Mr Yeltsin sent a formal message to parliament bemoaning the country 's Soviet-era constitution . |
| 14 | He would make an annual report to parliament giving the number of exemptions to the basic ‘ pain condition ’ which he had allowed in the year . |
| 15 | It was probably the affairs of the East India trade that propelled him into politics ; with the ‘ old ’ East India company still in existence , many members of the ‘ new ’ company sought election to Parliament to protect the company 's interests . |
| 16 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 17 | If the risk of this happening leaves the prosecutor up a gum tree , it is apparent that the Crown Prosecution Service may have an interest in ensuring that something has been done prior to trial to remove the need for a dock identification , whether the police can see a use for one or not . |
| 18 | In practice the question of the duration of the disability imposed by the springboard doctrine does not frequently arise because most cases concerning confidential information do not come to trial following the grant of an interlocutory injunction and it can therefore be assumed that either the parties settle the action or that interlocutory judgment is treated as final . |
| 19 | The judges ' decision to prevent Touvier from coming to trial reflects the long-held belief that it is unwise for France to dwell on this part of her history . |
| 20 | Give the flower to Mum to win the game . |
| 21 | But when it comes to the middle of the night , most of them prefer to leave it to mum to comfort the tiny tot when he 's having a tantrum . |
| 22 | With the opposition to uranium mining the relationship between foreign mining companies and Irish communities underwent a complete change . |
| 23 | Secondly the standard routes to chaos imply the existence of a well-defined onset of chaotic behaviour . |
| 24 | This oscillation is , in many cases , the beginning of a period-doubling cascade to chaos obeying the Feigenbaum scaling relations { 13 } , but the author is not aware of any proof that the map has this property . |
| 25 | Kingfisher is calling on shareholders for as much as £313 million in a two-part rights issue to part finance the deal . |
| 26 | Certainly scarcely any of the responses that referred to permeation discussed the difficulties of the concept with any sophistication . |
| 27 | In the past every member of the family would stir the pudding mixture from east to west to commemorate the three wise men 's journey . |
| 28 | Perhaps we will even be able to count on the support of Conservatives who have had a sudden conversion to freedom to undertake the activities of one 's choice in the countryside overriding all issues including wanton cruelty . |
| 29 | But the principle of user autonomy was limited with regard to freedom to leave the building during opening hours . |
| 30 | TOM McKean completed a wonderful weekend for Scottish athletics when he led from gun to tape to take the 800 metres crown . |