Example sentences of "moved [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front the narrow street boiled with a confusion of heaving thrusting sweating bodies ; behind , the crowd moved as the battling men staggered and shifted . |
| 2 | The Railway 's annual spring Enthusiasts ' Weekend — normally held two weeks before Easter — has been moved for the first time in its 20-year history . |
| 3 | If there is any doubt about the chosen criterion for distance moved during the first step then the second step can also be analysed to ensure that the motor maintains synchronism during that excitation interval . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy claimed the move would deliver to Solaris the three volume chips likely to survive : PowerPC , Sparc and Intel as SunSoft resources are moved off the new Intel Corp version , he said , they would be dedicated on the PowerPC — McNealy said this would be ready in late 1993 and SunSoft president Ed Zander immediately stepped up to contradict him , saying the date would more likely be early next year ; few details were available and it remains to be seen who would use it and how it will be sold . |
| 5 | As SunSoft resources are moved off the new Intel port , he said , they would be dedicated to the PowerPC . |
| 6 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 7 | McHale was pleased that his side finally moved off the 38-point mark after a three-week wait to break the 40 points barrier . |
| 8 | ‘ Some residents who were moved after the last round of home closures are now faced with losing their homes a second time , ’ said Mr Common . |
| 9 | Major has swiftly moved towards the middle ground of politics . |
| 10 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 11 | During the course of the 20th century , the general statutory approach has moved towards the gradual assimilation of conditional sales and hire purchase . |
| 12 | Troop Sergeant Haines brought up the rear as the raiders moved towards the Old Entrance lock bridge ( 'G' ) but had first to swing north round the buildings on the east of the basin . |
| 13 | Some Tories would argue that this is because the successors to Mrs Thatcher 's clear-cut brand of Conservatism have moved towards the soft centre and have floundered in the quicksands of consensus . |
| 14 | Another of the Fellowship slowly moved towards the battling Time Lord . |
| 15 | Hu Yaobang apparently lost the patronage of Deng Xiaoping at this time and for him too the future looked uncertain as China 's supreme ruler moved towards the conservative side . |
| 16 | She watched as the town moved past the grimy train windows and Emily felt that she was tugging up her very roots . |
| 17 | He dealt swiftly with the question and answer session , then moved onto the real business of the day meeting the voters on the streets of Darlington . |
| 18 | Eventually she was moved onto the General ward . |
| 19 | In 1938 the Christies moved into the ground-floor flat of 10 Rillington Place ( later demolished ) in west London , where Christie found employment as a clerk . |
| 20 | As the sun climbed higher , people moved into the narrowing band of shade along the wall of the railway shed , and when that shrank to nothing , they stretched sheets between the walls of baggage and crawled beneath them . |
| 21 | In the north of Eritrea , EPLF forces moved into the regional capital of Asmara on May 24 , and took Assab from demoralized government troops on May 25 . |
| 22 | ‘ The residents who have moved into the first houses are the envy of everybody . |
| 23 | We had moved into the new factory in June 1979 and the first effect of our association with GEC was an input of capital to purchase badly needed equipment . |
| 24 | No new date has been set , but it will be some months after the children have moved into the new school . |
| 25 | The working version of the machine , built to celebrate the bicentenary of the mathematician 's birth , will be moved into the new Information Age gallery which will replace the current computer gallery . |
| 26 | As households moved into the new stock , better pre-1914 dwellings became available for rent by poorer households . |
| 27 | The height of the ridge is apparently related to the amount of sediment being moved into the adjacent subduction zone where lithosphere is being subducted at a rate of about 65 mm a- 1 . |
| 28 | I was relatively successful and after three or four months moved into the Criminal Investigation Department , as a detective constable , pursuing local villains for the thefts , shopbreakings , burglaries , and petty frauds which were our bread and butter . |
| 29 | A Lancashire miner 's daughter , whose grandmother ‘ was very sprightly , very clean … very like prigmeat , you know , everything in its place ’ , remembers how one of her brothers moved into the next-door house when he married , and ‘ they helped with them when they were older . ’ |
| 30 | No , I should not have moved into the second Person . |