Example sentences of "[verb] to mark the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you do n't need to mark the one twenty on I mean you can do if you like . |
| 2 | Ostensibly the visit was designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between China and Japan . |
| 3 | It is clear that some variables in English do function in a very general way : for example , variation between the alveolar and velar nasal in the present participle ending ( ing ) is universal and can be said to mark the whole English-speaking world as a single speech community . |
| 4 | Twenty-four of France 's better-known writers have decided to mark the new year by launching a national petition against the reforms . |
| 5 | Midland Air Museum at Coventry have produced a limited edition ( 500 ) print to mark the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Gloster E28/39 — a lovely watercolour by Ken Aitken . |
| 6 | Single strokes are often used to mark the principal accents in the lighter forms of music . |
| 7 | Here imperial symbols are used to mark the New Year ; seasonal gifts appear in the background . |
| 8 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 9 | Although the medal was minted to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the war , it received virtually no publicity . |
| 10 | There had been press reports in early October that a group of fanatical Jewish extremists , the Temple Mount Faithful , planned to mark the Jewish festival of Succoth ( Tabernacles ) on Oct. 8 by attempting to lay a cornerstone for a new Temple . |
| 11 | Cut this piece to length and push into the two bends to mark the correct length to cut off the downpipe . |
| 12 | The ribbon is cut to mark the official opening of the Tencel plant in Mobile , Alabama , USA . |
| 13 | AS one of the many who helped defend Malta when the island was under siege in World War II , I was interested to read ( Echo March 19 ) that the Maltese Government is keen to issue medals to those involved to mark the 50th anniversary of the award of the G.C. to the island . |
| 14 | In an interview , Brown said the National Gallery had originally hoped to mark the 2500th anniversary of Kleisthenes ' democratic reforms in fifth-century BC Athens with a one-object exhibition of the Kritios Boy . |
| 15 | If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed . |
| 16 | ‘ Today we have one problem — you have to mark the other guys or we 'll lose . |
| 17 | The body was found on the day that celebrations were held to mark the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Sharpness to Gloucester canal . |
| 18 | At a conference in The Hague , the Netherlands , on June 18-19 , 1990 , over 120 new European research projects were launched to mark the fifth anniversary of the Eureka programme . |
| 19 | ‘ I wanted to mark the ten years since the Middlesbrough office opened , ’ he said . |
| 20 | FRANCE 'S decision to sweep away exchange controls to mark the Euro decade of the 1990s is important enough to have caused even Mrs Thatcher to give some ground in her opposition to the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 21 | This exhibition has been sponsored jointly by An Post and the Office of Public Works to mark the 75th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising . |
| 22 | Writing in a report published to mark the 20th anniversary , Mostafa Tolba , the organization 's secretary-general since 1975 , complains that apathy about the condition of the environment persists and that there is a lack of political will to tackle serious environmental problems , despite the growth of awareness among the general public . |