Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning from exile to head the newly formed Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , Prestes was imprisoned for nine years in 1935 for leading an unsuccessful uprising against the dictator Getúlio Vargas ( 1930-45 ) and on his release was elected to the Senate with the highest personal vote of any candidate . |
| 2 | Several , including Taki , returned from exile to contest the elections . |
| 3 | In a bid to make-up the missing funds Ian has written to more than 350 companies throughout County Durham . |
| 4 | Some attempts were made by political parties to annexe the cooperative representation movement , acts that were exploited by J C Carroll in a circular stating that resolutions in support of the Labour Party were being forwarded , together with proposals to finance political work by increasing contributions ( see interviews with S F Perry , Secretary of the Cooperative Representation Committee in Cooperative News 29 March 19 , 5 April 19 ) . |
| 5 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |
| 6 | He banishes Hippolytus and prays for his death , which is granted when Poseidon sends a sea monster to upturn the young man 's chariot . |
| 7 | Now that the season is ended it would be appropriate for your Finance Department to invoice the Regional Council for this sum . |
| 8 | I would have like to see some attempt to error-trap the data input routine , but help with record location is good and editing is easy , so reliance on the good sense of the computer operator should be a feasible proposition . |
| 9 | A misguided attempt to bombard the Castle with rocks conveyed by magically controlled Wyverns failed spectacularly in 1513 , while demonstrating the accuracy and numbers of the undead archers within the towers of the Castle . |
| 10 | Right , and stem the bleeding if you can see where it 's coming from attempt to stem the bleeding , bung the hole up , okay ? |
| 11 | This was Watson 's first known attempt to short-circuit the information filters that build up as organisations get larger . |
| 12 | Having proved he can hurt everyone , Clinton then has to do the Democrat thing , and attempt to fine-tune the economy . |
| 13 | Biya had announced the holding of the elections , originally scheduled to take place in March 1993 , in early September , in a move regarded by many observers as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition . |
| 14 | Since all four windings in one stack must be excited concurrently it is common practice to interconnect the windings to form one phase . |
| 15 | And they 've got to get to the chutes to dispositer the rubbish . |
| 16 | The book says if you keep yawing the aircraft from side to side the wheel may release . |
| 17 | Ma'am , may I have er pleasure to second the adoption of the accounts ? |
| 18 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 19 | Another booklet said that the mental health programme was a Communist-Jewish conspiracy to brain-wash the USA . |
| 20 | The 9 others in the dock face a combination of charges ranging from conspiracy to pervert the course of justice to assault . |
| 21 | The 9 others in the dock face a combination of charges ranging from conspiracy to pervert the course of justice to assault . |
| 22 | By integrating this last equation from r to infinity the time interval measured at a remote point where the gravitational potential is negligible can be compared with the same time interval measured at r : Re-expressing this result in terms of the gravitational potential gives . |
| 23 | It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date . |
| 24 | 4.33 Similarly , when lost earnings have meant that on return to work the plaintiff is free of tax for a period , having fallen below the level of earnings on which tax is payable , the tax that he has escaped during that period is a compensatory gain that must be taken into account in the assessment of his lost earnings ( Brayson v Wilmot-Breedon [ 1976 ] CLY 682 ) . |
| 25 | Syl was trying with kindling glances and doubles entendres to enthral the girl who worked in the gallery . |
| 26 | The probe map can easily be edited manually with a text editor to modifiy the positions of misplaced probes using additional information ( e.g. genetic map ) . |
| 27 | Rejecting Tomlinson 's proposal to resite the Royal Brompton and Royal Marsden hospitals at the Charing Cross Hospital in west London . |
| 28 | Perhaps most important of all , the RHA was not anticipating that there would be any serious opposition to the proposal to rundown the asylums . |
| 29 | A further paragraph in this message in which the State Department gave its views on the proposal to hand-over the Cossacks we shall come to in Chapter Six , but in respect of the Yugoslavs the State Department was ruling that , whether they were Chetniks or not in conformity with agreed allied policy they should not be handed over and the Supreme Allied Commander was to be left in no doubt of the State Department 's view . |
| 30 | It says any proposal to decommission the hospital will first have to go out to public consultation . |