Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French government announced that it would take the strongest measures to ensure that Aoun met the conditions attached to his asylum , which included refraining from making public statements on political issues . |
| 2 | Although the concessions met the demands made at the start of an unprecedented national protest campaign on June 10 , they now failed to satisfy the opposition , who responded by continuing to call for Ratsiraka 's resignation . |
| 3 | The review may be evaluated generally by how effectively and efficiently it met the objectives set out in Document 1 , on the basis of which it had been negotiated . |
| 4 | The 1893 Act allowed institutions a Parliamentary grant per pupil , but only if the institution/asylum met the standards set by the periodic visits of Her Majesty 's Inspector , so in order to meet these standards and obtain their grants , schools had to improve on the conditions in which the pupils were taught . |
| 5 | The first personal computer program which met the standards expected of today 's products actually ran on the IBM PC and was called DO-IT , but that 's another story . |
| 6 | The road pitched and banked over and around waves of sand and , periodically , I met the workmen busy with their shovels . |
| 7 | The EP was ‘ brought in ’ in response to the teachers ' perception that they lacked the skills to manage George 's behaviour . |
| 8 | Edward probably realized , after the failure of the Rheims campaign , that he lacked the resources to mount the kind of campaign that would be necessary to compel the French to accept the Treaty of London . |
| 9 | In the discussion of mechanisms for conflict settlement , some delegates argued that the OAU lacked the resources to create a continent-wide peacekeeping force . |
| 10 | In the discussion of mechanisms for conflict settlement , some delegates argued that the OAU lacked the resources to create a continent-wide peacekeeping force . |
| 11 | The Telegraph , too , had never diversified , and it lacked the resources to modernize . |
| 12 | It had been a recurrent problem of Edward 's early years that he lacked the resources to reward all his leading supporters , and by 1469 he was left with very little room for manoeuvre . |
| 13 | It had been a recurrent problem of Edward 's early years that he lacked the resources to reward all his leading supporters , and by 1469 he was left with very little room for manoeuvre . |
| 14 | Earlier , he had complained that he lacked the resources to investigate all the allegations of corruption against government officials . |
| 15 | But , Vinny Samways apart , they lacked the resources to overcome a Forest side , who gradually looked more like the team we know they can be — one which has won this competition in its various forms twice in the past four years . |
| 16 | Korda lacked the resources to lure away a significant number of Rank 's key directors . |
| 17 | Astronomers have long suspected that flares also produce neutrons that reach the Earth 's orbit , but they lacked the instruments needed to detect them . |
| 18 | ‘ No , more than that — a man who lacked the guts to face up to his responsibilities . |
| 19 | Police evidence to the Lords ' Committee had already shown that parish vestry councils were generally incompetent , badly run and lacked the funds to embark on private prosecutions . |
| 20 | ‘ We abhor the principles outlined in this motion , ’ the committee 's new motion reads . |
| 21 | It fits the principles set out by Conrad ( 1980 ) in allowing language stimulation by making available a number of forms of code . |
| 22 | This was the first she had heard of it , for while Constance was away she had not felt able to accommodate the horrors revealed in the local rag and had read only the advertisements and the page called ‘ Eating Out ’ . |
| 23 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
| 24 | At the outbreak of war , the casual wards had been closed by order of the Ministry of Health , and the master reported to the committee that on August 31st 1939 , he had received instructions from the medical officer of health to evacuate , 116 patients and children to other institutions within the county to accommodate the patients evacuated from London hospitals . |
| 25 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 26 | If business growth is to be achieved , in what is essentially a depressed market , it is vital that we build our market share while aggressively pursuing the opportunities offered by new product developments . |
| 27 | Before the Act , section 5 of the 1936 Act was supplemented by a miscellany of powers to be found in local legislation , which empowered the police to deal with minor nuisances and acts of hooliganism . |
| 28 | The new catchment boards ' first decade of river clearance was followed by the outbreak of war , during which Parliament empowered the boards to carry out even more extensive work at the request of county war agricultural executive committees . |
| 29 | Over the next four pages , our own walking , talking Reading Festival , KEITH CAMERON , raids the archives to present an affectionate look at two decades of open air guitar . |
| 30 | Nor do the wages from the plantations compensate the families left in the villages for this loss of labour . |