Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 's going to write to all the personnel directors in the big firms in Bridgeborough … she 's going to have outside teachers for the commercial subjects … a lecturer on current affairs … |
| 2 | Needlework and laundrywork provided an effective class and gender strategy , designed to prepared the prostitute for her correct place in the female labour force and to re-educate her into an approved feminine role . |
| 3 | Now going back to this handicraft , although I said I really did n't want to be committed to all the meetings , I 'm quite happy to carry on with the handicraft , providing you do n't expect me to turn up at every meeting . |
| 4 | In 1206 he helped to victual the fleet in preparation for John 's campaign in Gascony . |
| 5 | Although he was much attracted to both the inhabitants and the landscape of Wales , he still wrote no poetry until December 1875 , when the rector suggested that he commemorate the shipwreck of the Deutschland in the English Channel , where five German nuns were among those drowned . |
| 6 | The dun 's handler plucked a tail feather and held the down at the quill-end against a neck wound to staunch the blood . |
| 7 | But I apologise to all the people who may be getting fed up with it . |
| 8 | What is happening to all the waste ? |
| 9 | Ochirbat visited China in May 1990 [ see p. 37454 ] , and co-operation agreements in the educational and legal fields were signed on Nov. 26 and on July 4 , 1991 ; an agreement was signed on June 24 to increase to eight the border crossings between China and Mongolia from the hitherto sole crossing at Erenhot in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia . |
| 10 | I shall ensure that their names are added to all the complaints that I have been making . |
| 11 | The whole prison was in a confusion of sound , with the echo of slamming doors added to all the rest of the row . |
| 12 | Added to this the partner of the black hole must have swollen to the giant stage in order that material can be transferred rapidly enough to give an accretion disc that produces detectable numbers of X-rays . |
| 13 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |
| 14 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |
| 15 | This is due to factors relating to both the design of the dictionary from which the definitions are taken , and the purpose of the text being recognised . |
| 16 | An expert can be liable in contract or tort to both the parties who have referred an issue to him for decision : see 14.514.11 . |
| 17 | These , then , are some of the ideas that attach to all the world 's waterways . |
| 18 | Cows to be milked twice a day , every day , water to be carried to all the cattle , fodder to drag to the high pastures , hay to be cut if the weather was benevolent , dry stone walls to be repaired after the ravages of winter , cows to be calved and ewes to be lambed ( usually in the middle of the night ) , horses to harness , drains to be dug … the list is endless . |
| 19 | It tried to injunct the newspaper , on the ground that the papers contained military and diplomatic secrets , the disclosure of which would substantially damage the national interest . |
| 20 | Tenants tried to injunct the president of the RICS from appointing an independent surveyor to act as an expert in a rent review . |
| 21 | One of the leading practitioner 's texts on company law , Gore-Browne , argues that while the directors are now required to take employee interests into account , they are never permitted to subordinate the shareholders ' interests to them . |
| 22 | ‘ Listen to me carefully and pass on what I say to all the others . |
| 23 | He was replying to a query about how a letter correctly addressed to 27 The Grove , Hartlepool TS5 1PQ had been delivered to 27 The Grove , Hartlepool TS26 9LZ . |
| 24 | Classically one or other of these things happens to all the marbles that start out at the same speed ; either they all get over or they all fall back . |
| 25 | The question most often asked of A&R people is ‘ What happens to all the tapes sent in ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's what happens to half the answers . |
| 27 | When we worry too much about the way we are playing it inhibits us from listening to all the elements of the music . |
| 28 | As always , try to get this recording , start listening to all the elements , and check out the way the notes feel . |
| 29 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 30 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |