Example sentences of "to [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 2 | THE ADJUSTER The ‘ loss adjuster ’ of the title is a melancholic insurance clerk who attempts to rebuilt the lives of his disaster-stricken clients from the record of old snapshots , his feelings gradually eroded by constant exposure to these images . |
| 3 | In September 1946 , the Secretary of State , James Byrnes , made a speech expressing America 's determination to rebuilt the economy of the American zone in Germany whether the Russians agreed or not . |
| 4 | THE BOARD of Irish Rail has decided to rebuilt the Carriage Shop at Inchicore Works , Dublin , which was completely destroyed by fire last September . |
| 5 | At a quarter to eleven the taxi came for me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State is therefore increasing from four to eight the number of full-time inquiry reporters in the Scottish Office Unit , the setting up of which has in itself reduced the time involved in arranging inquiries and submitting reports . |
| 8 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tenants tried to injunct the president of the RICS from appointing an independent surveyor to act as an expert in a rent review . |
| 11 | From 1950 to 1980 the tendency was for chronological studies to become increasingly sophisticated and more interdisciplinary so that this is a stricture on visualizing earlier work rather than the most recent . |
| 12 | From 1984 to 1986 the people of the territories watched uneasily as the mainstream PLO tried to recover its position by uniting with Jordan in an initiative intended to rescue the territories from occupation . |
| 13 | Of a planned 2,266 a total of 1,581 Cuban troops had been withdrawn during January , bringing to 31,138 the number withdrawn since January 1989 . |
| 14 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 15 | Usually , if the speed is low , you only have a few seconds either to lower the nose or to reduce the amount of airbrake to avoid a bad landing . |
| 16 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 17 | As for the export to the US of Magnox plutonium prior to 1971 the government has refused to say how much was exchanged . |
| 18 | Prior to 1971 the mixing was carried out under manual control by time-served master bakers controlling a team of operators . |
| 19 | This is not , however , the normal effect of a clause authorising the buyer to sub-sell the goods . |
| 20 | The equivalent uniform for officers was described in the 1985 Regulations as : ‘ … a single-breasted sack coat of dark-blue cloth or serge , with standing collar fastened … ‘ ; coat to close with a flap containing suitable concealed fastenings , the skirt to extend from one-third to two-thirds the distance from the hip-joint to the bend of the knee … a vertical opening at each side of the hip … ; shoulder straps and collar insignia to be worn . |
| 21 | When constructing scatterplots , make the Y -axis one-half to two-thirds the length of the X -axis ; as a guide , think of exercise paper , which is usually of these dimensions , turned on its side . |
| 22 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 23 | If a charge code is entered which is outside the range 1 to 9999 the prompt will be re-displayed . |
| 24 | Last year we went to the West cork Hotel in Skibbereen , the previous year the Imperial Hotel , Cork and previous to that the Gleneagles in Killarney . |
| 25 | You should aim to each the DH with the field ahead of you , in approximately one minute . |
| 26 | Turn left onto the path to each the tea hut at Ogwen ( 649 603 ) . |
| 27 | The lower carnitine concentrations seems to be secondary to the mucosal injury found in these patients , as a gluten free diet restored not only the injured mucosa , but also returned to normal the serum carnitine concentration . |
| 28 | From 1923 to 1925 the TUC had maintained a Joint Committee with it , but had discontinued its cooperation and attacked the Movement as Communist-dominated . |
| 29 | So you come home to a nice warm , brightly lit home with plenty of piping hot water to soak-away the dust of travel . |
| 30 | They raise to 50,000 the number of displaced people who have escaped clashes between those loyal to Bosnia and the pro-Serb Yugoslav army and Serbian militia groups . |