Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was found that mothers preferred to grind up the rice prior to boiling , due to the scarcity of fuel — the ground rice requiring less boiling time and hence less fuel . |
| 2 | Shingle moved to the upper parts of the beach by either of these causes will pile up until the bank becomes so steep that stones start to roll down the beach , thus maintaining a steeper inshore section to most beaches . |
| 3 | Despite this there is a growing market in the sale of personal data , as companies and employers try to find out the details of our personal lives . |
| 4 | There is an increasing number of local authorities , universities and schools wishing to try out the artist-in-residence idea . |
| 5 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 6 | Cunningham ( 1982 ) reports that if parents decide to give up the baby permanently , it is ‘ for the parents who make it , the right decision , . |
| 7 | Vineyardlaced fields are brilliant and vibrant in promise and delivery ; dusky grey-green olive groves dress the hillsides and pines and cypresses appear to point out the landscape . |
| 8 | Two things spring to mind as and friends start to pick up the pieces and reorientate themselves . |
| 9 | Parents and doctors want to switch off the system which has kept him alive since the 1989 , but fear the legal implications . |
| 10 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 11 | One of the reasons why I was in favour of televising the House and Committees was that I thought that it might be a good idea for the public to see Standing Committees , with Ministers doing their mail and others trying to hold up the business . |
| 12 | the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when Guy Fawkes and others plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament . |
| 13 | Sussex , Hampshire and Dorset police reported numerous accidents and ferries had to ride out the high seas until winds dropped to safe levels . |
| 14 | Now banks and councils have to sort out the mess . |
| 15 | I have so many indelible impressions of that day : of cutting a soldier 's clothes off his body with scissors as he screamed with pain ; of a young man seizing my hand with an iron grip as he groaned ‘ I 'm dying — I ca n't bear the pain ’ ; of a baby girl less than two years old just staring ahead as the blood soaked into her clothes ; of the terrible vacant look caused by shell-shock on the faces of teenage soldiers ; of the stench of human excrement , urine and blood as the nurses and nuns struggled to clean up the patients . |
| 16 | But officials refused to hand over the dog until they vetted Mia in person to ensure she was suitable to have custody of the dog . |
| 17 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 18 | Because peasants had to pay back the sums of money which the government advanced on their behalf at 6 per cent interest over forty-nine years , it was to be a long time before their freedom was complete . |
| 19 | Soon after police arrived to carry out the order , violence spread , as students smashed and set fire to Mr Kamba 's Mercedes car , and police responded with tear gas and baton charges . |
| 20 | In hardly any time at all there was a satisfying crackling and an aromatic smell of burning wood as flames began to lick up the logs . |
| 21 | Huge gaps in provision of health care in the less profitable areas such as care of the elderly and people with psychological problems and learning difficulties will affect women disproportionately as patients and as carers forced to fill in the gaps . |