Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] of [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hardly flattering , with its account of the miserable climate — the vehement cold and the winds — and the forbidding landscape , with many rough mountains ( for it was to be another two centuries before Rousseau was to alert the attention of Europe to the beauty of mountain scenery ) . |
| 2 | And thirdly , we ask you to affirm the call of Peter for praying for in the ministry . |
| 3 | However , the Central Council recognized in April that a franchise change could not now be avoided , but resolved to support it only if the government would agree to restore the House of Lords at the same time . |
| 4 | I need say no more , except to underline the naivety of those who are prepared to champion the humanism of Marx in his attack on capitalism without recognising the inhumanism of Marx in proposing the socialist solution . |
| 5 | A UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman denied that the UK had a responsibility to monitor the composition of Exco after 1997 . |
| 6 | The residents of Kent are generally fairly prosperous and many are prepared to forgo higher growth in order to preserve the Garden of England from the depredations of developers . |
| 7 | This is why Jesus came , as the God-man , to redeem the evil of the man-God , who wanted to usurp the place of God in creation . |
| 8 | But while it is impossible to overstress the importance of Cézanne in the emergence of Cubism , it is wrong to see even the earliest Cubist painting simply as a direct continuation of him . |
| 9 | Finding himself in some difficulties , with his ship seized by order of the customs commissioners in Edinburgh , Bailie Hooks offered to try to carry the burgh of Wigtown for the candidate favoured by the Duke of Argyll in return for some ready cash and the expectation of assistance with the Court of Exchequer . |
| 10 | From then onwards , he knew himself commissioned to carry the way of Jesus beyond the particularity of Judaism to the Gentile world . |
| 11 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
| 12 | It is all too easy to see the development of France in terms of an inexorable and inevitable process of expansion from early beginnings in the Ile de France around Paris to the country we know today . |
| 13 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |
| 14 | As the cars of the beau monde arrived to see the spectacle of Mosley in action , their passengers discovered — as Lord Trenchard complained — that they were surrounded by a jeering crowd of protesters . |
| 15 | It 's great to see the faithfulness of God in their lives . |
| 16 | And that illustration offers the same image of an invisible power , and with this we can begin to see the spirit of God at work in the world . |
| 17 | The tendency to see the hand of God in every eventuality , even a trivial one , was sometimes carried to excessive lengths . |
| 18 | But if you want to see the beauty of Corsica without worrying about driving over a cliff edge , try The Trembler . |
| 19 | In the early stages , however , Commodore believes that it needs to ensure a broad range of titles are available both to support the positioning of CDTV as a family leisure platform and to generate the initial installed base which will itself encourage the third party publishing on which the future of CDTV depends . |
| 20 | BSDI made its motion on the basis of legal procedure claiming USL would first have to charge it with trade secret and copyright infringement , a charge USL subsequently made when it expanded its suit to include the University of California at Berkeley ( UX No 396 ) . |
| 21 | Using worship , dance , drama , testimony and preaching we began to communicate the truth of Jesus to the Hungarians . |
| 22 | Having holidayed previously in Sunwing Crete and enjoyed excellent standards of service and accommodation synonymous with the Sunwing name , we decided to try the island of Lanzarote under the same safe banner . |
| 23 | Currently there are two task groups , one monitoring the Ada 9X process ( the Ansi revision to the Ada standard ) and one holding events to encourage the use of Ada in the commercial application area . |
| 24 | The Soviet leadership had long hoped to persuade the West to accept the division of Europe as the price of détente . |
| 25 | He was equally generous to Cuthbert , pressing him to accept the bishopric of Lindisfarne in 685 and granting him and his church land in Cartmel and Carlisle in the north-west and in Crayke in the vale of York . |
| 26 | A year earlier , at Erfurt , Napoleon had agreed with the tsar to accept the right of Russia to Wallachia and Moldavia , but to leave Serbia within the Ottoman empire . |
| 27 | The failure of the Prussian and German people to follow the successful example of the French in a revolution from below meant that in 1870 they were forced to accept the unification of Germany by the reactionary Junker powers . |
| 28 | Yes , Clinton told the world 's press , he was personally committed to maintaining the ‘ special relationship ’ , and he was pleased to accept the advice of Major as the elder statesman . |
| 29 | In years to come the commercialisation of BR via sectorisation could well be seen by historians as important as grouping and nationalisation . |
| 30 | The Water of Leith rises in the Pentland Hills and flows for a distance of 36 kilometres to meet the Firth of Forth at Leith . |