Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By way of a contrast to the more usual content found between these covers , let me take you to Georgian England at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century . |
| 2 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 3 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 4 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 5 | They buttressed me to some degree from the isolation I felt . |
| 6 | Mr. Whitaker also referred me to some passages in the speeches of Viscount Finlay and Lord Dunedin in Weld-Blundell v. Stephens [ 1920 ] A.C. 956 , 966–968 , 976 . |
| 7 | Take them to Boots and Help the Aged will distribute them to needy people around the world . |
| 8 | Nowadays you are careful to address Interpreter Ni , Professor Chen and Party Secretary Yang by their handle as well as their name — and can cause serious insult by forgetting to do so or by introducing them to each other in the wrong order . |
| 9 | Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory . |
| 10 | Putting them to one side from the ordinary trainee where you could expect jobs and N V Q's to be the outcome , and for them to be treated as a special case . |
| 11 | However , to limit them to twelve officers in the Rathcoole district made no sense . |
| 12 | Head office could ensure goal congruence by working out a masterplan and then issuing detailed instructions to each division : make this many units , transfer them to that division in the following numbers at the following prices . |
| 13 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 14 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 15 | Other programmes are ‘ slipped to the right ’ , which means delaying them to later years in the Costing ; and the rest are pruned in size or cut out all together . |
| 16 | To build on the EC 's Association Agreements with Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland so that we can welcome them to full membership by the year 2000 . |
| 17 | You will have to be ruthless if you find that they do n't press successfully , and either move them to another site in the garden , or give them to someone else . |
| 18 | The only major difference between such accounts and pluralist accounts is that pluralists tend to describe the specific political pressures without attempting to relate them to broader theories of the relationship between state , society and economy . |
| 19 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |
| 20 | Er , just a couple of announcements colleagues , if er , those delegates who actually smoke , if you 've got any Embassy cigarette coupons , could you pass them to any members of the Northern Region . |
| 21 | So do n't throw them away colleagues , hand them to any delegate from the Northern Region . |
| 22 | Cut lengths of ribbon , and stitch them to either side of the fabric at the top . |
| 23 | The doctor had opened the door suddenly , was walking in with two nurses , directing them to either side of the bed as the heart machine flashed and beeped alarmingly . |
| 24 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 25 | Perhaps his father had the kind of job which took him to many parts of the country , and possibly he took the boy with him , I do not know . |
| 26 | This sense of perspective led him to lucid conclusions about the inescapable reality of decolonization and the long-term interests of France , which were better served by accepting decolonization than by resisting it . |
| 27 | Prost 's victory lifted him to 47 points at the head of the drivers ' championship while Brazilian Ayrton Senna , the McLaren driver who was forced to retire after running second until the closing laps , remains second in the title race with 42 points . |
| 28 | Bill McGuire 's studies will take him to various volcanos around the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans . |
| 29 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |
| 30 | He is now on his eighth passport , having left England 82 times on trips that have taken him to most countries in the world . |