Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is our school a good school ? ’ is unlikely to draw many negative responses or to provide much insight into the sources of satisfaction or dissatisfaction . |
| 2 | After quite a few practice turns , the last child , or to make this part of the game quicker the last two children , to sit down are out . |
| 3 | However a third party has normally no right to demand performance of an agreement , or to make any claim in the event of breach . |
| 4 | In these units , students are encouraged to experience , at first hand , specific theatre practices , and to relate this work to the Core Studies work on the Theory and Practice of Modern Theatre . |
| 5 | The original research was designed to investigate the subsequent labour-market behaviour of a sample of steelworkers made redundant from the British Steel Corporation , Port Talbot , South Wales , and to relate this behaviour to the type of domestic organisation of their households and the character of their local social networks . |
| 6 | This demands not only the skills of counselling previously outlined , but the ability to referee and control the expression of different and conflicting attitudes , to give equal time and importance to everyone 's point of view , and to encourage each member of the family not only to explain their own feelings , but to listen to each other . |
| 7 | Back in Britain , men were called to arms ; everyone was issued with a gas mask ; sandbags were provided to protect specified buildings and to provide some shelter against the expected air attacks , and provision of Air Raid Shelters was hastened . |
| 8 | Autumn-sown wheat ( and other cereals ) should have a rough seed-bed to avoid soil capping , particularly on silty soils , and to provide some protection to the seedlings from icy winds . |
| 9 | In either case , it will be necessary to attach a small microphone somewhere below the child 's chin and to provide some arrangement for the child to carry around the radio transmitter or the small tape recorder . |
| 10 | As a result , much of the work of contemporary assemblies should be viewed in the context of institutions struggling to adapt to massively changed social and world conditions and to impose some check upon the burgeoning executive bureaucracies . |
| 11 | Should not one of the objectives of our privatisation programme be to give British Coal , or whoever the private company may be , the freedom to produce electricity from its coal and to sell that electricity through the national grid ? |
| 12 | The great advantage which officers of East Indiamen possessed over their counterparts in less favoured ships was their customary right to own a certain proportion of the cargo carried , and to sell that share at the end of the voyage for their own profit . |
| 13 | Allowing small farmers in the countryside to be responsible for their own plots of land and to sell any surplus above the state quota on the free market and the encouragement of small-scale private enterprises in urban areas brought about great changes in Chinese society . |
| 14 | At some stage in almost every case it is worth while pausing to review transactions , to consider afresh the erstwhile or present relationship between client and parents and to apply this consideration to the current social worker-client relationship . |
| 15 | It aims to use scientific method to understand the fundamental processes of biology , agriculture , the environment and economics and to apply this understanding to the sustainable management of the world 's biological resources , including the provision of food , fibre , energy and natural products , for the benefit of man while at the same time developing methods to limit , control or eliminate conflicts of interest between the welfare of mankind and the well-being of animals , plants and the environment . |
| 16 | Britain drew different conclusions — to continue its imperial withdrawal and to avoid any repetition of the UK-USA conflict of 1956 . |
| 17 | Moreover to advocate exposing French tradition to foreign literatures , citing Whitman , Williams , and Pound , as seminal influences , to translate them in addition to David Jones or Basil Bunting , and to deny any allegiance to the French poetic mainstream is received in some circles with incomprehension . |
| 18 | Large numbers of calculations are to be done , so that the design aim is to choose a word size which gives suitable precision , and to do all arithmetic in the most efficient way , using fixed or floating.point binary format . |
| 19 | This polarisation of attitudes was perhaps unfortunate since there had been signs of a certain willingness on the part of the Department to reconsider the validity of their ideas and to give some weight to the social issues behind the public reaction to the housing policy . |
| 20 | a duty of confidentiality — each particular arm of a conglomerate is under a duty to retain confidential information obtained from a corporate client , known as the beneficiary , and to use that information for the benefit of the client and not for its own or some other person 's benefit . |
| 21 | When children entered school the task of the teacher was to measure the strengths and the weaknesses of each child and to use this yardstick as the basis for her teaching . |
| 22 | In part the attempt by the Norfolk justices to appropriate canon law matters to the king 's competence was all of a piece with other measures which the king and his judges were taking to suppress rival jurisdictions and to reduce all justice within the realm to the crown . |
| 23 | An incompetent head is one who fails to master the task of reconciling a management plan with a financial plan , who fails to communicate and to ensure enough understanding for the financial plan with his or her teacher colleagues and who is unable to engage with governors at a level where there is both trust and understanding . |
| 24 | To merge AW 's existing North West England operations into those of Palatine and to build that company on the basis of its own regional tradition , supported by continuing local beer production . |
| 25 | They continue to sing the praises of the boisterous Orc gods Gork and Mork in their barbarous fashion , holding midnight feasts to consume gallons of Brew and to fight each other under the watchful eyes of their crude idols . |
| 26 | " To provide continuous and systematic scrutiny of the activities of the public service and to base that scrutiny on the subject areas within the responsibility of the individual Government Departments . " |
| 27 | To assist with the addressing of this problem and to get some consistency into the approach it is intended to bring together the experience gained , so far , in the form of small manuals and guidelines . |
| 28 | So , charity workers , up and down the country are asking you to put your feet up after London , take a rest and then come back eager to set new personal bests on the road/track and to raise more cash for the needy . |
| 29 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 30 | It is important to obtain specific legal advice in all circumstances to protect the firm 's position and to minimise any likelihood of the arrangements entered into being set aside by any ‘ disgruntled ’ investor after the event . |