Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been the first to pay tribute to improvements in productivity in the coal industry , but they must continue if the industry is to provide , as I believe that it can , the bulk of supplies to fossil-fuel generators in the years to come . |
| 2 | has outlined the complex legalities involved in trying to stop emp employers imposing changes to contracts of employment against the wishes of the employee . |
| 3 | The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense . |
| 4 | Teachers were mainly in favour of a national curriculum , but often distressed and angered by the frequent changes made to programmes of study by the cumbersome assessment procedures and by the increasing constraints being imposed by the Department of Education — especially in English . |
| 5 | It certainly sees urban concentrations as resulting from industrialisation and capitalism : but it rapidly places these considerations to one side and looks to interactions between people as the prime explanation . |
| 6 | Despite a run of small harvests , the cellars in Reims and Épernay were brimming , and it was estimated that had sales maintained their 1932 level , the Champagne houses possessed sufficient stock in hand to tide over sales for the next thirty-three years . |
| 7 | It is , therefore , our intention to seek to increase the range of NVQs offered by the Board and to market them to employers in co-operation with the Chamber movement . |
| 8 | He then spent several frustrating years as a military attache in Brazil , a move rumoured to have been spearheaded by his superiors fearful of their own positions , before returning to Moscow as head of the Surveillance Unit . |
| 9 | Thanks to Zhukov , critical Khrushchev supporters were brought to Moscow in time for the Central Committee meeting which then overturned the Politburo 's verdict . |
| 10 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 11 | The so-called Massive Privatization Programme was expected to be presented to parliament for approval in the autumn . |
| 12 | In 1678 he took out a patent for a simple ‘ engine ’ turning wheels for spinners of flax , and recommended county workhouses to Parliament in Provision for the Poor . |
| 13 | Although this is true of the appropriation accounts presented to Parliament in respect of the NHS as a whole , the way that the constituent health service bodies account for capital has been the subject of substantial change . |
| 14 | The whole thing seethed , illusion and allusion swinging from branch to branch like gibbons in the treetops . |
| 15 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 16 | In September government troops recaptured Buka Island ( north of Bougainville ) , allegedly in response to requests for assistance from the islanders themselves . |
| 17 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 18 | responding to requests for information from the general public on issues with which the Campaign has a special interest or expertise ; |
| 19 | Social fund officers are expected to give high priority to requests for loans for the above purposes . |
| 20 | THE hamlet of Gawthrop ( the village of the crows in Old Norse ) clusters round the road that makes up from Dentdale to course down Barbondale below the impressive sweep of Barkin Fell . |
| 21 | Against all expectation , all possibility , had my brother managed to make his way here , and cross to Moila in spite of the storm ? |
| 22 | I 'm not at all sure I 'm fit to drive but I have to if I 'm going to get to Inverness in time for the connecting flight . |
| 23 | The new interface will give applications direct access to objects in Objectivity/DB via the CORBA protocol . |
| 24 | Two generals and 19 other officers became the first soldiers to be brought to trial in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt , when they appeared before a seven-member military court on May 8 on charges of mutiny and murder . |
| 25 | JAMAICAN umpire Steve Bucknor changed his attitude to trial by television on the second day of the second cricket Test between India and South Africa in Johannesburg yesterday . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the line was built and opened officially in 1868 and there were plans to extend it to Bala by tunnelling under the mountains . |
| 27 | Cache sizes will expand to 1Mb per processor with the next generation of memory chips . |
| 28 | Earlier , in one of the best speeches by an outgoing party chairman in recent years , Anne McGuire added her voice to chorus of attacks on the SNP 's action . |
| 29 | He was delivering milk to houses in Cheltenham in the early hours of this morning , when 2 men pounced on him , demanding cash . |
| 30 | We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species . |