Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [indef pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No costs are allowed after receipt of such notice of proving anything the admission renders it unnecessary to prove ( Ord 9 , r 16 ) . |
| 2 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 3 | Instead of paying everybody the same state pension , the state should protect those in need adequately , and leave the rest to look after themselves . |
| 4 | Theists grow impatient with what they see as the reductionist behaviour of atheists , whom they accuse of disproving something the theists never claimed to believe in . |
| 5 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 6 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 7 | Would we , for example , be happy with giving someone the right to administer corporal punishment to us ( in public ) ? |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll know because I shall take great pleasure in telling everyone the truth ! ’ |
| 9 | Having worked on providing everything the dying person needs , the next step is to prepare to say goodbye . |
| 10 | ‘ This Mr Postman very good man , ’ said Mr Singh , who had not been invited to the ceremony , but was clearly looking forward to attending none the less . |
| 11 | This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it . |
| 12 | They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same . |