Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
| 2 | Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups . |
| 3 | ‘ I go to a lot of fellowship meetings and I see a counsellor once a week which gives me the tools to handle life on a day-to-day basis . ’ |
| 4 | Silver Reed tell me the double knit ribber does have a yarn holder and this holds the yarns you are not using at the end of the needle bed , making changing by hand easier . |
| 5 | A shop may have a mailing list of customers to whom the retailer sends information about new lines , special offers etc . |
| 6 | Often they hold the position of a ‘ trusted uncle ’ to whom the child feels loyalty . |
| 7 | Hopefully , this will prove to be a posthumous tribute to someone to whom the Trust have cause to be grateful , and are much saddened by his death . |
| 8 | It was also the start of three nights of concerts to celebrate the formation of the Natural Law Party , which is an offspring of the worldwide movement founded by the transcendental meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , from whom the Beatles received instruction in India in 1968 . |
| 9 | Within the polyp group , labelling pattern differences also emerged between the subgroup of patients in whom polyps recurred and those in whom the colon remained polyp free during the follow up period . |
| 10 | Instead , she was allowed to dominate the play , instead of Ken , or instead of Michael Bryant , around whom the action took place , the character who was being pulled in all directions . |
| 11 | So long as a majority of Northern Ireland voters prefer to remain with the United Kingdom , we must concentrate our energies on protection for those on whom the terrorists wage war . |
| 12 | This behavioural pattern gives them the chance to avoid detection initially by staying very still . |
| 13 | At light-speed , however , their very velocity gives them the ability to exert pressure . |
| 14 | For all of them the lungs push air through a narrow opening where it causes friction of various kinds . |
| 15 | ‘ For some children it would give them the opportunity to wreak mayhem , while other , more sensitive children would be deeply affected out of all proportion to what they had done . |
| 16 | Thus the expansion of larger manufacturing firms was designed to give them the opportunity to expand output with protection from fluctuations in demand given by avoiding any excessive accumulation of fixed costs . |
| 17 | Their views should be sought on the issues to be raised prior to a case conference to afford them the opportunity to seek advice and prepare their representations . |
| 18 | They help take students out of the confines of the classroom , while affording them the opportunity to practise pronunciation , grammar , structure and vocabulary . |
| 19 | I impressed on them the need to bring independence to Namibia and progress in South Africa . |
| 20 | We are committed to giving our viewers and listeners context — to give them the where-with-all to make sense of the world . |
| 21 | The Spastics Society has begun Alternative Lifestyles courses for disabled school leavers , ‘ providing positive alternatives to paid employment and giving them the confidence to take charge of their own lives ’ . |
| 22 | For most of them the railway symbolized dispossession and in some cases the collapse of their traditional economies . |
| 23 | Communist Party thought that how that by giving peasants their own land it would give them the incentive to increase production which |
| 24 | Second , instead of continuing with the constitutional convention whereby the Prime Minister has the right to choose a government and a Cabinet , there is a concern to transfer this to Members of Parliament when Labour is in office , giving them the right to elect Cabinet ministers . |
| 25 | Every cabin is fitted with private facilities and ample wardrobes , and the onboard activities give everyone the opportunity to take part in as much or as little as they want . |
| 26 | Instead , each person had ‘ full freedom of initiative in implementing the plan ’ and it was unacceptable to give ‘ everyone the right to spend money as he likes . ’ |
| 27 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 28 | If you were someone the Department needed information from , I could put in an expenses slip for five thousand , and Hilary Todd would sign it . ’ |
| 29 | He helped design and build a new bandstand , an open-air bathroom , a sunbathing shelter and a stage for the plays which the prisoners took part in . |
| 30 | But it may be argued that ‘ conduct ’ includes the circumstances in which the conduct takes place , including such matters as the time of day or night in addition to the ferocity of the attack . |