Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 2 | Clive 's estimate was that the Company and various private individuals made £3m. out of the change of rulers . |
| 3 | TOP builder Wimpey was fined £4,000 yesterday over the death of a worker who fell more than 70ft to his death . |
| 4 | The indications between the centre-line and full scale deflection are marked by the inner circle and 4 dots , each representing 2° up to the full scale deflection of 10° each side of the centreline . |
| 5 | Pondering over the cycle 's military potential , whether or not it might ‘ mitigate the decline of the rural population ’ , fearing that it would tempt people away from the churches , but rejoicing that it would lure others away from ‘ demonstrations in Hyde Park or low-class places of amusement ’ , The Times thus moved its discussion skilfully between different planes of anxiety . |
| 6 | We forgot the size of the 8 per cent swing required to give Labour an overall majority ; that the Tories had held their private leadership election 18 months before ; that recessions steel hearts rather than change them , driving people back to the devil they know , to secure their own base-line rather than pushing them towards adventurous alternatives . |
| 7 | Often the set lunches are so cheap , in fact , that they work as a loss leader — a taster to tempt people back in the evening . |
| 8 | I think this is not just a problem in Kent , I think that there has been a erm an undue er move in this direction nationally , er for what ever reasons public policy was very much about keeping people out of the courts , er I suspect that this is er er a policy which is of doubtful philosophical underpinning . |
| 9 | And that is the high unit cost end , with the people who move into nursing homes , and obviously our highest cost , with the exception of certain very complex cases on physical disability , erm , where we , we do occasionally get higher cost packages keeping people out of the nursing home . |
| 10 | Chapman saw that floodlighting , by enabling games to be played in the evening , would win people away from the rival attractions of dog racing ( ’ it does not make the slightest appeal to me ’ ) and the speedway . |
| 11 | I took a friend with me who had caught chub only from the river Dane where the average size was 1½lb . |
| 12 | To do this , Mascot uses Dynamic Data Exchange links , which extracts data directly from the accounting system and transfers it a spreadsheet , such as Microsoft Corp 's Excel . |
| 13 | The Vantage is top of the market stuff , costing £150,000 even for the most basic model . |
| 14 | And the grandma advised people still on the waiting list : |
| 15 | And the grandma advised people still on the waiting list : ‘ Do n't give up . |
| 16 | ‘ It will be a varied programme with the emphasis on quality and wooing people back into the theatre , ’ he says . |
| 17 | This counterfeiter of creation is always happy to lead people away from the real Jesus Christ . |
| 18 | Along the way Aileen told people all about the charity and the work they do for children with terminal or life threatening illnesses , she also explained just what the charity had done for her family when they were faced with such a situation . |
| 19 | The problems of these rural areas have ‘ pushed ’ or repelled people away from the country , while the towns and cities of central Scotland and England have ‘ pulled ’ or attracted them . |
| 20 | Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances . |
| 21 | Surely that 'll bring people back into the theatre it would obviously pay the artist it would also bring money into the theatre if the theatre could actually charged for them to do them . |
| 22 | This style of dressing works well for the heartier textured salad items such as artichoke , potato and the crisper leaves such as iceberg , chicory , frisée or romaine . |
| 23 | ‘ I should think she 'd rather have had sixpence instead of the fond farewell . |
| 24 | Tomorrow night we move away from the Chilean coast and travel 13,500ft up into the Bolivian Andes , where Oxfam is helping the indigenous Indian people who are struggling to make a living now that their mines have closed down and their farmland been destroyed by drought . |
| 25 | Because its results were not up to expectations Rentokil is paying $2m less for the business than planned . |
| 26 | They are successful and helpful devices to help people out of the isolation of unemployment . |
| 27 | City streets have also provided Matthew Carr with material , though now he has abandoned his old habit of pulling people in off the pavement , ‘ as it can be taken the wrong way ’ . |
| 28 | Look people straight in the eye when they are talking to you and check if what they say stays in your mind longer . |
| 29 | Erm I mean obviously you 've got people up in the flats who at times , hit absolute desperate rock-bottom situations . |
| 30 | However , many employers arranged after April 1975 to buy people back into the graduated scheme . |