Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.59 The third ground for defending an application is that the defendant from whom the interim payment is sought is not a person who appears to the court to fall within one of the categories listed in Ord 29 , r11(2) , namely : ( a ) a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim ; ( b ) a public authority ; or ( c ) a person whose means and resources are such as to enable him to make the interim payment . |
| 2 | My thanks to David Bogie , studio manager and Fish for their time and patience — and for allowing me to visit the Funny Farm . |
| 3 | With the leave of the House , it remains for me only to thank the Select Committee on Energy for allowing us to hear the Government 's reply . |
| 4 | ‘ I told you , Murphy , that although I am immensely grateful to you for helping me to repair the shed to make a hen house and for finding me the things I need , these are my hens and I shall look after them . |
| 5 | The three , all members of the legislature 's trade and industry committee , were accused of having accepted $60,000 from the Korean Automobiles Manufacturers ' Association in return for helping it to gain the National Assembly 's approval for a package of state aid . |
| 6 | skin up The Clinique Skin Survival Kit is handy for the gym , for travelling or just for helping you to keep the bathroom tidy . |
| 7 | It is about helping them to recognise the resources that they have to offer one another and to use them effectively in response to individual interests and learning needs . |
| 8 | Kenneth drove me here last Sunday after helping me to load the car with clothes , shoes , video recorder , sound equipment , books , photos , kettle , mug , hot-water-bottle ( never go anywhere without it ) and all the required paraphernalia of a season away from home . |
| 9 | Fennel can be bought as tea bags and one of these can be used instead of half a teaspoon and the bag left hanging in the tank for one day after using it to make the remedy . |
| 10 | This morning , he would n't take no for an answer , and , after urging her to consider the idea and bringing her out here as confidently as if the whole thing were quite settled in his mind , he was now taking the ground from under her feet by playing devil 's advocate . |
| 11 | Female visitors were cheap , a point in their favour which continued to be emphasised as late as 1920 , when the Local Government Board considered the possibility of using them to inspect the homes of widows drawing poor relief . |
| 12 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 13 | The Jungian concept of synchronicity was much on his mind because he was toying with the idea of using it to underpin the narrative structure of London . |
| 14 | He was told that the government department , with general responsibility for arts policy , has no means of helping him to reclaim the bronzes from the Ariadne Galleries in New York . |
| 15 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 17 | Encouraging staff to appreciate the cost of information goes some way towards helping them to quantify the value of information . ’ |
| 18 | Preparing potatoes at the sink with her back turned to the child can be a helpful way of encouraging her to ignore the child during eating . |
| 19 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 20 | Quantum mechanics may be peculiar but not to the extent of allowing one to obtain the square root of minus one as the result of an experiment ! |
| 21 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 22 | Tins also have the disadvantage of allowing you to contaminate the paint with dirty brushes . |
| 23 | Er it was hardly ever er a mother was just sort of given something to ease the pain . |
| 24 | She accused me of instructing them to dig the wrong grave , which I did n't and I immediately defended myself and said : ‘ Mary , I did not . |
| 25 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 26 | Notice , too , that your choice between active or passive has the effect of enabling you to move the " actor " and the " acted upon " around in the sentence , most often either to the beginning or to the end ( as in the " Jane Austen " example above ) . |
| 27 | We have now turned almost full circle , but instead of employing someone to bait the swim , we have turned to a choice of mechanical devices which do a similar job . |
| 28 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 29 | Are you tired of wondering what to give the family for dinner . |
| 30 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |