Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 2 | Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school . |
| 3 | WE TUMBLE straight back on the enormo-bus after the gig and travel for five hours to New York in preparation for playing at the NY Academy two nights later . |
| 4 | A speech by the prince about caring for the terminally ill sounded so close to his wife 's concerns she could have written it herself . |
| 5 | In The Form the prose style shows Rolle at his best embodying his sense of " the expanding of love beyond desire " : The first sentence uses the inexpressibility topos — the rhetorical trick for gesturing towards the ineffable . |
| 6 | Scott also suggested that in addition to carrying out some exercise or activity focused around one of the essential concepts , pupils should be given the opportunity for reflecting on the thinking processes they have gone through . |
| 7 | Taking things for granted or failing to seek new understanding indicates a lost opportunity for adding to the store of experience . |
| 8 | The general case for exporting for the good of the economy and for the good of individual companies has been covered , together with an overview of organisational and cultural issues . |
| 9 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 10 | A case for staying at The Lygon Arms . |
| 11 | If this transpires to be the case for binding of the intact 140k protein during VZV infection , numerous possible functional implications of such a broad-ranging conformational effect can be envisaged , including modification of the interactions of transcription factors with DNA or with other proteins , or clearing the promoter of non-specific DNA binding proteins . |
| 12 | If the family finances have been badly affected by the patient 's stroke , you may have to go to work as well as making provision for caring for the patient . |
| 13 | However , there is a serious difficulty about adding to the number of MPs linked to the government . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 15 | Nails lit a cigarette , an excuse for staying in the warehouse . |
| 16 | Through some judicious editing of the contributions of Shinehead and Teddy Pendergrass , Kaye managed to shoehorn the material into two CDs , utilising the maximum 74 and a half minutes available on both ( the excessive running time provided a convenient excuse for dispensing with the need for a vinyl format ) . |
| 17 | Through some judicious editing of the contributions of Shinehead and Teddy Pendergrass , Kaye managed to shoehorn the material into two CDs , utilising the maximum 74 and a half minutes available on both ( the excessive running time provided a convenient excuse for dispensing with the need for a vinyl format ) . |
| 18 | At the other end of the scale the ‘ When in Rome do as the Romans ’ is no excuse for dropping to the level of a curse between every other word that is met in some otherwise honest circles . |
| 19 | Hence , his excuse for coming to the cottage was also a fake . |
| 20 | Bush called for greater funding for housing for the poor and for inner city redevelopment . |
| 21 | In the process , the project should generate an appropriate framework for thinking about the provision of business support services which could in principle be applied to any locality . |
| 22 | The DPP 's worries are premature : the KMT 's aim in the talks is merely to establish a framework for dealing with the problems that crop up between two commercial partners whose business is booming , but whose governments have no relations . |
| 23 | To this end the TUC calls for the negotiation of technology agreements ( TAs ) which would establish new procedures for discussing technological change and a comprehensive framework for bargaining over the effects of change on working conditions . |
| 24 | President Menem , who was not obliged by the Constitution to call an election , was reported as saying that one was not necessary since his brother was Duhalde 's " natural successor as established by the law " . |
| 25 | Even as heir-apparent , he had been in correspondence with Louis XVI of France concerning his plans for reorganising the army , and the overthrow of the French monarchy in the year of his accession , 1789 , did not diminish his enthusiasm for learning from the west . |
| 26 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 27 | I have no enthusiasm for returning to the sort of legislation that applied at that time . |
| 28 | In December 1857 the new head of the Third Department , V. A. Dolgorukov , revealed an unlikely enthusiasm for cooperating with the liberal intelligentsia when he asked the Slavophile Aleksandr Koshelev to send him his hard-hitting " Memoranda on the Dissolution of the Enserfed Estate in Russia " . |
| 29 | For all index-linked stocks issued prior to January , 1987 , it is necessary therefore to adjust downward their base for indexing by the multiplicative factor of 100/394.5 . |
| 30 | This is an ideal base for exploring with the villages of Interlaken , Grindelwald , Wengen and Murren easily accessible by a variety of different transports including cable car , funicular railway and post buses . |