Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is able to claim privilege for the document , a copy may be admitted instead of the original . |
| 2 | Examples of the satisfaction gained ranged from ‘ being able to use condition scoring techniques to monitor feeding of the ewes ’ to ‘ being able to undertake major welding repairs and construct an ‘ A-frame ’ structure for a roof'' . |
| 3 | Once the police got into the van , they found plenty of evidence to connect Charley with the murders . |
| 4 | Rohmer tried to hit Cardiff in the face with his other free fist , but Cardiff was expecting it . |
| 5 | He soon started to gather illustrations for The Tourist 's New Guide to the Lake District , but as with the Manchester plan , it took much longer than he had hoped , and the final version was not published until 1819 . |
| 6 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 7 | Ybreska reached out with both arms to embrace Kirov by the shoulders , his face wreathed in a rapturous smile . |
| 8 | But it still gives you a pang to see performers of the calibre of Stephen Moore , Sian Phillips and Sheila Steafel trapped voluntarily in a vehicle heading nowhere . |
| 9 | Today 's meeting of the TUC-unions — NUPE , Cohse , TGWU , GMB , and Nalgo — is likely to concentrate on efforts to sustain support for the action through the Christmas period . |
| 10 | The government agreed , at the end of talks with Prince Sadruddin , to extend by six months a " memorandum of understanding " , due to expire in December , permitting UN relief agencies to continue operations in the north and south of the country . |
| 11 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 12 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 13 | HUTCHISON Telecommunications has promised to invest £500m in the UK over the next four years , part of which will be used to increase the customer service department in Darlington . |
| 14 | The Protestant majority in Ulster wished to remain part of the United Kingdom , and the province of Northern Ireland has so remained . |
| 15 | For the loyalists the purpose is to remain part of the U K and those two are so far apart , those two positions , that it 's impossible to see a bridge between them and that 's the difficulty . |
| 16 | Outlook , page 21 Bond remains with BSB : Alan Bond , the troubled Australian entrepreneur , is to pay the £27.5m required to remain part of the consortium behind British Satellite Broadcasting , the UK rival to Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Television . |
| 17 | ALAN BOND , the troubled Australian entrepreneur , will pay the £27.5m he must find to remain part of the consortium behind British Satellite Broadcasting , the UK rival to Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Television . |
| 18 | Doubt and ambivalence are transmuted into clarity and certainty , and any attempt to reintroduce complexity into the debate is rejected as ‘ mere nitpicking ’ or ‘ a deliberate attempt to muddy the issue ’ . |
| 19 | Poles were appointed to administrative posts in local government , and the law courts attempted to accommodate requests for the use of the Polish language . |
| 20 | Similarly , the cars of ramblers who do n't like to see bikes on the hills are , by weight of numbers , forcing cyclists off the road . |
| 21 | To gather signatures for the petition was a formidable task indeed , because it had to be back in Helen Martini 's hands by the following Thursday , so she could present it to No. 10 Downing Street on Friday 15 March . |
| 22 | Erm the planning conversation act nineteen ninety one requires the development plans to include policies for the conservation and that of the natural beauty and amenity of their land . |
| 23 | This kind of accountability goes beyond the narrowly defined stewardship of assets to include responsibility for the performance of those assets . |
| 24 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 25 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |
| 26 | The group plans to invest $150m over the period of the programme . |
| 27 | The group plans to invest $150m over the period of the programme . |
| 28 | Further extension to include 90% of the curve yields the inclusive graphic standard deviation σ 1 , ( Folk & ward , 1957 ) , which uses the 5th and 95th percentiles to define a spread corresponding to 1·65 standard deviations on either side of the mean . |
| 29 | Opportunities to take seriously such issues as girls and science or the merits of negotiated assessment , or to acquire skills in the areas of active tutorial work or special educational needs are few and far between , and often have to be carved out of evenings and weekends . |
| 30 | During this time , one senior auction house official noted that ‘ Each house has promised the heirs so much : advances , separate hard-bound catalogue , etc , that no matter which auction house gets it , it is bound to lose money on the sale ’ . |