Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 2 | The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections . |
| 3 | He 's there to enforce the law as well as serve the local community . |
| 4 | 233 seems to be that if a wife signs a security document at her debtor husband 's request , the creditor will be unable to enforce the security unless either the debtor or the creditor has taken positive steps to try and ensure that the wife understands the import of the security documents or unless she has obtained independent advice . |
| 5 | By presenting this vision the artist hopes to reveal a different perspective and to enrich the viewer as well as herself ’ . |
| 6 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 7 | But it would be wrong , at least at the secondary level , to see the fragmentation as somehow the fault of narrow , self-interested teachers . |
| 8 | Neither is it acceptable to see the state as entirely dependent on monopoly capital as some Marxists still suggest . |
| 9 | Familiar with Scholl , but inclined to see the brand as very problem-specific , and also as a bit old-fashioned . |
| 10 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 11 | Attitudes towards rape thus get confused with ideas about the sexual desirability of women , which can lead some policemen to see the victim as partly responsible . |
| 12 | Alongside that , regional and social variation in the language in our own day is only fully understandable when we come to see the language as also varying in the temporal , historical dimension . |
| 13 | As regards the French , their aim must be to harass the English as best they could , to make their task of governing those parts of France which they controlled , and of conquering those not yet in their hands , as difficult and as expensive as possible . |
| 14 | All the products in the range contain pure , Essential Oils and their cleansing and soothing properties are designed to treat the scalp as well as the hair . |
| 15 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 16 | If the photon 's momentum were thus determined the electron 's uncertainty Δp could be made as small as we pleased , thus beating , it would seem , the restriction [ 2 ] In fact this does not work because we have to treat the microscope as also subject to quantum mechanical uncertainty . |
| 17 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |
| 18 | In the absence of such memorandum or the registration of a petition or receiving order in bankruptcy against any of the joint tenants in HM Land Charges Registry , a purchaser of the legal estate is entitled to treat the survivor as solely and beneficially interested if that survivor is expressed to convey a beneficial owner or if the conveyance includes a statement that such survivor is solely and beneficially interested in the legal estate ( Law of Property ( Joint Tenants ) Act 1964 ) . |
| 19 | Lecturers I spoke to saw the course as chiefly concerned with the development of critical skills combined with promoting an understanding of the vocational areas on which communications has a bearing : |
| 20 | do I , do they allow you to miss the week as well ? |
| 21 | He must now look to unload the ball as soon as he can . |
| 22 | The recommendation is subject to approval by parliament which is , however , likely to accept the proposal although only it can set the final date . |
| 23 | His new Food and Beverage Manager appears to accept the idea as theoretically desirable , but gives it a low priority in practice : privately , he has been urging Winter to ‘ crack the whip a bit ’ , arguing that the whole establishment needs ‘ a good shake up ’ before reforms can be introduced effectively . |
| 24 | Yet in Pomerania the Poles and most of the native Germans had come to accept the intermingling as perfectly natural and of no special significance . |
| 25 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 26 | But it is important all the same to provide the game as well as the story . |
| 27 | The umpires tried to restart the game after about 35 minutes but the Indian team again left the ground when Ravi Shastri complained the crowd was hurling stones . |
| 28 | He did n't want you to see it , perhaps because he does n't want to know the truth as yet . ’ |
| 29 | The parties to a takeover offer are required to observe the spirit as well as the letter of the Code and must accept that the spirit of the Code will apply in areas not specifically covered by any rule . |
| 30 | yeah because the person er who 's job it is to deal with the sulks for want of a better phrase there is not is preferring not to tackle the issue because as far as she 's concerned it 's not affecting the efficiency of the office , that 's what I 'm trying to say and it 's not , in fact it 's added to the efficiency of the office if anything . |