Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eleven agreed to proceed by qualified majority vote on health and safety , working conditions , information and consultation of workers , equality at work between men and women , and integration of persons excluded from the labour market . |
| 2 | The rich began to build along the sides of Windermere , and fitted out boats with cannon ; salvoes were fired in order to ‘ enjoy the echoes ’ . |
| 3 | And since the rich tend to sit in their own gardens , public parks help redistribute enjoyment towards the poor . |
| 4 | The rich tend to want to be away from the poor , but the poor want to be in the same jurisdiction as the rich . |
| 5 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 6 | This was the policy the British intended to pursue at Chicago , much to US chagrin . |
| 7 | The British tend to sneer at American house-building methods . |
| 8 | A reaction against the occupation by the British began to develop after an incident in December 1813 when the then British commander , Major-General Gordon , condemned to death a British soldier for insubordination and the murder of a sergeant . |
| 9 | The British had to wait until the end of the 1930s for that luxury . |
| 10 | Fantastic though it may seem , in retrospect , the British proceeded to apply to India the Canadian model , complete with its Burkeian fallacy , that liberty equals empire , and with its federalist corollary . |
| 11 | Thus encouraged , the French began to assemble in November 1743 an army , variously estimated at 6–10,000 strong , at Dunkirk , under the command of Marshal Maurice Saxe [ or de Saxe ] , one of the ablest generals in Europe . |
| 12 | As a result the DST is able to operate a huge computerised identity-card system associated with equally large and efficient telephone-tapping centres which the French appear to tolerate without concern about their civil liberties . |
| 13 | Mr Jose-Maria Mendiluce , special envoy of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees , was one of the few permitted to pass through Zvornik in a white Jeep bearing the organisation 's flag . |
| 14 | Forster got Delaney back into the boat , leaving the gruesome remains to continue on their grinning journey . |
| 15 | Partly because of French opposition to closer US-European links , the US abandoned this plan at the end of 1964 and in December the Six managed to agree on an important element of the CAP common cereal prices . |
| 16 | The Japanese prefer to work at ground level . |
| 17 | War was in fact never declared ; the Japanese continued to refer to the ‘ China Incident ’ . |
| 18 | ( In fact , as Lord Goff , dissenting , said in Court , Faulkner v Talbot is a case on indecent assault , in which in most cases the sole mental element will be intention : did the accused intend to assault in indecent circumstances ? ) |
| 19 | Examples of an article ‘ intended ’ for use as an offensive weapon include a dart which the accused intends to throw in a football crowd or a pocket full of stones which the accused intends to throw at members of a rival demonstration . |
| 20 | Examples of an article ‘ intended ’ for use as an offensive weapon include a dart which the accused intends to throw in a football crowd or a pocket full of stones which the accused intends to throw at members of a rival demonstration . |
| 21 | And are n't most mothers in the 90s planning to return to some form of work outside the home by the time their youngest child is at school full-time ? |
| 22 | The mighty continue to fall at the Stockholm Open . |
| 23 | By showing the authority of the apostolic see to judge in such matters the pope therefore showed his authority to decide on rulers . |
| 24 | The survey data also allow us to explore whether , after allowing for other identifiable differences in the characteristics of male and female workers , the labour market during the 1970s appeared to discriminate against young women compared to their male contemporaries . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
| 26 | Well , I think cu , er cause suffering whatever it happens , but , surely why , I mean the elderly had to suffer through the wars so why should they have to suffer again now ? |
| 27 | Meanwhile the elderly have to rely on their families for support . |
| 28 | In effect Washington was subsidizing the Wilson government to pursue policies which the latter wished to pursue in any case . |
| 29 | Particular emphasis is placed at this point on the distinction between issue-oriented and issueless riots , the latter tending to occur in the absence of any justificatory rationale ( Marx , 1972 ) . |
| 30 | Police and army vehicles were interspersed with civilians ' traps and tradesmen 's carts , the latter having to submit to careful scrutiny before being allowed to enter the Barracks square . |