Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington manager Ray Hankin put on both substitutes at the start of the second half and the move almost paid dividends after 53 minutes when Toman split the defence perfectly to find John Borthwick in the area , but the substitute 's left-foot shot was well held by the keeper . |
| 2 | Hankin put on both substitutes at the start of the second half and the move almost paid dividends after 53 minutes when Toman split the defence perfectly to find John Borthwick in the area , but the substitute 's left-foot shot was well saved . |
| 3 | Cutting ticket prices for the French may have helped the park nearly to hit its attendance targets , but it has also eaten into revenues . |
| 4 | She had recently found that she was waking with the dawn — or even slightly earlier — and she used the opportunity either to keep up with her journal or to rough out a column for J. D. O'Connor who grew increasingly pleased with her work . |
| 5 | Less formally it amounts to providing trained and experienced adults with the opportunity professionally to expand ( G.E . |
| 6 | Bearing that in mind , will the Prime Minister take the opportunity today to condemn one of his Ministers who said yesterday that people who were losing their jobs were being ’ liberated ’ ? |
| 7 | But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year . |
| 8 | A referendum on Maastricht would give everyone the opportunity both to understand it and to debate its implications themselves . |
| 9 | That does not answer the burning problem of law-breaking on a Sunday , especially when the House has not been afforded the opportunity even to debate the matter in full so that a consensus of hon. Members can be taken . |
| 10 | Obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material , but I have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish . |
| 11 | In a speech at the launch of the ss Trevethoe in February 1913 he took the opportunity publicly to declare that he was in favour of a conciliation board , and that he was not alone in this conviction . |
| 12 | Th there , there is a , there is a problem erm in that the invitation from Aida in this case to er issue a statement in general conformity erm confers on , on this committee the opportunity only to withhold that statement if there are elements of plan which significantly fall outside for one reason or other the , the terms of the structure plan and the points that have been mentioned in the er in paragraphs two point four to two point nine in , in er your officer 's views er are not such that the er plan is er unable to be afforded that statement of general conformity . |
| 13 | You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ? |
| 14 | The manager does not have the opportunity gregariously to share and sort out ideas with staff colleagues . |
| 15 | ‘ I expect some take the veil simply to hide a flat chest ! ’ |
| 16 | Now , he concluded gloomily , some the best examples of the Gibbons technique were destroyed and where was the expertise today to replace them ? |
| 17 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 18 | The struggle systematically to open up the domestic and intimate relations of the normal kin-based nuclear household is premised on the belief that what is chiefly at fault with the conventional family household is that it is excessively closed and rigid . |
| 19 | A recent Home Office survey concludes that there is no simple solution to the prevention of rape , other than ‘ the willingness both to question and to change the pattern of social life ’ . |
| 20 | The strength of subsequent recovery will depend largely upon the willingness truly to hand over one 's will and the outcome of one 's life to a non-individual-human God . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman is asking the board either to run down or to close the hospital . |
| 22 | I would regard it as particularly inappropriate for the creditor simply to entrust the security document to the debtor with a view to the debtor obtaining the surety 's signature . |
| 23 | The effect of such an agreement between a creditor and a third party with regard to the debt is to render it impossible for the creditor afterwards to sue the debtor for it . |
| 24 | At one meeting , Branson became so exasperated that he walked off his own boat and paced up and down the towpath outside to cool down . |
| 25 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 26 | We would advise the beginner never to write his cello and bass parts on the same stave : if he does , he will almost surely fall into the error of over-using the double bass , his mind 's ear , which acts through his eye , being almost certain to fail to register the lower octave . |
| 27 | ‘ Mind you look after the tarts , Bailey , while I collect some roses for the gel here to take to Miss Mates . |
| 28 | Michael Shersby , the MP who represents the police federation 's interests in the Commons , told our reporter Simon Mares that he found the sentence hard to understand . |
| 29 | Oh yes er when I was at home as a wee boy everybody milked by hand and give their calves the milk then to drink . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad . |