Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer … is not to resign ourselves to our women 's role — in a woman 's place — and demand payment for staying put , but to collectivise childcare , to share the responsibility for bringing up children within the community . |
| 2 | Where was the best place for bringing up fish on the river ? |
| 3 | In this chapter , techniques for building up systems of the joint influence of variables have been outlined , using differences in proportions as the measure of strength of effect . |
| 4 | The wheel may be used for the identification of objects , for forming original sentences based on the pictures , and for building up stories around the picture ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 5 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 6 | It is about opening up ideas about the range of choices which could and should be available to them . |
| 7 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 8 | Twenty-seven people needed treatment after breathing in smoke on the Stena Londoner . |
| 9 | Firemen rescued the two staff who had passed out after breathing in smoke in the staff accommodation block . |
| 10 | Their protest follows that of local Penan tribal people , some 20 of whom were arrested after setting up barricades in the forests nearby . |
| 11 | Eleanor Rathbone firmly believed that the only way to remove a major barrier against equal pay in professions such as teaching would be to take account of the differences in standards of living reflected in the higher costs of bringing up children in the higher income groups . |
| 12 | You know about having t how do they feel in terms of bringing up kids in the flats ? |
| 13 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 14 | This was a time when Haslam learned the subtle art of keeping up appearances despite the fact that the world seemed to be collapsing all around him . |
| 15 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 16 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 17 | He told the Centre for Economic Policy Research that what was needed was an in-depth comparison of the costs of cleaning up emissions on the one hand with the economic benefits on the other . |
| 18 | Klein suggests that ‘ The process of splitting off parts of the self and projecting them into objects are thus of vital importance for normal as well as for abnormal object relations . |
| 19 | Effective though it proved , the device of holding down output in the hope of driving up prices brought with it problems not to be found in any economics textbook : the global output ceiling , if set realistically in relation to demand , can easily prove too small to be divided amicably . |
| 20 | Without their help , the security forces will have little hope of tracking down militants in the valley . |
| 21 | Timothy Sainsbury , the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , on March 7 insisted in the British House of Commons that the UK had no intention of giving up sovereignty of the islands and that the issue was not on the political agenda . |
| 22 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 23 | There 's a theatre marketing which is closing it , well , sort of shutting up shop at the end of the month , maybe |
| 24 | He reckoned that the islanders would be so devastated by the deaths of their children that they would be incapable of taking up arms against the invaders and , later , would be easily subjugated . |
| 25 | Despite being Motorola 's only volume outlet for 88000-based CPU systems , the company would n't dream , he says , of taking over fabrication of the part from its owner , in the same way that Silicon Graphics Inc is swallowing its chip supplier . |
| 26 | In the dispute with the Supreme Soviet , each side accused the other of taking over control of the paper in violation of the June 1990 USSR law on press freedom [ see p. 37541 ] . |
| 27 | While the measures taken by Britain in conjunction with our European partners to isolate the Burmese Government are welcome , the military dictators are still in power , they have no intention of handing over power to the democratically elected Government , and the appalling abuse of human rights continues . |
| 28 | However , it is sprightly compared with the pronouncement on ‘ automatic honours for public servants ’ by Richard Shepherd , the Conservative MP : ‘ It almost has the quality of handing out lollipops to the general satisfaction of the recipients . ’ |
| 29 | You only have to see some of run down estates for the evidence . |
| 30 | Long hours of standing over benches by the lock makers got part of the Black Country known as " Humpshire " . |