Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do live in the same house as your landlord and he or she wants you to leave the property then he or she must still give you at least four weeks Notice to Quit on a special form . |
| 2 | So , unsurprisingly , she ensures that she does nothing to cross the ‘ important ’ people on which she is dependent . |
| 3 | It seems that the author has deliberately left things vague by choosing the intransitive verb construction : that she wants us to have the delicately ironic impression of a deferential , high-class shop in which doors , as it were , open and shut almost of their own accord . |
| 4 | This , combined with an unwillingness to lend more money to ‘ high risk ’ countries , considerably reduces their chances of running into trouble , although it does nothing to help the poorest nations . |
| 5 | What is important about this contribution to linguistic theory is that it allows one to analyze the personal or ‘ subjective ’ elements of language without having to resort to any real correlative outside language . |
| 6 | With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one . |
| 7 | It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 8 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 9 | This means that he intends us to develop the character of Christ . |
| 10 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 11 | It is the Spirit who adopts us alongside Christ into this sonship with God , and who enables us to cry the ‘ Abba ’ of little children in the family of God . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the session she lights the candle , the children sit round it in a large circle and she asks them to watch the flame , to concentrate on the flame and nothing else . |
| 13 | The Serb minority in Kosovo has a monopoly of the local firepower , and it uses it to intimidate the Albanians . |
| 14 | Parents love each child , and it grieves them to witness the hitting , hurting and hateful things said to each other . |
| 15 | Batty — I think we 're all agreed that it was a sad day when he went , but if it enables us to buy the ground back , or strengthen the defence , it may not be so bad . |
| 16 | Answer yes or no to the statements below and see If it helps you to uncover the reasons for your family relationships — be they bad or good . |
| 17 | If he wants me to reconsider the changes , I shall , of course , do so . |
| 18 | Just write the minus two all the way across there cos it allows you to do the calculation much easier rather than trying to remember it . |
| 19 | It makes your holiday look a bit more expensive at first , but it allows you to make the most of your stay . |
| 20 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 21 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 22 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 23 | It is effective against the evolution-plus-natural-selection myth , because it forces us to reconstruct the narrative of his subsequent theorizing not as so many unknowing steps towards his final positions , but as so many deliberate departures from positions initially shared with his mentor . |
| 24 | In effect , ignoring the effects of gender in this way merely reinforces stereotyping because it does nothing to challenge the definition of certain aspects of the curriculum as masculine or feminine . |
| 25 | This is presumably because it allows you to explore the knowledge contained therein . |
| 26 | And and I think that 's why this particular policy is very important to the Selby district because it allows us to address the balance between meeting what I would call the justifiable development but also the equally important environmental consideration . |
| 27 | In practice , some States ( including the United Kingdom and the United States ) always return the documents through their Central Authorities because it enables them to monitor the implementation of the Convention . |
| 28 | It has attracted the interest of physiological psychologists because it enables them to study the operations of one cerebral hemisphere , isolated from input from the other . |
| 29 | It has this name because it enables you to alter the order of slides — you just drag them to their required positions . |
| 30 | This process of filtering and condensing is both practical and intellectually useful since it forces you to reduce the bulk of words and yet preserve the essential meaning of the text . |