Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problem is , take one too many and you 'll start to see hair growing out of the walls . |
| 2 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 3 | Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former . |
| 4 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 5 | Benedict watched him go and then turned to find Theda leaning back against the mantel , white to the lips , one hand at her bosom . |
| 6 | This provided a package of financial incentives and exemptions from various laws and regulations to encourage businesses to set up in the zones . |
| 7 | THE Government 's scheme to encourage people to contract out of the state earnings related pension scheme ( SERPS ) via personal pensions has produced results way beyond expectations . |
| 8 | Attempts to encourage otters to come back to the River Thames are being aided by the building of a man-made home for them . |
| 9 | As an innovator , what directions would you like to see archaeology go in over the next twenty years ? |
| 10 | Legislation to tackle joyriding drawn up in the wake of last summer 's Tyneside riots comes into effect tomorrow . |
| 11 | • Many environmental consultancies produce publications to help clients keep up with the fast changing world of environmental legislation and regulatory affairs issues . |
| 12 | A couple are planning to drive their vintage Rolls Royce through the Alps to help children caught up in the war in Croatia . |
| 13 | She has been appointed a ‘ Goodwill Ambassador ’ by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees after her work to help children caught up in the conflict in Bosnia . |
| 14 | In an effort to avoid delays brought about by the technical procedures of the district courts , police court decisions were not subject to appeal and lawyers were barred from appearing in trials . |
| 15 | Rather than launch into these discussions with yet another set of theories , the aim of teaching in the New Testament department is to help students to go back to the verses and passages themselves for new insights and new understanding . |
| 16 | Tess stepped out of the tomb and managed to persuade Angel to walk back to the house , without waking him . |
| 17 | In a half-way motion the councillors decided to try to persuade tenants to join in with the ban … even though they wo n't be compelled to do it . |
| 18 | It had not been hard to persuade Brian to come up with the fees for university . |
| 19 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |
| 20 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 21 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 22 | If that is so , the easiest way out of this battle of the sexes will be for firms to let employees opt out of the company scheme and use their money to buy a private pension . |
| 23 | The union instructed its members on the Daily Express and other nationals to refuse to use copy sent out by the PA . |
| 24 | The decision whether or not to order a retrial lay with the special prosecutor , Des Drummond , appointed to pursue cases arising out of the Fitzgerald Commission . |
| 25 | He went home with a man who made love to him very violently on the living room floor , wanting to fuck Boy face down on the floor , and straight away , without any kissing ; the floor was covered with scraps of glittering sequined fabrics . |
| 26 | Inside is a plastic platform which is perforated to allow liquids to seep through to the tank in the bottom . |
| 27 | Many of the summary techniques used to describe mortality carry over into the other components of change . |
| 28 | Kenneth Clarke , the Minister of Health , now proposed to introduce the market mechanism , to give doctors more control over their own budgets and , perhaps more alarmingly to many , to allow hospitals to contract out of the health service altogether if they wished . |
| 29 | The whole hall is convulsed to see children elbowed out of the way while the adults take over skipping ropes and doubledutch , 1920s style , fills the screen . |
| 30 | The waif-like screen star , who in recent years has devoted her energies to helping the world 's starving children , has just pleaded for a week of peace in Bosnia to enable food to get through to the children there . |