Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JH : I suppose the ideal must be that you drive headlong , for example , into the opening bars of the ‘ Hammerklavier ’ , or the opening piano cadenza of Brahms 's B flat Concerto , you convey a musical imperativeness , but not technical frailty ; that fine dividing line between suggesting the physical challenge without sounding as thought your technique is being pushed to the limits ? |
| 2 | Unless you are addicted to Brussels sprouts and fortified cereals , you will find taking this amount of folic acid unachievable solely through eating the right food . |
| 3 | I ca n't deliver these resources overnight but I can say that when we talk about building the Best Banking and Financial Services Group , we do n't simply mean the best for our shareholders . |
| 4 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 5 | Those responsible for bringing the Imperial War Museum to Hartlepool fully deserve the congratulations of the town . |
| 6 | I 'd just like to say thank you to WOMAN ( and my son ) for bringing the outside world to me . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't think rubbish , ’ she muttered to herself , and made a mental note to castigate Ace for bringing the anachronistic device along . |
| 8 | The Council , and subsequently the Group , gave their approval and the target date for bringing the new system into service has been set for 31 May . |
| 9 | And strong cultural norms of open participation , shared communication , and emphasis on task-relevant knowledge as the basis for credibility and authority provide a vehicle for bringing the local knowledge into decision making . |
| 10 | And to Gerry Marsden for bringing the whole event together . |
| 11 | Now , from a team at La Trobe University in Victoria , Australia , comes evidence that a pineal hormone , melatonin , is responsible for bringing the free-running activity into line with the outside world ( Science , vol 219 , p 1089 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 13 | With young children it is often not appropriate to offer food as a reward for eating the main course . |
| 14 | Complementary to its role as banker to the government is the responsibility for administering the public sector debt . |
| 15 | The Law Society recommended the appointment of a minister of justice to end the ‘ shambles ’ caused by half a dozen Whitehall departments having responsibility for administering the judicial system . |
| 16 | Lord Denning said : In my opinion any behaviour , by words or conduct , is sufficient to be a misrepresentation if it is such as to mislead the other party about the existence or extent of the exemption . |
| 17 | Apart from my own pride , what on earth would the public think about seeing the European champion and double sprint winner at the European Cup running in the reserve relay team ? |
| 18 | Benny 's mother seemed excited about seeing the new outfit herself . |
| 19 | But she had qualms about encountering the royal family , wondering if they would see her , not as Anne Mowbray , but as a stranger . |
| 20 | So symptoms that are common and occur in most or all cases of that type of complaint are useless when selecting a remedy , for example , nausea worse for eating , pains worse for touching the sore part , dry mouth with thirst . |
| 21 | This principle now has statutory approval in s1(2) and it is unlikely that courts will agree to adjourn care proceedings unless there are particularly compelling arguments for allowing the criminal trial to proceed first . |
| 22 | She was too plain , and too shy , to bring out into society ; but that , as Dinah told herself , was no reason for allowing the young woman to idle her days away in the Hampstead house . |
| 23 | The disposal can present a problem for a large works , and space has to be allocated for allowing the wet sludge to drain and for storage before the solid call be carted away . |
| 24 | Right-handed males who are very susceptible to hypnosis also seem to show a preference for using the right hemisphere of the brain — the side associated with imaginative rather than analytical skills . |
| 25 | If these two ballets were evidence of MacMillan 's gift for using the classical technique in a fresh and personal way , La Hermanas ( based on Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba ) , which came between , showed those themes of dark sexuality which would find their full development in Mayerling . |
| 26 | There are other reasons for using the phonological code , either before or after word recognition has been obtained , and some which go towards explaining its extensive use include : 1 allowing the generation of a memory of what has been read , 2 imposing an intonation upon the print in the service of comprehension , 3 imposing an external control on the reader 's attention to help convert the two-dimensional spatial display of text into a form appreciated by our temporally one-dimensional conscious processes . |
| 27 | Murine monoclonal antibodies conjugated with plasminogen activators may be valuable for targeting the therapeutic agent to thrombus . |
| 28 | Its designer from SEED at Risley , was presented with a £100 shopping voucher prize and a cut glass trophy for submitting the winning entry . |
| 29 | Here an inner momentum brings us face to face with ourselves and we can choose between perpetuating the old pattern or learning from our experience . |
| 30 | I can therefore find no ground for drawing the narrow distinction and would hold that in the case of all in-house benefits the same test applies , viz. the cost of the benefit to the employer is the additional or marginal cost only . |