Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tithonus directly begs the Gods to release him from their grip and let him die . |
| 2 | Accordingly , as he leads up to the day of Pentecost , Luke is at greatest pains to maintain that the Spirit , who equipped Jesus for his mission , equips the disciples to carry it on . |
| 3 | HOTECH 91 , the technology exhibition for the industry , offers the solutions to help you run a better business . |
| 4 | Secondly , the workbook encourages the students to understand their patient as a complex person whose health and wellbeing depend on more than biomedical considerations . |
| 5 | Mr Hermens added : ‘ Anyone can order the seals in the same number range and it would be easy for anyone who has the seals to open them . |
| 6 | It implies a certain commitment to the user and his or her needs , and it implies a particular kind of responsibility to ensure that the user has the skills to obtain what is needed : that is , to obtain the right information or material , in the right form , so that the user can benefit from it . |
| 7 | Compassion is not Jack 's strong suit : he advises a woman , worried about a scar , to tell her husband that she ‘ looks like a Playboy centrefold — and has the staple-marks to prove it ’ . |
| 8 | Also for that matter , a tenant hand , a householder has the rights to invite who he wishes into his own house , this one sided dictatorial attitude of the Labour group to determine who can , who can not enter his home is er contrary to my philosophy anyway Chairman . |
| 9 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 10 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 11 | The opportunity this gives an incumbent to take a broad view is useful if he or she has the resources to know what is going on . |
| 12 | VMX wants the assets to expand its speech processing product line into client-server environments . |
| 13 | The Alderwood Tenant Management Cooperative will manage their own part of the Spencerbeck Estate in a scheme which allows the tenants to decide their priorities on repairs , maintenance , allocations , waiting lists , control of allowances and general estate management . |
| 14 | It allows the engineers to achieve something which would not be possible otherwise and which seems natural to the audience . |
| 15 | The Commission allows the markets to do their prosaic task of delivering the goods . |
| 16 | In effect , the publisher disposes of the remnant of his edition to one or more dealers at a knock-down price and allows the dealers to sell them at whatever price they like . |
| 17 | But the stimulus that leads the termites to orientate their building in this way has nothing to do with magnetism and everything to do with heat . |
| 18 | This is the only machine in Britain offering treatment of eye tumours with a high-precision proton beam , which sterilises the tumours to prevent them increasing and multiplying . |
| 19 | The recipient gets what it needs and the donor gets the jobs to provide it . |
| 20 | Erm I 'm just wondering if he ever gets the messages to say I 've phoned . |
| 21 | The Warden requires the boys to record what they see , particularly in nature — |
| 22 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 23 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 24 | Resolution 8 proposes the re-appointment of Price Waterhouse as auditors of the Company and authorises the Directors to fix their remuneration . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , Mr Rees believes the Financial Statement to be a helpful tool which saves creditors , advisers and debtors much time , and helps the debtors to sort themselves out . |
| 26 | But it is the experience at the school itself which prompts the youths to channel their energies into sport . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) A reasoning question asks the pupils to explain something , e.g. " What does the picture tell us about how the Normans and Saxons fought ? " |
| 28 | The sound of the rasping changes as the teeth become smooth and Tom again feels the teeth to ensure they are all smooth . |
| 29 | The Soviet tendency to gloss over its military presence in Vietnam has been accompanied by denunciations of the agreement which permits the Americans to lease their most significant bases in Southeast Asia , Clark Air Base and Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 30 | No one expects the editors to commit themselves before receiving a submitted paper , but some indication of the degree of pleasure with which a resubmission would be received would be welcome . |