Example sentences of "to [det] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here they fought bitterly with Jewish forces for control of the Jerusalem area , which had been allocated to neither side under the Partition Plan . |
| 2 | He belonged to that alliance of the professions , the remnants of old money and a smattering of intellectuals which had a romantic view of the working man and found a sympathetic ear in the leadership of more conservative trade unions . |
| 3 | Little did he know I was referring to him , to his associates , and in particular , to that alliance of the devil : Hitler and Mussolini . |
| 4 | And she said I 'm on the phone , will you talk to that person on the phone . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 1 ) … a person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so would tend to expose that person , or his or her spouse , to proceedings for a related offence … ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in the first-mentioned proceedings ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in those proceedings . |
| 6 | ‘ ( 1 ) In any proceedings to which this subsection applies a person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so would tend to expose that person , or his or her spouse , to proceedings for a related offence for the recovery of a related penalty — ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in the first-mentioned proceedings ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in those proceedings . |
| 7 | I discovered a partial answer to that question at the end of last week , finding myself in a television reception room with Sir Teddy Taylor and Labour 's Austin Mitchell . |
| 8 | He submitted that , if a national court is considering whether to grant an interlocutory injunction in a case such as the present , where the validity of the law sought to be enforced is challenged by the defendant on the ground that it is inconsistent with Community law , the question whether the court should require an undertaking in damages from the plaintiff as a condition of the grant of an injunction is to be decided on the principles applicable to that question under the national law , being a question of procedure which , on established principles of Community law , is left to the national law . |
| 9 | The answer to that question in the present case is , in my judgment , ‘ No . ’ |
| 10 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 11 | Today saw an end to that tradition with the last forty engineers graduating . |
| 12 | His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented . |
| 13 | John , you did n't do that to that gentleman behind the bar did you , smashed his eyes ? |
| 14 | Good communications are encouraged by doing so , and each product line can be encouraged to see itself as a profit centre , a company within the company , making for commitment to that element of the company objectives . |
| 15 | It was they who were the defenders , not the aggressors , the men pushed by fear of extermination into acts which they knew came dangerously close to that disturbance of the social order which was almost as much to be feared . |
| 16 | The Queen goes up to that girl with the eyebrows , and she goes , and how are you today ? |
| 17 | He dances to that music in the wood |
| 18 | He dances to that music in the wood . |
| 19 | He dances to that music in the wood . |
| 20 | He dances to that music in the wood . |
| 21 | I guess that in referring to that issue in the past few weeks we have been guilty of understating the size of the problem . |
| 22 | We have debated the exchange rate mechanism and general economic policy on many occasions and it will be possible to refer to that issue in the debate on Wednesday . |
| 23 | Get a mop to that mess on the deck ! |
| 24 | ‘ The recent change from Madam to Madame , ’ she said , ‘ though it has doubtless raised the tone and general tenor of proceedings in this low and benighted place , has not quite succeeded in erasing the traces of squalor and indeed sleaze which cling to that title in the popular or gutter imagination whenever it is applied to a hard-working woman . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I was going to that night of the dance and then I thought it was a bad time with it being Christmas and the New Year coming right afterwards . |
| 26 | Think back to that night at the end of September . |
| 27 | In their few days together Thomas had made no reference to that night in the car when he had asked her to touch him , there . |
| 28 | So do n't go telling her she ought to go back to that dump in the sky . ’ |
| 29 | You did great damage to that trust in the police when you behaved in this way . ’ |
| 30 | Head office could ensure goal congruence by working out a masterplan and then issuing detailed instructions to each division : make this many units , transfer them to that division in the following numbers at the following prices . |