Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Saint Teresa goes on to talk about the ill-effects of reading for amusement — specifically reading books of chivalry — but that does not invalidate this demonstration of the role of reading and play in childhood . ) |
| 2 | The issue is whether or not the defendant 's lawyer should have told his client about the state of the title and the risks arising therefrom and I did n't have any difficulty in coming to the conclusion on that matter without the aid of expert evidence and erm the judge then goes on to deal with the authorities . |
| 3 | He goes on to speak of the hardships he endured , the thirst , the hard work the opposition , the homelessness , the abuse , and concludes ‘ we have become , and still are , the refuse of the world , the offscourings of everything ( 1 Cor. 4:8–13 ) . |
| 4 | It then goes on to look at the costs of protectionism so they 're , they 're looking at erm , the numerical estimates as to how much erm , protectionism costs , not only for domestic producers and consumers and tax payers , but also for third countries . |
| 5 | Well , you would n't think so to look at the photographs , would you . |
| 6 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
| 7 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 8 | The British reader has only to listen to the sounds that protest makes in his own streets , to the cruel , brutal voices that bellow over loudhailers about injustice and the disadvantaged . |
| 9 | One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again . |
| 10 | So the pupil needs merely to work within the constraints of the set pattern and is usually concerned , in terms of planning , with the content of the utterance , not with its form . |
| 11 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 12 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 13 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 14 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 15 | The sky was aflame and though she tried not to think of the sunsets from Fernando 's cliff-top it was virtually impossible . |
| 16 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 17 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 18 | Ore was also carted down from a hopper at Top Level , the track crossing the beck directly below the waterfall then winding around to connect with the Levers Water — Paddy End track . |
| 19 | Now BT is to invest £6.5million in a bid to foil the highly organised gangs , who distribute manuals and videos explaining how to break into the cashboxes . |
| 20 | One theory is that the US was at a loss to know how to deal with the rebels becuase it had , indeed , been plotting a Panamanian coup , but not this coup . |
| 21 | He wants to know how to get up the steps to the left of the infrared detonator . |
| 22 | They do n't know how to deal with the times . |
| 23 | People stared at the car , and we tried hard to look like the owners , not just the delivery team . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 25 | We have simply asked it to agree not to rake over the events of the past and to join us in making it clear these events are behind us . ’ |
| 26 | So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on . |
| 27 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 28 | Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes . |
| 29 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 30 | THE government has decided not to refer to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission the proposed acquisition by media group Pearson of Thames Television , part of Thorn EMI , it was announced yesterday . |