Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 2 | This does n't mean that you should take time off work ; quite the opposite , as it is preferable that you remain occupied while on the diet . |
| 3 | It is obviously still a necessary preventive measure because in a recent survey reported by Eason ( 1989 ) involving 1576 motorists , when asked whether they obeyed speed limits and other road laws , 5% admitted driving while over the alcohol limit . |
| 4 | The party leadership in Scotland has dismissed that on the grounds that those MPs who are associated with Scotland United represent constituencies where action against the carrying of knives would have the greatest effect . |
| 5 | He recommended excursions into the surrounding countryside , and for his class of people he could think of nowhere better to go than to the grounds of the ancestral mansion of Studley park , some ten miles from the town . |
| 6 | Winter freezing closed the Trent and Mersey Canal for five weeks in 1814 – 15 , and Freeman has calculated that on the canals of the Lancashire plain there must have been twenty-day stoppages in thirty of the winters between 1771 and 1831 and thirty-day stoppages in ten of those . |
| 7 | Therefore , in looking at this diagram , one needs to realize that to the southwest er and just east of er Strensall erm the area is filled up by greenbelt . |
| 8 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 9 | The Crown has claimed that by the time he was arrested in the summer of 1991 his alleged computer forays had breached security surrounding a number of systems including one at EC headquarters , another at a world famous centre for cancer research and treatment and others at various universities . |
| 10 | Mr de Soto 's early association with Mr Vargas ' alliance , the Democratic Front , has cooled because of the economist 's suspicion that the novelist is being compromised by his allies . |
| 11 | The only time we sharply disagreed occurred when near the end of our deliberations I argued that we should say far more about classroom practice . |
| 12 | ‘ Earth stopped dying because of the AOL . |
| 13 | This can include walking to work or to the shops , jogging , skipping , swimming or dancing . |
| 14 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 15 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 16 | One journalist has written that during the Grunwick dispute of the late 1970s a tap was attached to the telephone used by the strike committee in the Brent Trades ' Council offices in Willesden Lane . |
| 17 | Professor F. M. Scherer of Yale , whose work on industrial structure we cited in Chapters 8–10 , has argued that in the United States the social cost of monopoly is large enough ‘ to treat every family in the land to a steak dinner at a good restaurant ’ . |
| 18 | Each generation has argued as to the merits of its team . |
| 19 | There is no question that in America , black tennis has suffered because of the lack of role models for youngsters to aspire to . |
| 20 | In order to understand what you would see if you were watching a star collapse to form a black hole , one has to remember that in the theory of relativity there is no absolute time . |
| 21 | ‘ The Director has decided that in the light of the learned judge 's ruling in the first trial , the second trial should not proceed because there is no longer a realistic prospect of convictions , ’ the CPS anounced yesterday . |
| 22 | Experience has shown that with the introduction of such systems the cost per case dropped , but there is little evidence of whether this resulted from greater efficiency or lower quality of care . |
| 23 | The tensions down the east side of Africa are well known and my colleague Peter Styles has shown that in the Red Sea the geophysical evidence also indicates episodicity . |
| 24 | As a rule , though , experience has shown that in the case of modules containing program code , the description lines should be used to describe the purpose of the code and not as a substitute for good in-line comments . |
| 25 | Work on the former group has shown that in the century between 1341 and 1440 , and more markedly in the last three-quarters of this period , the replacement rate for males was clearly below one , but rose sharply by the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( 75 , p.27 ) . |
| 26 | Research at the IMechE has shown that in the UK over 75% of the benefits of tribology are as yet unrealised . |
| 27 | Professor Crafts has shown that in the Midlands , far from retaining labour , recently enclosed parishes experienced considerable out-migration . |
| 28 | Nagel ( 1973 ) has shown that in the area exploited by hamadrayas baboons in the Awash valley there are no fruiting trees such as figs or tamarinds which by comparison constitute primary sources in the near-by P. anubis baboon area . |
| 29 | Research on encounters between police and public has shown that from the public 's view even the crime-fighters need communication skills ( Dix and Layzell 1983 ; Southgate and Ekblom 1984 , 1986 ; Sykes and Brent 1983 ) , although these abilities are all too often absent . |
| 30 | Now , gentlemen , this war has shown that among the leaders of Labour there is a body which is national and patriotic ( Hear , hear and applause , ) and feels these sentiments as strongly as we do . |