Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court , together with the Emperor , had moved to Saint Cloud for the summer and it was there , at ten o'clock on the morning of 5 July , that Ollivier as head of the Ministry , together with Gramont , the Foreign Minister , met the Emperor to decide on a suitable response to Prussian provocation . |
| 2 | By the end of the emancipation process , the authorities lacked the wherewithal to pay for the transference of land . |
| 3 | By allowing the Bill to pass through the House unamended in respect of premium rate services , they are condoning everything that is being done by those who for the past six years have been offering pornographic ’ services ’ . |
| 4 | In early October a UNP working party proposed fresh elections as a way of restoring Parliament 's credibility and of allowing the JVP to participate in the political process . |
| 5 | Theatre staff usually wait until the patient 's vital signs are stabilizing before allowing the patient to return to the ward . |
| 6 | Tariffs and trade restrictions were to be reduced only gradually , so allowing the EEC to concur with the world organisation , GATT , to which the OEEC states belonged . |
| 7 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 8 | My decision not to eat had been made on the spur of the moment and was based not , as I well knew , on the terrible beating , but on the pointless cruelty of not allowing the others to go to the bathroom . |
| 9 | Since the rate of repayment is reviewed only once annually , quite often the effect of mortgage rate rises has been delayed for some months , allowing the borrower to prepare for the increased cost . |
| 10 | using natural language indexing and allowing the user to deal with the vagaries of that language , or |
| 11 | With VAT on fuel bills scheduled for 1994 and 1995 , the strategy is beginning to shape up as one aimed at allowing the Conservatives to go for a tax-cutting Budget in 1996 or 1997 in an attempt to win back ground in the run-up to the election . |
| 12 | It was clearly bitterly divided and strongly polarised in its conflicting views , mostly revolving around the rights that would follow allowing the ladies to serve on the Main Committee . |
| 13 | In order that the method of fixing is secured to the pelmet buckram and not only to the lining , hand stitch , with a strong needle and thread , along the previous machine stitching on the tape , catching the buckram but not allowing the stitches to show on the right side . |
| 14 | They provide expertise across a wide range of topics while allowing the students to contribute to the year-to-year developments in experimental techniques . |
| 15 | The electricity can then be regenerated by allowing the air to expand in a turbine . |
| 16 | Tie bands hold curtains away from a window or door , allowing the fabric to fall in an attractive drape , while at the same time letting as much light as possible into a room . |
| 17 | Often too a local document might be used as a springboard , as starter material allowing the teacher to work from the known and familiar locality to the wider historical context . |
| 18 | This Act amended the 1944 legislation which had divided schooling at age 11 between primary and secondary , by allowing the break to come between the ages of 10 and 12 , to cover the development of middle schools . |
| 19 | In such a situation members of congress may also be prepared to forego their usual concern with constitutional niceties in the interest of allowing the president to cope with an international or domestic crisis . |
| 20 | After the election , opposition groups again protested against allowing the MRF to operate as a political party . |
| 21 | The prostaglandins also set off or cut down or stop specific enzyme reactions within the cells , thus allowing the body to react to the environmental stresses and insults and so keep itself intact . |
| 22 | Slowly lower your head , slide back a yard or so , and then cast to the fish , or imagine you are casting if you have no rod with you , without allowing the rod-tip to show over the edge of the bank . |
| 23 | Fears about excessive regulation have now disappeared , allowing the market to focus on the more fundamental attractions , with profits growth set to be stimulated by cost reductions . |
| 24 | Kirov broke off to slip the Moskvich out of gear , allowing the van to cruise to a halt by the roadside . |
| 25 | To name but three : Protestants everywhere insisted upon the necessity of allowing the laity to worship in the vernacular , giving them the cup in communion , and allowing the clergy to marry . |
| 26 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 27 | He held the piece up and sighted it , squeezing the trigger , allowing the hammer to fall on an empty chamber . |
| 28 | Average cost pricing or two-part tariffs may come close to the socially efficient output while allowing the monopolist to survive as a private company . |
| 29 | A little weight helps so I cast on , then drop a nylon cord ( most machine knitting retailers will have them in stock ) over the stitches allowing the ends to drop between the beds . |
| 30 | All the most popular colour specification systems are provided , including CIELAB , Munsell , NCS and Pantone , allowing the designer to work in the most convenient manner . |