Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the combination of the ‘ toxic mix ’ of prisoners with these deteriorating conditions within which they are contained is thought to trigger off the periodic riots and disturbances to which the prison system is increasingly prone . |
| 2 | All we want is to get rid of the juggernauts . ’ |
| 3 | All we want is to get rid of the juggernauts . ’ |
| 4 | And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World . |
| 5 | Still , it is an election year and the nominally apolitical Fed is expected to rally round the incumbent president and dole out the credit with a liberal hand . |
| 6 | For instance there is electronic software distribution , an area that Legent reckons is set to explode over the next five years . |
| 7 | the service requested is intended to confer on the tribunal making the request jurisdiction over a person who by the law of the State of execution can not be subjected to such jurisdiction . |
| 8 | Ashton and MacMillan adopt the same practice in their ballets which can be called classical in the court meaning of the term and whenever the music used is composed according to the formulae for classical composition . |
| 9 | We shall find that there is a very good general rule that , while adjectives may qualify verbs or verb phrases as well as nouns , the property which an adjective designates is understood to apply to the entity of that noun phrase with which it is in construction most directly ( but not necessarily immediately , as we see in Chapters 3 to 9 ) . |
| 10 | The speed at which ejaculate is estimated to spurt from the penis says a lot about the pressure that 's built up before its release . |
| 11 | All you 've got to do is get rid of the air . |
| 12 | If you , all I do n't want us to do is to start drifting into the second exercise as part of this first exercise which sounds very much |
| 13 | The last thing we want to do is to start infighting on the S A Us |
| 14 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 15 | However , all this is doing is attempting to build into the machines the intelligence that would have been exercised by a skilled worker in going through the labour process . |
| 16 | But then I thought actually all this adds up to what you want is someone you feel safe with , someone you feel is going to look after the country and its people well , and I thought is Major somebody I feel safe with , and I thought well in some ways because I do n't think he 's going to turn round and do anything nasty to me , but on the other hand erm I wonder — I 'm going back to your question — is he a man of substance ? |
| 17 | By powering is meant raising to the power of ; thus , the single ( scalar ) quantity two can be raised to the power of three to give the answer eight . |
| 18 | The current phase of SAPS work is scheduled to finish by the end of 1993 , and it would be inappropriate to discuss future proposals here , save that no major additional IT items are envisaged . |
| 19 | ‘ The last thing I need is to keep arguing with the chairman . |