Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm sorry Mr Chairman if the report is doom and gloom but that is the situation that does prevail we will endeavour to work to the best of our ability , or the lack of it but please remember the constraints that we are under and if we have got any views , to stand , and if we do want to help the people in Dundee and we do want to stop the government pilfering the British Rail pension scheme |
| 2 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 3 | It comes about that the merchant has to go to the fair at Bruges on his business , and while he spends part of a day before departure in his counting-house reviewing his affairs the monk meets and converses with the wife . |
| 4 | To do that operation , you are expected to wait until the first of the month to start planning the month . |
| 5 | I tried to shout like the two of them , but my cry came out strangled and distorted ; I just could n't express my anger in English . |
| 6 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 7 | Material needs to arrive by the 8th of the month previous to publication . |
| 8 | Erm , Mr explained the reason for changing this but basically it 's to , to swap us again and that it will read that for one , that for ninety four to ninety eight the standard of grass cutting be seven occasions per year and the county surveyor in consultation with the Chairman be authorized to accept tenders from suitable contractors and the contracts be let to commence on the first of March nineteen ninety four . |
| 9 | The dolphin is practically extinct in the Punjab , where only 60 to 70 are reported to survive in the thousands of kilometres of river which were until recent times the home of many more animals . |
| 10 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA plans to pitch at the top-end of the volume workstation business with high-performance machines built around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC that will compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp — if it can figure out how to market the things . |
| 11 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 12 | The county chairman Brian Walsh said : ‘ We have a very full agenda for our scheduled meeting on October 26 so it was decided to meet on the 10th with cricket as the sole topic of discussion . ’ |
| 13 | Amongst all these fugitives seeking to surrender to the British in those first few days were the two groups whose fate is the particular concern of this report . |
| 14 | In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century . |
| 15 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
| 16 | They then couch their message in terms with which their hearers will be familiar , seeking to move from the known to the unknown . |
| 17 | They 're much easier this way round because you have n't got to go through the minor at all to reach them . |
| 18 | It happened to work for the two of us , we were lucky . |
| 19 | ‘ The spirits respect me ; I have had to do with the dead for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | It was obvious at this stage that the race was going to develop into the best of the day so far and when Lofthouse moved ahead again with one lap to go , Robert had it all to do . |
| 21 | Chartered secretaries have had to develop during the 1980s in much the same way as their nearest counterparts , lawyers and accountants . |
| 22 | I want to argue that partnerships should actively begin to research into the best of business practice , understand what it is about and create structured opportunities for education to learn , transfer and absorb . |
| 23 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 24 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |
| 25 | It was scheduled to open on the twentieth of May . |
| 26 | Almost imperceptibly the mood of the men began to change in the 1790s in favour of more continuous combination . |
| 27 | In the meantime , opinion began to move towards the last of the possibilities — and the one which suited Baldwin the best — a minority Labour Government . |
| 28 | Otherwise he would not only have to wait till the young of a non-related male were reared but would probably have to protect them as well in order to prevent other males from supplanting him . |
| 29 | After due consideration she decided to go from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 30 | And while the Pitts-buggers went wild with delight , Uncle Mick went wild with frustration , and started to remonstrate with the biggest of the pack . |