Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I play with the slide on my little finger , so I leave three fingers free to fret behind the slide . |
| 2 | Scott 's instructions to proceed with working drawings followed on 17th March with a request for a list of builders willing to tender for the work . |
| 3 | We face the vastly increased traffic projections for the twenty-first century with roads adequate to deal with the conditions of the nineteenth . |
| 4 | ‘ Is n't Barney due to fly to the States at the end of March ? ’ |
| 5 | The royals won a bumper rise two years ago in a deal due to last until the end of the decade . |
| 6 | Almost five hundred friends and relatives have made the trip to Winchester , to encourage and support the recruits due to graduate to the status of trained Light Division soldiers . |
| 7 | In an instant , all the deadness , the withdrawal was wiped away , leaving his mind clear to operate with the precision of a surgeon 's scalpel . |
| 8 | There is still a high integration workload and the business has to look further out into the future to enable it to respond to the changes and opportunities likely to occur in the industry . |
| 9 | So we need to identify to what extent the o the quotes problem erm is cau is , is skewing the figures primarily to be able to get a forecast view of , okay what 's the overtime likely to do over the year ? |
| 10 | Here , we might note , the wife enunciates the aggressive sexual joke that Freud supposed to originate with the man . |
| 11 | ii European collaboration will help create an industry able to compete with the US . |
| 12 | To be used successfully a simulation model must adequately represent the system under study and there must be sufficient relevant data available to allow for the calibration or tuning of the model . |
| 13 | The lord of the educational manor condescending to fraternize with the plebs . ’ |
| 14 | Weed control must have been a major problem for a one pass cultivation system before the development of herbicides , and the extra weight of the rotor unit and the engine must have made the plough difficult to handle at the headlands . |
| 15 | He got several books ready to throw at the creature . |
| 16 | A drawback is that it 's put them in the frame for some pretty clueless advances from non-comprehending journalists eager to get to the bottom of this modernist lark . |
| 17 | And it entered his mind uninvited to wonder about the strangeness of human relationships . |
| 18 | AMERICA 'S FIRST five-jet aerobatic team look set to take to the skies in time for the 1993 airshow season , reports Bill Jesse . |
| 19 | The ivory towers of Oxford look set to shake to the sounds of battle for some time to come . |
| 20 | In 1926 would be the General Strike when Welsh miners marched the two hundred miles to London , their trail easy to follow by the black-blood spat along the road , while back at home the troops moved in for fear of revolution . |
| 21 | In an effort to produce a short form the JCT has not included specific provisions for many common situations , such as the need to open up work for inspection , or loss and expense suffered by the contractors due to default by the employer and supervising officer . |
| 22 | ‘ Why did our large country , our wise and old and very large country , begin to think so small that we became a nation of losers , a country of discount shopkeepers content to bask in the glory of our heritage . ’ |
| 23 | Well certainly examinations should only be carried out where er there is a benefit likely to accrue to the patient , and er this should always be greater than the risk from the radiation itself . |
| 24 | Thank you for your letter of 23rd May promising to look into the failure of Ribble to provide the above service on two occasions during May . |
| 25 | We end , after a protracted flashback , with Casaubon unable to go to the police because nobody would believe his story . |
| 26 | On Saturday , Athletics Canada chairman , Brian Langley , said it was unlikely officials would drop two healthy sprinters who had met the 60m standard in favour of an athlete unable to run at the qualifying meet due to injury . |
| 27 | The Tindemans Report ( 1976 ) recommended a gradual approach towards EMU , and suggested that the countries able to proceed in the direction of monetary union should do so , and others should follow suit later when conditions became more favourable . |
| 28 | The programme for 1988/89 is organised so as to maintain the flexibility necessary to allow for the covering of new research results and to enable distinguished overseas visitors to present papers to the Group . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) On an allotted day no debate shall be permitted on any Motion to recommit the Bill ( whether as a whole or otherwise ) , and Mr. Speaker shall put forthwith any Question necessary to dispose of the Motion , including the Question on any amendment moved to the Question . |
| 30 | The debate was concluded , and the Question necessary to dispose of the proceedings was deferred , pursuant to paragraph ( 4 ) of Standing Order No. 52 ( Consideration of estimates ) . |