Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now distance receptors provide information about a possible event in the immediate future such that , through neural connections to innate movement controllers , an animal may make ‘ precurrent ’ reactions enabling it to adjust to the new information , for example , by approaching prey , or by preparatory behaviour for escape in relation to possible alarming stimuli . |
| 2 | The MPs , leaders of Britain 's cross-party peace group New Consensus , wrote to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams challenging him to appeal to the IRA to halt its campaign of violence . |
| 3 | I have , therefore , been asked to repeat my request of 3 July asking you to arrange for the hedges to be trimmed as soon as possible . |
| 4 | If you have a Pascal compiler you may wish to re-use , amend or string together various of the procedures within PITEST.PAS to produce your own routines e.g. you may wish to use the three options : create DC , update DC , and submit DC , to produce a routine enabling you to go through the whole create and submit procedure for DCs . |
| 5 | With a stick some eighteen inches long , you gave the first stick a tap at the point causing it to spring in the air . |
| 6 | While on Hainan Island , he received a telegram from Beijing urging him to return to the capital . |
| 7 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 8 | Now he has written to builders , architects , surveyors and other organisations asking them to look into the problem . |
| 9 | However , where any person holds proxies requiring him to vote for the appointment of himself as trustee , he may use those proxies and vote accordingly ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 10 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
| 11 | Each Mechonoid was moulded in fibre-glass on a circular base and , like the Dalek , fitted with castors enabling it to roll along the floor . |
| 12 | Matinee is a screen saver with a difference , but be warned — I had problems getting it to work with the VGA card in some machines . |
| 13 | Scientists take their side in the battle for reasons having nothing to do with the merits or lack of them of the issues but rather because of their politics . |
| 14 | The hospital was worried ; they had written to Mary several times asking her to come to the hospital for the results of her tests . |
| 15 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 16 | Once again , however , defensiveness won the day and when the Strathclyde Centre circulated forces asking them to co-operate in the venture , a decision was taken to withhold co-operation and a circular went round to this effect , suggesting the existing Home Office funded PRSU ( Police Research Services Unit ) and the Home Office Research and Planning Unit were adequate for the needs of the service . |
| 17 | To repeat , portfolio matrices imply nothing to contradict this , but , if they are viewed by non-financially oriented people as models of cash-balancing having nothing to do with the financial market , they will be used in a way that the theory of finance would judge inappropriate . |
| 18 | Last night Mr Smith wrote to Mr Major urging him to publish through the Commons library the legal advice given by the Government law officers on Labour 's controversial clause 27 , with the apparently contradictory legal advice given to the Foreign Office . |
| 19 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
| 20 | A debtor has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay a debt if the debt is not immediately payable and : ( i ) the petitioning creditor has served on the debtor a statutory demand in the prescribed form requiring him to establish to the satisfaction of the creditor that there is a reasonable prospect that the debtor will be able to pay the debt when it falls due , ( ii ) at least three weeks have elapsed since the demand was served , and ( iii ) the demand has neither been complied with nor set aside ( s268(2) ) . |
| 21 | A written invitation was sent to 10 patients for each doctor asking them to participate in the study . |
| 22 | The group also wrote to US President Carter asking him to intervene in the dispute . |
| 23 | Making Iris voice carefully casual , he asked : ‘ Does n't he ever ask where you 're going when you sneak out on Sunday afternoons leaving him to look after the child ? ’ |
| 24 | Coun Foster said the county council had written to bus operators telling them to abide by the rules and regulations or face disciplinary action . |
| 25 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 26 | Now a recap of tonight 's main news stories with Karen Fraser joining me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 27 | Time for a recap of tonight 's main stories with Karen Fraser joining me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 28 | Now another look at today 's main news stories with Karen Fraser joining me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 29 | Now another look at today 's main news stories with Karen Fraser joining me to interpret for the deaf . |
| 30 | Mike Atherton , too , came quietly back , and Tim Munton got his first Test cap , DeFreitas 's groin injury forcing him to withdraw from the squad . |