Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 2 | Some GPs are getting quite despairing about their ability to cope with the unplanned influx of an elderly population . |
| 3 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that those farmers have seen a decline in their incomes and an increase in their costs , and are worried about their capacity to invest in the future ? |
| 4 | Discussion revealed that women 's interests lay very much with lambing , first aid , dairy husbandry and financial management although quite a few were doubtful about their capacity to cope with the last of these subjects . |
| 5 | In other words , they felt more confident about their capacity to deal with the tsar than at any point since the end of the 1820s . |
| 6 | The Financial Times of April 16 reported that Japan had sent confidential letters to both the USA and the EC expressing concern about their failure to comply with the Uruguay Round timetable . |
| 7 | She was no longer anxious about her ability to cope with the inmates of the pet shop , but she still disliked the sight of birds and some of the more sensitive animals being kept in captivity . |
| 8 | So doubtful was Maxine about her ability to contribute to the treatment in general , and about the strength of her visual imagination in particular , that we decided between us to do no more than practise relaxation and visualization techniques during that first visit . |
| 9 | Mother Hilary may well be the one to shed those tears , but she is also a realist who realises that for her daughter to achieve at the sport she loves , she needed to leave home . |
| 10 | She watched as the mare completed a second circuit in canter , waiting for her rider to ask for the gallop . |
| 11 | The energy behind Earth Lights undoubtedly has electromagnetic properties , but there are other aspects of the energy , such as its ability to respond to the consciousness of the percipients , which suggests something else is involved . |
| 12 | While we can not explain why this sense should be restricted to British English ( the Brown Corpus confirms Quirk et al. " s claim ) , it is possible to offer some explanation for its tendency to occur in the perfective aspect . |
| 13 | It will become increasingly clear that Britain is paying a high political price for its refusal to participate in the EMS , not least in the almost immediate reflex reaction against any British proposals to affect the design of a future monetary union . |
| 14 | A human being , situated as was the horse , would be expected to give reasons for its refusal to walk to the trough ( I 'm tired , not thirsty ) . |
| 15 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 16 | We and our European Community partners have repeatedly condemned the Burmese military junta for its failure to respond to the unequivocal outcome of the May 1990 elections , as well as its continuing disregard for human rights , notably demonstrated by the house arrest of 1991 Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 17 | Egypt and Syria already have strategic gains to show for their decision to rally round the Saudis . |
| 18 | In natural selection , genes are always selected for their capacity to flourish in the environment in which they find themselves . |
| 19 | Waiting in the wings , Swindon 's Parliamentary hopefuls looking for their chance to win over the electorate . |
| 20 | The Vlahs were sufficiently numerous in south-west Serbia for their name to survive in the Stari Vlah region , south of Titovo Užice . |
| 21 | Depending , as Dufferin had so clearly perceived , for their ability to govern on the collaboration of a vast class of petty native fonctionnaires , and the political apathy of an even vaster class of ignorant peasants , they could in no way afford to see these people aroused to insubordination , even of an ostensibly peaceful kind . |
| 22 | BELVILLE : I stepped out of my chariot to walk across the meadow and whom should I spy but your humble servant , Mr. Williams . |
| 23 | Each ovary may well prepare several potential ova each month , like a card player considering which card to play in the light of signals from the opposition . |
| 24 | They had refused the instructions of their government to return before the war . |
| 25 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 26 | In the face of their impotence to deal with the apparent all-embracing power of those ranged against them , the parents decided this was their only weapon . |
| 27 | Similarly , although trusts were reminded just one year ago of their obligation to abide by the manpower approvals procedures relating to non-consultant career grades , some have established posts clearly intending them to be outside the controls incorporated in Achieving a Balance . |
| 28 | The ministers who like the House either do so because , in their opposition days , they enjoyed its fellowship and had few other contacts in London , or they feel so confident of their capacity to score off the Opposition that they like revealing their talents . |
| 29 | In most Latin American countries the Communist parties are now an accepted part of the political scene , largely because of their willingness to engage in the horse-trading of Latin American politics . |
| 30 | Ten of the 16 autonomous republics within the RSFSR made a joint declaration of their wish to stay in the RSFSR on Aug. 29 . |