Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This encourages them to listen to the responses and to each other . |
| 2 | This qualified her to play in the Scottish final at the new course at Westerwood , Cumbernauld . |
| 3 | This led him to focus on the top social stratum as the primary location of anomie , for it was power and not poverty that facilitated too easily the personal achievement of socially inculcated cultural ambitions . |
| 4 | This caused them to sink into the ground until the crossbar was only two inches above the grass . |
| 5 | This allowed them to distinguish between the two separate processes of adsorption of viruses onto cells , and actual entry into the cells . |
| 6 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 7 | And some allow us to indulge in the fantasy of living in an expensive house with lots of servants . |
| 8 | It would be in the nature of a test for her : if , as she claimed , she looked after her nephew as her own then she would not query the lack of financial support ; if she asked for it then it would be easier to force her to part with the boy . |
| 9 | There were only three episodes of acid gastro-oesophageal reflux without associated oesophageal distention , too few to allow us to comment on the effects of acidification alone . |
| 10 | This enables him to preside over the process which I have described with the minimum of overt interference , the constriction of the budgetary limits performing much the same role as the balance of supply and demand in a market system . |
| 11 | This enables you to comment on the content of what they 're doing . |
| 12 | This enables us to think about the RNLI ten , twenty , and thirty years into the future . |
| 13 | This bids them to look at the common law ( i.e. the legal position ) before the Act , and the mischief that the statute was intended to remedy ; the Act is then to be construed in such a way as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy . |
| 14 | It was held that it was not fair for the plaintiff to rely upon clause 10 to enable him to escape from the consequences of a clear misrepresentation on an important matter which had induced the defendants to exchange contracts even though the representation was not repeated in the contract . |
| 15 | It is unforgivable to leave it to wither on the vine . |
| 16 | Just as he said , Farmer Plant 's teenage niece , Harriet , was delighted to have her to help in the stables , and promised to teach her all about the care and feeding of horses as well . |
| 17 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 18 | Kurt is showing me his glasses which , along with his new hairstyle , are supposed to enable him to walk down the street unrecognised . |
| 19 | France , the United Kingdom and the USA on Feb. 13 rejected Libya 's response to the unanimous UN Security Council Resolution 731 of Jan. 21 urging it to co-operate in the investigation of the December 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger [ see p. 38743 ] . |
| 20 | Many expect him to emerge from the rubble as the undisputed leader of the French greens . |
| 21 | was of a description which it would be reasonable to expect him to obtain in the ordinary course of that business , and that he does that thing in good faith in the course of that business . ’ |
| 22 | She sets out the details of how she feels the patient should be handled , so that the carers and everyone else involved will all help him to move in the same way . |
| 23 | Hubert Walter 's death in 1205 forced him to transfer to the household of Bishop Jocelin of Wells [ q.v. ] , again as steward . |
| 24 | Such a problem was analysed in M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1956 ] 3 All ER 814 when Denning LJ said : I do not … see why the employers should be able to forbid him to call on the people whom he already knew before he worked for them … |
| 25 | The other ten require you to delve into the ICAO charts and VFR guide to find the answers . |
| 26 | A suncream with a protection factor of 8 allows you to stay in the sun without burning up to eight times longer than normally . |
| 27 | I was back to that school chapel with the chaplain doing his Goddest to get me to sign on the dotted line and hand over my soul . |
| 28 | Some part of her tried to convince her to make for the door , but she knew they would expect that . |
| 29 | Are we doing enough to enable us to compete in the world ? ’ |
| 30 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |