Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hopes ( ‘ in a money sense ’ ) that he will ‘ get the Civil Service post : Nice to have a little money to spare above the necessaries of life . ’ |
| 2 | Younger workers living in company dormitories have little opportunity to escape from the affairs of their firm and from an early age their leisure time is dominated by work colleagues . |
| 3 | Try to make these positive , and if possible try to manage with the resources already available to you . |
| 4 | The question is whether these hallowed archaisms are only a surface phenomenon which a sensible modernization of Parliament would easily sweep away , or whether they indicate a fundamental unsuitability in the traditional kind of representative institution to cope with the problems of modern democratic government . |
| 5 | This is not new in child-centred teaching , but Way extends the notion of direct experience to exercise of the senses in the way other theatre people like Rose Bruford ( 1955 ) have recommended for children . |
| 6 | People that go to Comdex do n't rate Unix , the twice-yearly technology poll conducted by Byte magazine among attendees seems to suggest — and IBM Corp still has an uphill fight to win over the hearts and minds that are presently in the Microsoft Corp camp . |
| 7 | The Liverpool striker has rejected the offer of a new one-year contract to stay with the Reds . |
| 8 | Writing for period instruments ( players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ) was a further excuse to stick to the keys that Mozart wrote in , and fully enjoy playing with some of the most wonderful musical ideas anyone has ever had . ’ |
| 9 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 10 | These comprised a pork pie and some salami to stave off the munchies while I drove , a toothbrush and some toothpaste , and then a bottle each of tequila , lime juice and Asti Spumante for which I had plans . |
| 11 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 12 | Brundle chose this moment to come into the pits . |
| 13 | We could see it as providing an insurance fund against loss caused by ( usually ) unintentional failure to keep within the bounds set by the principles of public law . |
| 14 | It is not possible in a text of this nature to go into the details of security interests in any great depth but a number of questions arise with respect to the creation of such interests by a company . |
| 15 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 16 | The ordinary canons of construction require this court to look at the words of the section and to give them their plain and natural meaning . |
| 17 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 18 | H3 is hard to study under trial conditions since any school agreeing to help with trials is making some commitment to look at the materials beyond the norm . |
| 19 | 88open is trying to pull together a meeting of consortia chiefs this month to mull over the kinds of business , customer and anti-trust issues they all share . |
| 20 | Since then we have been steadily searching for another prize to go with the vouchers . |
| 21 | So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please . |
| 22 | And she told this maid to go with the letters to post them . |
| 23 | It also emphasised the need for more and better instrumentation to assist the operators , to monitor the development of the accident , and to provide quick and reliable information to help in the actions taken in response to the emergency . |
| 24 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 25 | But club chairman Stanley Reed warned last night there was still some way to go in the negotiations . |
| 26 | So the quickest way to get to the woods , if you were part of the Martin household , was to enter the orchard farthest from the house and climb over the vine-clad wall at its end . |
| 27 | He does n't have to pass this way to go to the shops . |
| 28 | It is understood it has budgeted for around £75m this year to deal with the terrorists bombing campaign . |
| 29 | The consequences strike at the right of the people of this country to live under the laws made and altered by their representatives in Parliament . |
| 30 | Most complicated and difficult to analyse were the religious motives , ranging from a direct yearning to follow in the footsteps of Christ to an opportunity to escape the pains of hell . |