Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone involved in caring for the patient has to learn some of the techniques of handling and positioning him , in order to provide continuity . |
| 2 | Each stage is characterized by a simultaneous increase in abstraction and particularization , which are held in tension with one another , and each is taken to present greater difficulties for the subject attempting to resolve these into its own development . |
| 3 | While it may be a counsel of perfection it must , nevertheless , be advisable for the insurer to attempt to investigate each claim on the basis that it is likely to be an Optional Procedure action — unless , of course , it is quite obvious from the nature of the action or the injuries that this is not likely to be the case . |
| 4 | Money for the project aiming to restore former elegance came from BR , the European Community , Darlington Borough Council and Durham County Council . |
| 5 | There were some undertakings still charging only ½d. ( or even , in a few cases , ⅓d. ) per additional kWh to domestic users after the War , and ½d. was not even enough to pay for the coal needed to generate that amount of electricity in the majority of the power stations they were then using , far less to pay the other costs of supply . |
| 6 | In December 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment threatened to activate these default powers in Norwich , where the Labour-controlled city council had sold only 250 properties in the first year of the Act . |
| 7 | Operating the 238S requires a separate mixer , which I actually find easier than using an all-in-one machine because working alone and trying to remember complicated bounces and mixes and all the things which have to go on tape is hard enough , so routing signals through the desk seems to make more sense to an already cluttered mind . |
| 8 | He was way ahead of the rest of the field and battled on through the afternoon trying to win those valuable championship points . |
| 9 | If Larry 's death is understood as an inner voyage of the type described by Laing , a voyage occasioned by the physical trauma of a heart attack , many of the puzzling aspects of the novel begin to make more sense . |
| 10 | No whore house madam worthy of the name failed to offer this service , but Queen of them all was Mrs Theresa Berkley whose establishment in Charlotte Street was by far the best equipped of all . |
| 11 | Otherwise the only solution would be the resurrection of the synfuels mega projects and , barring the unexpected , oil price projections for the rest of the century appear to rule this out . |
| 12 | Since the Prime Minister acknowledges convergence to be a matter of considerable importance in the development of the European Community , why is it , now that the Engineering Employers Federation , the Confederation of British Industry and his noble Friends in the House of Lords have all made cause for new investment incentives for British industry , that he and the remainder of the Government refuse to take such initiatives in order to support this very best way of securing recovery ? |
| 13 | Paragraph 5(1) to Sch 17 of the Act seeks to remove this possibility . |
| 14 | The downtrodden captives in Egypt at the time of the Exodus came to realise that Yahweh , the only self-existent one ( Exod. 3:14 ) , was a mighty deliverer who could be trusted . |
| 15 | The extraordinary plumages of the male suffice to attract several females , who then rear their young alone ( see Selander 1972 ) . |
| 16 | An additional internal Chow test conducted by splitting the sample at 1982 Q4 ( coinciding with the end of monetary base control in the US ) and running separate regressions over the two halves of the sample failed to reveal any sign of a structural break . |
| 17 | Peter Holman 's exemplary notes suggest that Jenkins composed these works in his 20s or 30s , but the quality of the music seem to belie that generally accepted claim : it is difficult to imagine such depth of repose in so young a man — though that in turn gives the modern listener a clue as to why Jenkins was such a respected and well-loved figure in his day . |
| 18 | The women 's movement has presented a major challenge to these assumptions , but the law , the media , the social services , education and many other facets of the state continue to reinforce this pervasive ideology . |
| 19 | Why should the national level of the state continue to have such significance to people 's politics despite its apparent remoteness from their everyday lives ? |
| 20 | My opinion of the school seems to reflect that of the majority of the parents . |
| 21 | Equally , the degree of unionisation of the workforce seemed to have little impact on the personnel practices of manufacturing establishments in their use either of fixed-term contract workers or agency workers . |
| 22 | However , as Carole Ann Ford pointed out , anyone viewing the episode with hindsight can easily spot signs of great anxiety among several of the cast required to cross that gaping ravine . |
| 23 | Great crises do occur in the midst of structural change and , in fact , are part of the process helping to carry those changes through . |
| 24 | Therefore , if the Government can finance its expenditure without taxation by some other method , namely through inflation , by creating the additional spending power and infusing it into the economy , that is an ideal solution to an insoluble problem — how to increase public expenditure faster than the rate of increase of the national income without the rest of the community having to surrender any claims or expectations . |
| 25 | But , though they hesitated to return to the assault , many members of the party continued to hold this stand against me . |
| 26 | WHAT IS FRIENDS OF THE EARTH DOING TO HALT THIS MADNESS ? |
| 27 | For the assessment year 1985/6 , the Department of the Environment continued to use these raw Census figures , which show just over a million people in one-parent families ( very poorly defined ) , in their index of an area 's social conditions . |
| 28 | And , and probably you pick up some of the language used to describe this , you know . |
| 29 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 30 | The organisers of the visit hope to raise enough money to help the orphans when they return to Russia . |