Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will target specifically chosen people in an effort to help them make links with the changing climate . |
| 2 | IT really annoyed me to see leaders of the public service unions on TV going on about how a pay freeze would be unacceptable to their members . |
| 3 | ‘ Everyone made money on the immigrant worker — from the big-time capitalist to the slum landlord — from exploiting his colour , his customs , his culture . |
| 4 | Just before the final moult they develop the piercing lancet which enables them to obtain blood from the mucosal vessels . |
| 5 | Does the Minister agree that to resolve the problem it is very important to engage those countries in the United Nations and that as Byelorussia and Ukraine are already members of the United Nations it becomes imperative — in view of his earlier answer about Russia remaining a nuclear power — for them to obtain membership of the United Nations and of the Security Council in their own right ? |
| 6 | Everyone has access to the whole system , both to see what 's going on and to contribute to change through Corrective Action and writing new procedures and instructions . |
| 7 | Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ . |
| 8 | Furthermore , this focus on child support does nothing to compensate women for the real inequalities that marriage and child-rearing brings . |
| 9 | The most common explanation for long-duration unemployment among older workers is that they lack skill which enable them to find work in the expanding sectors of the economy , and , being older , do not have the expected future working lives to justify further training and retraining . |
| 10 | The restructuring would be supported by loans totalling between $500,000,000 and $600,000,000 from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) to provide those dismissed with compensation , training and advice to enable them to find jobs in the private sector . |
| 11 | Years later when I became chairman of the medical missions of SPG , I realised how in mission hospitals all over the world , the same devoted healing mission was being carried on , which spoke much more eloquently of divine and human love than the preaching of less qualified friends like myself . |
| 12 | I asked Michael about the recent success of Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , in Paris . |
| 13 | I asked thinking of the noxious fumes . |
| 14 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 15 | To ascertain with accuracy whether such structure existed throughout its whole length , I made sections of the spinal marrow at different distances from the brain , and found that each divided portion exhibited an orifice with a diameter sufficient to admit a large sized pin ; from which a small quantity of transparent colourless fluid issued like that contained in the ventricles of the brain . |
| 16 | I made use of the royal authorization to publish the contents … and I reduced the telegram by striking out words , but without adding or altering … |
| 17 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 18 | Rather than mix grass and flower seed before sowing , I raise seedlings of the flowering plants in trays . |
| 19 | I slanted west through the pretty East Side , with its decorative dustbins , the paunchy awnings of the low-slung stores , the smell of dark hot trash , and dined blind with Fielding Goodney and Doris Arthur in a loud and airless media restaurant just five blocks from bubbling Harlem . |
| 20 | ‘ I met Veronica at the Anglo-Catholic church in putney — St Mark 's . |
| 21 | I met representatives of the National Association of Youth and Community Education Officers yesterday . |
| 22 | I shared command of the big " V " with two other skippers , Doug Thompson and Denis Mawe , as H.Q. frowned on any policy that kept an officer away from his home port and normal customs duties for too long a period . |
| 23 | I got help from the social services for this : they brought sheets and pillowcases from the hospital . |
| 24 | So I got hold of the right side . |
| 25 | Once in my hotel room , I got hold of the Yellow Pages and dialled for a woman . |
| 26 | This was briefly halted after it was designated a Grade I listed building by the Scottish secretary Ian Lang but recommenced after the local council declared much of the structure dangerous . |
| 27 | As soon as I left school I found work in the local Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura . |
| 28 | In accordance with Sod 's law , I found resistance in the final section . |
| 29 | On a number of occasions I found members of the royal household resting . |
| 30 | When I visited Glasgow in the late '60s Robert Clow was manager of the University Shop in Gibson Street . |