Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last Saturday their race was on last and I was aware of spectators leaving or attempting to leave before the Classics went to the line . |
| 2 | The court , in deciding that W was not guilty , said that a supplier of goods does not commit an offence under section 1 if he does not know at the time of supply or offer to supply that the trade description was applied to the goods . |
| 3 | holding a ‘ dress rehearsal ’ beforehand so that the members of the panel can get used to working together rather than having to learn while the interview is in progress . |
| 4 | In May 1977 , the Ministry of Defence , although continuing to claim that the shooting had been an unfortunate case of mistaken identity in a legitimate and tense situation , agreed to pay William Black £16,700 in compensation for the injuries he had received . |
| 5 | We need to examine , therefore , those experiments that try to determine if the conditions necessary for stimulus exposure to produce latent inhibition are the same as those that produce the habituation of a UR . |
| 6 | As we have mentioned , judges , the police and the public may have more difficulty in understanding serious female crime and tend to believe that the woman offender is not really criminal . |
| 7 | He hypothesized and sought to show that the consequences of this included a greater self-assertion by participants , a decline of leadership , a weakening of party government , and a loosening of the nexus of class and party . |
| 8 | When a rat became a competent maze-runner , Lashley removed part of its cerebral cortex and checked to see whether the animal could still find its way through the maze . |
| 9 | To assess Mr Reynolds ' fitness , various observations ( temperature , pulse , respirations , weight , urine tests ) and routine blood tests were carried out and checked to ensure that the results were within normal limits . |
| 10 | ‘ Pilot Courses ’ comprise units developed for phase 1 and 2 pilot courses and reviewed to ensure that the format of the new operational system is fully adopted . |
| 11 | I say a Supertravel ad for a ridiculously cheap week and phoned to find that the price applied not to St Anton , Val d'Isere , Verbier or any of the top resorts I considered worthy of my attention , but to a place called Argentiere which had only seven lifts . |
| 12 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 13 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 14 | He concentrated on the women finishing and seemed to forget that the men 's race finished elsewhere . |
| 15 | During his first term , Reagan and his staff eventually developed a better appreciation of the merits and responsibilities of legislators and came to realize that the making of policy required the executive branch to ‘ bargain with , cajole and otherwise court the legislative branch ’ . |
| 16 | We are at present analysing and looking to see if the effects of privatisation will more adversely affect women than men . |
| 17 | Bell metal , an alloy of copper and tin , was then poured in and allowed to set before the clay was broken away to leave the bell ready for tuning and polishing . |
| 18 | Having done all this , final adjustments can be made to the downhaul and outhaul to ensure that the sail has a good aerofoil shape . |
| 19 | Another , and perhaps better , way to make the check is to clip the battery into the mains charger ; switch this on , and watch to see if the charge lamp goes out . |
| 20 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 21 | Moreover , the increase in the expenditure multiplier led Neary and Stiglitz to argue that the introduction of rational expectations into ‘ quantity-constrained ’ models ‘ actually enhances the effectiveness of government policy ’ ( p. 224 ) . |
| 22 | However , the Swedish federation had yet to discuss the South Africa issue and threatened to withdraw if the South Africans raced , a sad reflection in this friendly event . |
| 23 | The year 1887 was a good one for Hardy : he and Emma paid a long-awaited visit to Italy which left him ‘ much illuminated ’ , and returned to find that The Woodlanders , with its intensely magical evocation of ‘ one of those sequestered spots outside the gates of the world ’ , had become a popular success . |
| 24 | The mist changed to a warm pink and began to disperse as the sun rose above the horizon . |
| 25 | He also feared the growth of Aminis influence and began to think that the reforms his prime ministers proposed were too extensive . |
| 26 | Evidence was therefore admitted and examined to determine whether the collateral facts existed in the actual case . |
| 27 | This system is based on the home salary and aims to ensure that the expatriate 's standard of living in the home country is maintained while he is working abroad . |
| 28 | ‘ Here I Am ’ has taken into account the development of the National Curriculum and aims to ensure that the quality of Religious Education is as challenging and demanding as other areas of the children 's learning . |
| 29 | Pray , pray and continue to pray that the missionaries might be filled continually with the Spirit ( Acts 4 : 31–33 ) . |
| 30 | Stir in the beef and red pepper and continue to fry until the meat has browned . |