Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then a woman who had come in to sell flowers to the customers overheard their conversation and intervened . |
| 2 | The Women Returners ' Network is a group of working mothers who got together to help women with the challenges of going back to work . |
| 3 | Passed down to master distillers through the centuries , it is this recipe and the insistence on using only the very best natural ingredients that sets Gordon 's Gin apart . |
| 4 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |
| 5 | The case had been brought by the CDU which was widely perceived as anxious not to lose votes to the Republicans [ see below ] . |
| 6 | ‘ We know Clydebank will make it difficult for us on their own ground but it is important to this club that Aberdeen go through to meet Hibs in the semi-finals , ’ said manager Willie Miller . |
| 7 | Modern peace-makings seem not to entail marriages between the disputants , as the historic ones sometimes did ; but in all other respects contemporary practice accords with the image . |
| 8 | ‘ No , it 's when the government pays you not to grow crops in the fields . ’ |
| 9 | A file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , but the DPP decided not to press charges against the individuals concerned . |
| 10 | The enclosing matrix is a fine-grained sandstone , and the original calcite shell material has dissolved away to leave impressions of the shells on the sandstone . |
| 11 | Care needs to be taken not to start fires in the forests , especially in summer and autumn before the rains begin , when the foliage is tinder dry , and there are many forest fires every year . |
| 12 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 13 | Mr Shamir said he would stick to his promise not to make concessions to the Palestinians over the occupied territories . |
| 14 | He also strove staunchly to strengthen relations between the Poles living in Poland and those scattered abroad in the 13-million-strong Polish diaspora — links which had been almost destroyed during the Cold War period by Communist authorities , oblivious to their potential value to both sides . |
| 15 | In return , the Bank has guaranteed always to provide funds to the houses if , either as a result of these purchases or as a result of the rest of the monetary sector demanding repayment , the houses should find themselves short . |
| 16 | The median voter model can be applied directly to yield predictions about the determinants of public expenditure . |
| 17 | Parents need to provide their children with firm guidance and positive models of behaviour ; schools should do more to prepare pupils for the responsibilities of being parents . |
| 18 | Labour claims the council is trying to push through the changes quickly to limit negotiations on the principles . |
| 19 | A conveyancing appeals tribunal will be set up to hear appeals against the decisions of the board . |
| 20 | With her skirt billowing around her , Charity rushed out to grab empties off the tables before the wind shattered more of them . |
| 21 | Read in this way , community policing in Northern Ireland seems designed exclusively to improve relations between the police and Catholics , but it is much wider than this for it is also employed in Protestant t areas like Easton , where the existence of ‘ ordinary crime ’ ensures that the police are keen to improve crime prevention by better relations with the public generally . |
| 22 | She had shown Dot before how to find pictures in the clouds . |
| 23 | Well er we , we 've taken a , a , a policy view over the years because the group has a number of er very attractive er products and , and , and , and shareholders have frequently asked if was possible erm , to have concessions in all sorts of areas and the view we 've taken is that it involves a , a , a , a , a great deal of administration and that our real job is to er increase the profits of the business er , a as well as we can and then to pay dividends to the shareholders erm who will er , er , then use that money er , hopefully to buy a good number of our products . |
| 24 | The difficulty is how to make places for the flowers so that they wo n't fall out . ’ |
| 25 | He roused himself wearily to exchange greetings with the elders as they passed him , and went in to his foster-father . |
| 26 | Increasing numbers , increasing opportunities , and new ideas proved solvents of the old hierarchy ; and it is only towards the end of our period that a new type of hierarchy , with ideals and aspirations of a novel sophistication , was beginning once again to build walls round the classes of society . |
| 27 | At 27 , he started his own photographic agency and went on to make films on the proceeds , using the talents of advertising colleagues such as Alan Parker or of friends like Ray Connolly . |
| 28 | There is a need too to find solutions to the problems of older residential areas , for these are generally less safe than new ones as a consequence of their land uses , building densities , street patterns and traffic composition . |