Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the candidate seems settled in for the day stand up and help him/her with their coat , or begin to walk towards the door .
2 Similarly , some feminists spell women as wimmin or womyn to avoid including the element men — even though that is not the true etymology and indeed , the element is not even pronounced .
3 You 're always gon na have objections , I think you 've seen so far , throughout the whole sales process , some are more awkward than others but you got by them but the majority will come when you ask for the business , or go to ask for the business .
4 Then at some time during the day , he or she has cause to turn their head sharply to the left , or attempt to take off the jacket .
5 The genes themselves do n't evolve , they merely survive or fail to survive in the gene pool .
6 Dine in style in the restaurant , or choose to eat in the bar buffet .
7 Now I 'd like to bring you back to Mr Williamson 's opening remarks in which he described the allocations of land for industry and all these other things that are tied in with industry now as generous , making generous allocations , and the Civic Society would like to see those allocations rather less generous , we are like trying to develop a climate of restraint when on the expansion of Harrogate and the rate at which people are encouraged or wish to come into the town .
8 Furthermore , the conditions can not impose a positive obligation , a financial payment or relate to land outside the application or the control of the applicant .
9 See more of this beautiful country estate and its wildlife on a Ranger-guided walk , or learn to ride at the Earl 's former stud stables .
10 As Jakobson perceived long ago , those varieties that have supra-local functions and that tend to develop in the direction of koines display simpler phonemic systems than varieties that have purely local functions ( for an excellent discussion of simplification and complexity in a range of language situations , see Andersen , 1986 ) .
11 Alternatively , strata will later be discovered that appear to fall into the time gap between the two stages .
12 Often lesions damage the connections of other systems that happen to pass through the lesion site .
13 Step 6 List the triggers that seem to lead to the behaviour .
14 We have seasons that seem to revolve round the grape harvest .
15 Similarly , in Hall v Wandsworth Health Authority ( 1985 ) 129 SJ 188 the court said that costs could be awarded when the respondents had been dilatory in answering the plaintiffs ' solicitors ' requests for discovery with no excuse and that leave to appeal from the master 's order as to costs was not necessary .
16 Indeed , on average , each pair of cod produces only two offspring of opposite sexes that survive to breed in the course of their lives , for if it were not so , the population of cod would grow and grow , which it clearly does not .
17 The cultural revival has been planned for years by members of the good old Council , members that prefer to stay in the background , having achieved the astounding feat of legislating and pedestrianising their way through the licensing laws , to an atmosphere of continental cultural Bonhomie from Blairdardie to Baillieston .
18 But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water .
19 There are a number of reasons that help to account for the success of building societies in the retail savings market .
20 A fascinating rootless floating plant with trailing stems of fine whorled leaves that conceal tiny bladders which trap any unwary aquatic insects that dare to venture amongst the foliage .
21 But these considerations , which are no fault of the present author 's , should not be allowed to diminish pleasure in and admiration for the parts of her book under review that have to do with the history of ideas .
22 Clearly a number of factors that have to do with the history of English ( chiefly the reported merger of meat/mate in the sixteenth century ) , with patterns of language maintenance , and with phonological theory and description , have also motivated the choice of this variable , and we shall return to these in chapter 5 .
23 Disagreement exists with respect to the further pathogenetic steps that lead to rupture of the vessel .
24 We share that judgement and intend to continue with the passage of the Bill . ’
25 In other words , pre-exposure to the stimulus may both retard the acquisition of the CS-US association and act to interfere with the retrieval of the information embodied in this association when it comes to a test trial .
26 I am making plans for a series of visits to all parts of the country and hope to return to the north-east in the midst of those plans .
27 He sheathed his dagger , whispered to Ranulf and Maltote to wait at the top of the alleyway , and knocked gently on the shop door .
28 Cut the salmon into thinnish steaks , arrange them in one layer in a well-buttered baking dish , sprinkle them with salt and seasonings , add about I oz. of fresh butter , cut in pieces , for every pound of salmon , cover the dish with buttered paper and a lid , and put to cook in the centre of a moderately heated oven , gas no. 3 , 330 F. In 45 to 50 minutes — a little more or less according to the thickness of the steaks — the salmon will be cooked .
29 But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows .
30 In their second year these children become able to walk , they leave the hut and begin to participate in the life outside .
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