Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . " |
| 2 | If the manager lacks the chance to engage in a fully collegial approach , if he or she can only find or make time for the essential step of ingesting or thinking new ideas in an atmosphere of enforced professional seclusion , does this obscure his or her clarity of mind ? |
| 3 | As mentioned earlier in this chapter , company policy may vary with regard to whether the expatriate is expected to rent or buy property in the new location or whether he can benefit from living in company housing . |
| 4 | The Church Commissioners have the right to declare a particular use as being unsuitable , and the Advisory Board is required to approve or withhold approval of the proposed adaptation . |
| 5 | For the EC , Article 85 of the Treaty of Rome prohibits agreements designed to prevent , restrict , or distort competition within the common market , though specific agreements may be exempted by the European Commission if they are found to have overall net benefits . |
| 6 | It has long been recognised that the Commission has required its own independent powers to review and , if necessary , prohibit those takeovers which may impede or distort competition in the single market . |
| 7 | This meant that , even with daily case conferences , it was not possible for one nurse either to supervise or take responsibility for the individualised care of each client . |
| 8 | It might be that they can discuss and compare life during the Great War , or in the 1920s and 1930s ; or they might want to talk about how expectations , duties , responsibilities have changed since their childhood days . |
| 9 | Almost as soon as he arrived at Highbury Chapman persuaded his chairman that the team needed Charlie Buchan , the long-shining star of Sunderland who , at thirty-four , was seen as the man to inspire and lend experience to the faltering Arsenal attack . |
| 10 | It had never proved satisfactory , and as she grew older she was beginning to recognise and make sense of the repeating pattern , like someone unrolling a flamboyant wallpaper . |
| 11 | Anyone who has made the mistake of parking at harvest-time under the trees which line the Place Drouet d'Erlon in Reims , will realise that most of Champagne 's bird life return each night to this one street to rest and make room for the following day 's gorging of grapes . |
| 12 | They wanted to recover a wider , more comprehensive vision of the church , one which could include and make room for the different forms in which the church had appeared through history , and in this way to overcome the deeply entrenched divisions between the separated confessions and denominations . |
| 13 | In the absence of more sophisticated software , and taking account of the desirability of direct client involvement , it was decided to try and make use of the same programme for record-keeping and analysis . |
| 14 | The learner is enabled to edit and modify text in the same way , say , as an adult journalist would . |
| 15 | Only recently has there been some serious debate within multiculturalism about the issues involved , although with very little guidance on how teachers are to approach and facilitate discussion around the inevitable questions which arise regarding the evaluation of different cultural representations , know ledges and practices . |
| 16 | Since 1953 the United States has been subjected to rapidly reduced lead time on computer innovation , from several years ' lead time in the 1950s and 1960s to zero and lag time in the 1980s . |
| 17 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 18 | New world-patented TV glasses designed by two Hungarian engineers allow the wearer to walk and watch television at the same time . |
| 19 | In an address to the Chapter of Wells the new Bishop made the vow which was to cause him so much trouble later : ‘ In all solemnity to teach and inculcate allegiance' to the new King ‘ both in our discourse and in our example to all your subjects under our care ’ . |
| 20 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that France was to send an official military " observation unit " to the north of the country , where it would patrol and prevent infiltration across the international border . |
| 21 | Yet , De Lauretis argues , this new figural cinema at least poses the question of ‘ how to reconstruct and organize vision from the impossible place of female desire ’ . |
| 22 | The dancers would dance , the mannequin would shiver and give birth to the green girl . |
| 23 | His lips moved , framing words , but there was no strength in him to make the air push forward and give sound to the desperate message he was trying to call … |
| 24 | He used no notes ; he had rehearsed his words many times since receiving the invitation to inaugurate and become president of the new movement that would soon sweep America . |
| 25 | Addressing the conference , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Supreme Soviet Chairman , attacked recent government criticism of both central and local legislatures , accusing the government of " constant provocative actions … perhaps to try and avoid responsibility for the existing failures in the economic reforms " . |
| 26 | The committee held that a direct approach should be made to Moscow to try and secure progress in the Joint Committee . |
| 27 | The mask will then arrive and terminate activity in the letter-detector level — but it will not affect activity in the word-detector level . |
| 28 | THE Surrey-based management consultancy and computer services group , P-E International , has won a contract worth about £500,000 annually to develop and maintain software for the big Edinburg-based life assurance company , Standard Life . |
| 29 | There was speculation about how seriously the committee would heed and take account of the overwhelming consensus that the early years are the seedcorn of the future , and that , commensurately , investment of the proper magnitude would have to be made to reflect that , and , also , to bring the UK in line with a number of other European countries , as far as provision is concerned ( Moss 1988 ) . |
| 30 | The publicity which surrounded this venture into Eastern Mysticism did much to popularise and gain acceptance for the Eastern religious practice of Yoga . |