Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will tell you all you need to know about surviving despite the twentieth-century diet , and the real facts about obesity . |
| 2 | Pearl uses none of the electronic or ‘ sound enhancing ’ techniques currently fashionable , and aims to concentrate on extracting from the original grooves the essence of music . |
| 3 | Answer ( b ) is an example of ellipsis because does can not be said to substitute for sing in the above question . |
| 4 | The Sargasso Sea is also said to have been the site of the ancient lost island of Atlantis where the eels could have once again found fresh water and been able to feed after spawning in the nearby sea . |
| 5 | then it may be appropriate for it to progress to operating at the skilful stage . |
| 6 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 7 | This chapter is therefore an invitation of sorts — an invitation to pause before plunging into the specific issues that follow and to consider some of the broader questions about the nature of education management . |
| 8 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 9 | The loss of reformist energy on the domestic front was another potential problem ( as de Gaulle seemed to acknowledge in returning to the old theme of participation in 1966 – 67 ) . |
| 10 | Och , just round to my Mother 's , basically , just to get out the house — I 've never been one just to sit in listening to the Central Heating switching itself off and on . |
| 11 | I dropped my rope at the base of one of the trees and started to rake , struggling to keep from slipping on the steep slope with its loose pine-needle surface . |
| 12 | This right of control is manifested in , among other situations , the consignor 's retrieval of goods from the carrier or the carrier 's warehousing agent and in the consignor 's instruction to refrain from delivering to the named consignee or to deliver to another consignee . |
| 13 | Pointer needed no further encouragement and I was too intrigued to object to floundering through the frozen bracken . |
| 14 | Thus TDC was able to cope without overcrowding with the inexorable but still moderate increase in demand for capacity during the period 1955 to 1975 . |
| 15 | Herreweghe ( Harmonia Mundi ) takes a broadly naturalistic view , allowing the text to unfold without resorting to the jet-propulsion treatment of so many Baroque choral recordings nowadays . |
| 16 | It has to be acknowledged that there is some potential risk attaching to this , particularly where the buyers are covenanting with the sellers , but such risk appears to be part of the price that conveyancers are prepared to pay for working within the commercial pressures in the modern conveyancing market . |
| 17 | Palace hope to clinch their first Premier League home win against the only side Steve Coppell 's men have failed to beat since returning to the top flight in 1989 . |
| 18 | People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying . |
| 19 | You have little to lose by attacking with the utmost determination . |
| 20 | I have to admit to hankering after the crackling energy of the latter at the Allegro vivace in the finale ( 2′43″ ) — here , by contrast , it comes stealing in , in flagrant contradiction of the score . |
| 21 | Surely , as a society , we need to begin by looking into the social training of our young people . |