Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet negotiators had been eager to preserve for the Soviet Union the right to retain something close to 80 per cent of the Warsaw Pact total . |
| 2 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 3 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 4 | The fact that the people involved who killed Chai in the snackbar fight were mostly ‘ unemployed youths ’ , seemed to emphasise for the young intellectuals the disrespect for knowledge prevalent in a money-orientated society . |
| 5 | If the date for returning to work continues to slip for no apparent reason the claimant should be advised that we will be arranging for an independent examination . |
| 6 | The immediate task entrusted by Franco to Lequerica was to secure for the Spanish regime the approval of the western democracies without , as yet , severing its links with Nazi Germany . |
| 7 | Eastman Kodak Co 's Japanese unit has had to pay about $20,000 each to those eight new college graduates for reneging on its promise to employ them : the money is to compensate for the psychological damage the last-minute cancellation may have caused them , and provide some of the salary they expected . |
| 8 | Two years previously , a campaign to write into the Irish constitution the existing legislation criminalizing abortion had got under way under the name of the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign . |
| 9 | An equally acceptable technique is to write in the blank spaces the reference to a textbook that you may like to consult later . |
| 10 | Mr. Denzil Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he has any plans to meet in the near future the chairman of British Coal to discuss the state of the Welsh coalfield . |
| 11 | Should not the Government , in the last few days of their existence , bring to bear upon the Iranian Government the utter condemnation that is felt by the people of the United Kingdom for the disgraceful action in imposing a death threat on a British citizen in the capital of the United Kingdom ? |
| 12 | But they do exist to deal with operators who fail , without reasonable excuse , to provide in a satisfactory manner the services registered . |
| 13 | The thick hempen cords were slung round our necks ; a dusty-robed priest appeared as if from nowhere to recite in a precise voice the last prayer for the dying . |
| 14 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 15 | Within this poem he clearly attempts to square on the one hand the darker representations of his sleep with his pansocratic visions , on the other hand , Pains of Sleep which was published at the same time as Kubla Khan illuminates the ancestral voices prophesying war . |
| 16 | They parted at the hatshop and made an arrangement to meet at the same time the following day . |
| 17 | It is essential to establish at an early stage the significance of the properties to the operations and overall value of the target business . |
| 18 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |
| 19 | The plans would become the absolute copyright of the Government , to choose from the several plans the whole or such parts as might be found desirable ; but the architects would not have the slightest claim to be employed in the execution of the works . |
| 20 | In this approach to the location of education management we may begin to find a new relationship between professionality and management , and to explore in a different way the questions of who does what , where and when in the whole management process . |
| 21 | The 7th Earl decided in the early part of the twentieth century to install in the two rooms the panelling and so designed it that there were recesses for pictures . |
| 22 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 23 | Hobson 's Imperialism is important in our context not because of its impact on the development of Marxist theories of ‘ the last stage of capitalism ’ , but as an attempt to restate for the new century the fundamental principles of Cobdenite free trade . |
| 24 | If , as happened very occasionally — for instance in the great boom of 1872–3 — some workers actually earned enough to afford for a brief moment the luxuries which employers regarded as their right , indignation was sincere and heartfelt . |
| 25 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 26 | Here , the non-believer is recommended to discuss with a literary scholar the identification of noun phrases in the works of Charles Dickens . |
| 27 | So it 's a kind of a strange argument to suggest on the one hand the Vienna settlement was a factor in in preventing wars between all the great , er major war involving all the great powers . |
| 28 | In such circumstances , it is clearly easier to establish more or less uniform procedures on a more or less informal basis , and to disseminate to the general public the sort of information which will generate trust . |
| 29 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |
| 30 | It would seem that these moves , the deification of Jesus Christ , and the introduction of the Holy Ghost , were the outcome of the obstinate intention to apply to the new religion the utterly unalterable condition that the ancient ‘ god ’ of the original scriptures must , at all costs be retained . |