Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they do exist to deal with operators who fail , without reasonable excuse , to provide in a satisfactory manner the services registered . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is essential to establish at an early stage the significance of the properties to the operations and overall value of the target business . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Here , the non-believer is recommended to discuss with a literary scholar the identification of noun phrases in the works of Charles Dickens . |
| 7 | We also going to identify at an early stage the financial resources that will be in next year in order to meet our obligation with identifying worthwhile all the time and then by a course of are reserved er to , to support |
| 8 | It is an opportunity to experience at a practical level the pleasures of creating a piece of work or joining and dance . |
| 9 | We begin to sense with a keener sensitivity the needs of people around us . |
| 10 | I am increasingly concerned that validators increasingly fail to use as an important criterion the total experience of a student . |
| 11 | Something to do with a hundred times the amount is n't it . |
| 12 | And as in Dreams separate realities can fuse in a single image or sequence , so here words fuse as Joyce attempts to cast in a single form the body of his culture , the depth , variety , the body of his feelings — the feelings of his body . |
| 13 | The basis of the Directive is to fix in a general way the criteria for assessing the unfair character of contract terms taking into account , in particular , whether the relevant term was individually negotiated , the relevant strength of the bargaining position of the parties , whether the consumer had an inducement to agree to the term , and whether the goods or services were sold or supplied to the special order of the consumer . |
| 14 | Only in recent years has there been a sustained attempt by Marxist thinkers to re-examine in a thoroughgoing fashion the relation between the state , the economy and social classes , or to analyse that historical experience which reveals the emergence of a new type of authoritarian state from the revolutionary process itself or from the centralized control of a socialist economy . |
| 15 | Thus , several factors may interact to affect in a complex way the distribution of income and the extent of service receipt by elderly people , and these too are explored below . |
| 16 | As a consequence , the ambitions of the eradicationists , to see in a foreseeable time the disappearance of malaria world-wide , are most unlikely to be achieved . |
| 17 | She felt the shrugging of his shoulders as if he were trying to forget for a little while the fear that never seemed quite to leave him . |
| 18 | This means that whatever a lecturer 's status as an authority in his or her own epistemic community , the lecturer also has to possess as a successful teacher the authority to manage effectively his or her students ' learning . |
| 19 | In April 1982 , a Task Force of warships and marines set sail from British ports to dispute with a tin-pot dictatorship the ownership of a territory on the other side of the world , of which many Britons had never before heard . |
| 20 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 21 | We are now in a position to understand in a simple way the functioning of laws and theories as predictive and explanatory devices in science . |
| 22 | A point worth making here is that patients need to understand from an early stage the meaning of diabetes , that they have diabetes now and that they will always have it . |
| 23 | Section 92(1) states that to amount to a statutory nuisance the odour must be EITHER prejudicial to health OR a nuisance . |
| 24 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 25 | Whilst one objective is to reduce to an absolute minimum the range of products held there is a point at which rationalisation leads to a loss of efficiency and results in increased , rather than reduced , costs . |
| 26 | In these situations they are able to contribute information and guidance regarding the problems that pupils have with visual activities and to consider on an individual basis the compounding effect that these may have in terms of the other disabilities from which the child may suffer . |
| 27 | If you need to go to a six wheeler the performance is still impressive in 6 x 4 configuration with a trailing dead axle . |
| 28 | Following a day of workshops , discussion and contributions from the floor , the conference unanimously passed a resolution mandating the organisers to seek meetings with government and other interested parties to discuss the unemployment problem , and to monitor on an ongoing basis the impact of government economic and social policies . |
| 29 | A good many bills , public and private , quite apart from the major one intended to revise in a parliamentary way the Instrument of Government , were introduced and pursued , as Goddard , who was a conscientious attender , suggests , mostly without acrimony , though references to ‘ the court party ’ and ‘ the soldiery and courtiers ’ indicate underlying partisanships . |
| 30 | The manner of his election was dubious in the extreme ; Gallus had spent much time at the court of Theuderic , but at the time of Quintianus 's death he was in Clermont ; while the citizens were trying to decide on a new candidate the Holy Spirit descended on Gallus , according to his relative Gregory , and on the advice of his uncle Inpetratus he set off and presented himself to Theuderic , who authorized his consecration . |