Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 2 | It 's a handy program for anyone who needs to send a large variety of business letters and who does n't want to faff about thinking of the right thing to say . |
| 3 | the Board considers the B R employe employees who transfer involuntary involuntarily to the private sector should return an indefensible right to remain as members of the joint industry |
| 4 | Professor William A. Cassidy , of the University of Pittsburg , listening to Shima 's tale , resolved to search for meteorites on the other margin of Antarctica , near the US base on McMurdo Sound . |
| 5 | To search for meteorites among the dark cobbles and boulders of dolerite that abound in such areas would indeed be an unrewarding task . |
| 6 | Investors , especially the big institutions , have started to search for value outside the top 100 UK stocks . |
| 7 | The circuit 's owners , the exclusive British Racing Drivers ' Club , whose members include Nigel Mansell , Stirling Moss , James Hunt and Jackie Stewart , admit that they need to spend £15-20 million on the track if it is to continue as home of the British Grand Prix . |
| 8 | Sometimes it seemed that those who had profited most successfully form the bonanza that he Shah had unleashed were the first to go -with members of the Pahlavi dynasty leading the rush tot he exit . |
| 9 | She understood that she could only leave the flat to shop for food at the Indian-owned store at the end of the street . |
| 10 | It was a toss up whether to try for acceptance in the front row ranks , or work towards qualifying for the back row . |
| 11 | If , for example , you want to know about punctuation in the seventeenth century , marriage laws in nineteenth-century Canada , the history of the Elizabethan stage , or current theories of myth or symbol , this is one place well worth looking . |
| 12 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 13 | He replaced seven ministers , most of whom were thought to be planning to stand as candidates in the legislative elections due in the first half of 1992 . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , in order to accommodate the monarchist lobby , when the first local government elections since the Civil War were held , in Madrid , in November 1954 , Franco allowed a group of monarchists to stand as candidates alongside the official list . |
| 15 | At the other end of the scale , although in many cases it is open to private individuals to prosecute for breach of the criminal law , it is generally thought , for various reasons , that usually it is best for public prosecutors to take such action . |
| 16 | The Commission rightly made the point that ‘ there is a concern that voluntary effort is being used to compensate for deficiencies in the public services . ’ |
| 17 | Inevitably , political differences in priorities and analyses exist , some women emphasis-ing the need to work for changes within the present housing system , while the priority of others is to construct alternative housing situations for women . |
| 18 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 19 | Women first began to work as psychologists in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 20 | While the CPSU dominated Soviet politics it did not have to worry about majorities in the Supreme Soviet . |
| 21 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 22 | They also accused Cafiero of seeking to keep himself in office by introducing a clause allowing him to stand for re-election in the 1991 gubernatorial elections . |
| 23 | In the increasing number of critical surveys of the English novel published during the present century Conrad is the sole writer ever to be included in the safe , accepted procession from Fielding to Henry James and beyond who could , to some degree , be considered to write of adventure in the traditional sense ; and it is always made perfectly clear that Conrad 's moral and philosophical probings constitute his true value , his story-telling expertise being , by implication , no more than a means to an end . |
| 24 | Her assignment for C 's Circus was to manipulate men of power and influence to work towards unity with the British Commonwealth in their desperate fight for world freedom . |
| 25 | The public knowledge that such discussion was taking place was damaging enough for Mrs Thatcher ; it was accentuated by signs that there was an active campaign to line up alternative candidates to stand against Heseltine in the second ballot . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , now emerging as the strongest of the 26 parties which had been allowed to register since May , elected its general secretary , Laurent Gbagbo , to stand against Houphouët-Boigny in the presidential elections ; he was the first opposition presidential candidate since independence in 1960 . |
| 27 | It fell to the BDA to ensure that the new breed of social workers with the deaf were motivated and equipped for their specialist task , and , particularly — that they were able to communicate with members of the deaf community , for which knowledge of British Sign Language ( BSL ) is essential . |
| 28 | A veteran local government leader in Coventry who went into city politics from the car factories where he was a militant shop steward , remembers an attempt to communicate with electors after the Second World War : |
| 29 | People do not sit down to write it , but those who need to communicate with people in the other parts of the country love to speak it . |
| 30 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |