Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In these circumstances further adjustment may be required as explained in note 1(a) to the accounts , to reduce assets to their recoverable amount , to provide for trading losses since the year end and any further liabilities which may arise . ’ |
| 2 | Is the care required likely to come from mobilising resources in the neighbourhood , through self-help groups , and existing communal facilities , thus requiring primary care ? |
| 3 | The only thing to remember about telling jokes at the breakfast/lunch/tea/dinner/supper table is not to make anyone sitting opposite you laugh when they 've got a half-chewed mouthful of tomatoey mush or curried gunge . |
| 4 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 5 | They do n't think it 's what they call ‘ right ’ for women to do jobs like castrations , and it seems to embarrass the poor dears to talk of putting heifers to the bull and dealing with calving cases , or to discuss the sexual behaviour of their animals . ’ |
| 6 | Children learn to listen by following instructions for the activities , which are recorded on the accompanying cassette . |
| 7 | where the tenant has failed to comply with repairing obligations under the existing tenancy ; |
| 8 | Data archives also have an important role to play in setting standards for the documenting of machine-readable data . |
| 9 | What they will do is give the GPs a role to play in allocating resources to the hospital services and will contribute nothing to the delivery of better VFM within the family practitioner services . |
| 10 | Parents and , depending on the circumstances , grandparents and childminders too , have a vital role to play in preventing accidents in the home . |
| 11 | I well understand why Opposition Members are looking rather depressed today , but I do not think that it has anything to do with catering facilities in the House . |
| 12 | If 500 was Sciences , 530 Physics , and 539 Atomic Physics , revisers at DDC headquarters could subdivide decimally to produce 539.731 I , the number for the Electron ; and should the electron itself reveal hidden depths in future , presumably they can continue to subdivide by adding numbers to the right hand end . |
| 13 | Similarly , people who at some time in the future will require foreign currency ( people such as importers , holiday makers , or those thinking of investing abroad or in foreign securities ) may prefer to wait before exchanging pounds into the relevant foreign currencies if they believe that the sterling price of these currencies is likely to fall ( the pound is likely to appreciate ) . |
| 14 | The signal FX 75383 ( reproduced opposite ) sent by Gen Robertson from AFHQ on the evening of 14 May was central to the events which are the subject of this report , because it contained the two orders on which 5 Corps was to proceed in making preparations for the handovers of the two groups of surrendered personnel with whom we are concerned . |
| 15 | Thus in a bid to weaken Arab support for allied action , Saddam turned the bunker deaths of Iraqi citizens into an international photo-opportunity while allied and Iraqi intelligence continue to collude in suppressing images of the dead Iraqi conscripts slaughtered by the bombing of Kuwait . |
| 16 | There are no conditions existing or likely which would permit the lender to refrain from providing funds under the facility . |
| 17 | The country had entered a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) with the CARICOM countries on Oct. 27 , 1989 — in an effort to win their support for its accession to the Lomé Convention [ see p. 37133 ] — to refrain from exporting bananas to the European Communities in competition with other African , Caribbean and Pacific producers . |
| 18 | The early country stations had been supplied with small lookout towers rising above the roof of the building to enable railway employees to watch for approaching trains over the horizon . |
| 19 | My grandfather was born at Farrochil , on Bolfracks Hill — we would still be there — but was my father to slave at carting stones from the Menzies 's quarry for old Wade to build his damned bridge ? |
| 20 | He had a lot to learn about operating methods from the people on the shop floor , but he could also pass on to them the fruits of his university education . |
| 21 | TWO officers from the German police at Dusseldorf will be visiting North Wales today to learn about policing methods in the region as part of an international exchange scheme . |
| 22 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 23 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 24 | A representative from the specialist relocation company , Homequity Relocation , gave details of how the home sale programme would operate and a local builder from Congleton was invited to speak on housing opportunities in the area . |
| 25 | This is argued on the basis of assumptions about the behaviour of ‘ bureaucrats ’ who are unable to operate by making profits from the services they provide as entrepreneurs do in the private sector . |