Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end they agreed that the 120 commissioners should hold their meetings in the church of St-Castor at Koblenz , lodging each night on opposite sides of the Rhine " to forestall outbreaks of fighting between the commissioners ' men " . |
| 2 | programs which allow the user to request functions by choosing from a list of options . |
| 3 | If the government opts to include these former guerrillas in a National Unity Administration ; the President will be free to concentrate efforts on dealing with the cocaine traffickers . |
| 4 | It may well be possible to find ways of dealing with the demands of the various themes of these acts by yet greater dependence upon the hierarchical/control model — indeed it almost certainly will be — but at what level of success in terms of the educational needs of the pupils and at what cost to the motivation of staff ? |
| 5 | A special committee , the resource allocation working party ( RAWP ) , was convened to establish ways of moving towards a fairer distribution system . |
| 6 | Although it is theoretically possible to catch scabies by sleeping in a bed previously occupied by a sufferer from scabies , the chances are extremely remote . |
| 7 | Heads will need to exercise skills in working through the stages of this analysis and encouraging teachers to sharpen their awareness of timing , without discouraging timetabling flexibility . |
| 8 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |
| 9 | He had to rebut charges of acting for the convenience of his political friends . |
| 10 | Our neighbours , with whom we drank Metaxa and broke plates most evenings , thought they were trying to discourage tourists from venturing into the mountains because of the risk . |
| 11 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 12 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 13 | They may also be concerned with relating these types to the symbolic meaning of each code within the community ( an aim which brings them within the scope of ( 3 ) below ) and even seek to establish a theory with predictive power , i.e. the ability to predict instances of switching within a stretch of discourse . |
| 14 | The protection is similar to that afforded to land sites by scheduling under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 . |
| 15 | Amilcar Méndez Urizar , a school teacher from El Quiché , a predominantly Indian area , had helped local peasants to file petitions against serving in the ostensibly voluntary civil defence patrols . |
| 16 | The two also hope to accelerate standards by contributing to the definition of an open architecture that can be used by others in the industry to develop software applications , hardware technologies and other products and components for Fibre Channel Standard-based networks . |
| 17 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 18 | An ordinary member of parliament who attempted to gratify constituents by pressing for a senior appointment was likely to be put firmly in his place by the Treasury , for this happened even to the well-connected David Scott , when representing the Dundee burghs in 1796 . |
| 19 | Learn to notice patterns of sighing and yawning and take steps to alter patterns of breathing from the chest to the stomach , taking slow breaths six to eight per minute , breathing deeply to the bottom of the lungs . |
| 20 | This was seen by some to have advantages by conforming to the system adopted by most other modular and course unit schemes in polytechnics and universities . |
| 21 | The freshwater lungfish retain their lungs , which help them to survive periods of drying in the rivers in which they live . |
| 22 | They keep wanting to supply goods without going through the proper procedures . |
| 23 | The methodological focus of this chapter is to learn techniques for dealing with the relationship between two interval level variables ; such data is often called paired , X - Y data , since for each case we have a pair of values which we want to display together . |
| 24 | He was associated with André L. Simon in the foundation of the Saintsbury Club in 1931 and , two years later , with that of the Wine and Food Society , the aim of which was ‘ to raise standards of cooking throughout the country and to provide practical demonstrations of the arts of the table ’ . |
| 25 | Regular testing , the annual publication of league tables and four-yearly scrutinies of schools by independent teams of inspectors will further increase the pressure on teachers to raise standards by concentrating on the basics . |
| 26 | MORE tea , vicar ? is not the sort of thing I expected to ask minutes after arriving in a Swiss ski resort . |
| 27 | Add a name songs This was an idea I had to personalize songs by adding in a child 's name . |
| 28 | The chimney swift of Asia manages to collect twigs by flying at a branch , seizing one with its beak and breaking it off by the sheer force of its aerial velocity . |
| 29 | First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team . |
| 30 | In tackling the serious problem of rural poverty , the Kenyan Government has advocated a Basic Needs approach to development and the research focuses on the ability of the schemes to improve standards of living for the rural poor . |