Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first she had heard of it , for while Constance was away she had not felt able to accommodate the horrors revealed in the local rag and had read only the advertisements and the page called ‘ Eating Out ’ . |
| 2 | It must be remembered , therefore , that for the duration of the offline cycle , sufficient disk space must be available to accommodate the space required in the Offline work directory — only when validated primary and secondary copies have been generated on the offline media will Offline delete modules from the work directory and the storage directories . |
| 3 | To maintain public confidence in the ability of the press to regulate itself , the Press Council believes it necessary for proprietors or publishers ‘ to give a positive commitment to uphold the principles stated in the council 's declarations of principle and in the code of practice ’ . |
| 4 | It is , however , suggested that where a new basis for constitutionality has come to enjoy universal acknowledgment or sufficiently widespread acquiescence , the judge 's obligation to uphold the law points in the direction of endorsing charge rather than blindly ignoring it . |
| 5 | The prosecution relied on the circumstances of the shooting , an alleged confession by the defendant to the husband of the deceased , and previous threats to kill the deceased made by the defendant as testified to by the deceased 's husband and sister . |
| 6 | This is a new post , which has been established primarily to provide relief to senior members of the General Administrative and Academic Divisions and to enable the divisions to cope with the additional demands placed upon them by ad hoc tasks , for example the creation of new working parties . |
| 7 | Possibly , the delay in the English and Welsh revenue grants is to enable the Government to deal with the problem of poll tax bills which will be plopping through doors shortly . |
| 8 | Citing health service expenditure and public-sector salaries as major problems , the article suggested that a further package of economic measures would be necessary to enable the government to keep within the targeted budget deficit . |
| 9 | The latter idea is that organisations have spare capacity that can be brought into play so as to enable the company to comply with the demands of one group without requiring a damaging transfer from another . |
| 10 | It was hoped that this would reveal the differences to be taken into account when establishing a revised organisation structure , and also highlight the areas of opportunity to enable the Colleges to move towards the state implied by the ideal model . |
| 11 | Children themselves needed more visual encouragement to react to enable the book to compete with the attractions of video and television . |
| 12 | A new bridge has just been completed to enable the railway to pass over the new Metrolink . |
| 13 | Further , under section 7(6) , the GLC was required to have regard to section 7(3) and , where there was a deficit , the GLC was to take such action as appeared to the GLC necessary and appropriate to enable the LTE to comply with the requirements of section 7(3) . |
| 14 | The European Parliament ( EP ) ratified on Feb. 15 , 1990 , a protocol providing $70,000,000 in financial assistance to enable the economy to adapt to the customs union agreement . |
| 15 | The rally had been organized to mourn the guerrillas killed on the border on May 5 . |
| 16 | What sort of misguided speech was that ? were they dance about it or trim here , what they 're saying very simply and this is relevant to the people who are listening to us today , is that they are not prepared to restore the cuts made by the government which they have got elected . |
| 17 | I could not , in all conscience , advise anybody to embark on a commercial diving career at present , especially if that person has to borrow the money needed for the training . |
| 18 | Another use of the DCF method is to establish the maximum rate of interest a company can afford to pay to borrow the capital needed for the investment . |
| 19 | Another use of the DCF method is to establish the maximum rate of interest a company can afford to pay to borrow the capital needed for the investment . |
| 20 | Representations are statements made , almost gratuitously , to induce the Purchaser to enter into the agreement . |
| 21 | The bills of lading issued by NVOCC 's are subsidiary bills , in the sense that the right to claim the goods described in the NVOCC bill is predicated upon the NVOCC 's rights under a ‘ master ’ or underlying bill of lading issued by the shipping company to the NVOCC , or upon a contract of affreightment between the same two parties . |
| 22 | The Frankish king was expected to enforce the treaty imposed upon the Lombards by his father Pepin , and drive them back to their own territories . |
| 23 | The successful invasions by the French in 1666 and 1667 inflicted losses on the Leeward Islands that the planters found hard to survive , and these attacks forced the authorities in the West Indies to realize the dangers caused by the shift in the population balance . |
| 24 | The type of use under discussion is therefore exactly parallel to the infinitive of result , except that what has brought the support to realize the happening denoted by the infinitive 's lexeme is left undefined . |
| 25 | In contrast , help + to evokes help as a condition which enables the helpee to realize the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 26 | The helping is represented therefore as a prior condition or circumstance which enables someone to realize the action denoted by the infinitive . |
| 27 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 28 | By the time the crowd was invited to sample the barbecues scattered around the periphery of the park , and made available by the generosity of a local philanthropist and patriot , Plan Crockett , the second campaign to destabilize John Cormack to the point of resignation , was on the road . |
| 29 | Presumably the rest of the police service overburdened with er investigations of crime as they are , will have to carry the burden caused by the Department of Transport 's errors . |
| 30 | We need to jointly work together in public services if we are to combat the problems faced by the . |