Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun pl] [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The rally had been organized to mourn the guerrillas killed on the border on May 5 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We need to jointly work together in public services if we are to combat the problems faced by the . |
| 11 | The Americans were anxious to see the Russians engaged in the Far East as soon as possible so as to minimise American losses . |
| 12 | Canada 's action is not altogether surprising in view of her dubious record on other conservation issues , but it is sad to see the proposals coming from the US . |
| 13 | Go there first thing to see the engines prepared for the daily shift , or watch restoration from our Viewing Gallery . |
| 14 | I mean I like to see the nappies flapping on the line . |
| 15 | That just blew me away , and then to see the pictures published in the papers ‘ Do you know this person ? |
| 16 | Ever since the aborted rebel Wallaby tour to South Africa in 1987 , French had made it a personal goal to see the Springboks return to the international stage . |
| 17 | As Canada break new ground in their struggle to remain a ‘ top eight ’ nation , PETER McMULLAN outlines the developments designed to see the Canucks succeed in the CANZ series and beyond … |
| 18 | I hurried down the stairs and was in time to see the gentlemen proceeding into the smoking room . |
| 19 | Although today it is a longer hole and equipment has improved , it is not common to see the bushes carried from the tee but it is done . |
| 20 | The LPF is used to scale the transitions according to the likelihood of the constituent words . |
| 21 | ‘ You may have a doctor called if you so wish to take a sample of blood for the purpose of having it analysed to confirm the readings given by the machine . |
| 22 | In 1146 Louis VII was asked to confirm the privileges enjoyed by the great abbey of La Trinité de Vendôme , under the patronage of the counts of Anjou . |
| 23 | Even by the beginning of the Cambrian period , when fossils start to become easy to find and many different kinds of animals had acquired preservable hard parts , it is possible to classify the fossils found in the rocks into broadly similar groups . |
| 24 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
| 25 | A simple method for comparing the performance of the analyser , given the different lattices , is to compare the ranks given to the ( correct ) words in the worst quality lattice . |
| 26 | Thus , for each of the four townships , it should be possible to compare the users identified by the first prevalence study with the users generated by the snowball sample in the same township to produce the required ratio of hidden to known use . |
| 27 | It is instructive to begin with to compare the stones listed by the Greek naturalist and philosopher Theophrastus ( 373/ 368–c.287 B.C. ) , in so far as these can be certainly identified , with those used for the stamp seals of the Aegean world during the second millennium B.C. and the cylinder seals of Mesopotamia as far back as the fourth . |
| 28 | It was widely recognised within the WEA at least , that the Cambridge Board was seeking to implement the policies outlined in the UEMCC 's 1937 memorandum ; |
| 29 | Peter Runciman , 64 , former executive chairman of Shanks & McEwan , said it had been decided to issue the profits warning to the stock exchange at a meeting of the company 's three-man executive committee on 5 September . |
| 30 | Duchamp-Villon , although at that time not personally in touch with the group , was on the committee of the Salon d'Automne of 1911 and together with La Fresnaye , Desvallières and one or two others , was largely responsible for persuading the hostile jury to include the paintings submitted by the Cubists . |