Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 They are well understood , cheap to collect and very difficult to evade … rates should remain for the foreseeable future the main source of local revenue for local government ’ ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 14 ) .
2 As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage .
3 Poland had by now withdrawn most of its trade through the city to its own port at Gdynia , and the Reich could hardly be expected to maintain or guarantee for an indefinite period the subsidy the city required.20 Lipski and Göring agreed that Germany and Poland should draw together in an understanding that they would jointly stabilise the city if the League should either collapse or decide to withdraw from Danzig .
4 Will the Minister discuss with the regional chairman the formula base that is used for the distribution of money to the districts ?
5 In Moscow tomorrow we shall discuss with the Russian authorities the way forward on a number of difficult economic questions .
6 It was agreed , however , that the OAU Secretariat should present to the 1993 summit the results of a feasibility study .
7 It was agreed , however , that the OAU Secretariat should present to the 1993 summit the results of a feasibility study .
8 Its primary aim was to " bring to the working class the fundamental idea of their own strength and power " .
9 If man does not bring to the universal conscience the paramount importance of self-control , monitored with reference to some all-powerful influence such as the Created God of this book , there is a grave danger that he could send his earth back to its pre-life state .
10 And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale .
11 So excited had Mr Wolski become — though he kept quiet about it at the Zoo — that he had taken down his atlas of the British Isles so he could mark off the various places the eagle was seen .
12 Nicholson will be glad when he can remove for the last time the putty nose , hairpiece and false front tooth the make-up wizards gave him each day to make him a mirror-image of bully-boy Hoffa .
13 The fascination Or sociology lies in the fact that its perspective makes us see in a new light the very world in which we have lived all our lives … .
14 She would then mark on the appropriate card the large task accomplished .
15 The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion .
16 The Executive Committee of this party may tender such advice as it deems necessary to the General Committee on the nominations found to be valid , and may suggest to the General Committee the manner in which they shall be dealt with provided that all valid nominations shall be placed before that body for its consideration at an ordinary meeting .
17 Where the work is clearly defined and structured the effective teacher can dictate to a greater extent the pace of the work and this will pay dividends across the whole ability range .
18 The trainers not only have to develop skills but also the professional maturity which enables the interpreter to use those skills responsibly to a defined code in the professional context and to confront and absorb in a positive way the inevitable stresses that come with the job — working in situations which may involve death , birth , bereavement , trauma or abuse .
19 The attempt would be made to ‘ expose in a lucid manner the relation existing between recent enquiries , and our actual store of knowledge ’ , and not ‘ merely isolated and unconnected abstracts of the several individual investigations ’ .
20 Although all modem workers ' movements have developed strategies comprising both labour market and political components how can we explain within the European context the greater emphasis upon the achievement of radical change in the structure of society by French and Italian unions , whose thrust ( certainly up to the late 1960s ) has been at least as much ideological and political as industrial , in comparison with West German or British unions ?
21 Placement may assist in pulling together the framework and coherent objectives for partnerships ; can explore how other organisations may be used ; is able to secure commitment to growth by partners through direct experience of one another ; establishes communications between the various partners ; may be used to identify who should be involved and at what levels ; provides a regular data and information flow through its exchange mechanism ; may indicate for the local area the support available from national employers that may be utilised at the local level ; constructs environments where introductions are purposeful between the partners and can adopt an incremental approach to partnership activity .
22 Services should have as a primary goal the alleviation of distress , by providing a programme of treatment , care and support based on the unique needs of an individual .
23 The fundamental issue is this that if the Labour Party is to remain a party of labour it must have as an integral part the trade union movement , it 's as simple as that , colleagues !
24 Let me take as a telling example the facts regarding human sexual dimorphism .
25 Did he also note in the same letter the noble lord expressed the view that it may be possible to adapt Tridents to fill a sub-strategic role ?
26 The evidence does indicate in a high-employment economy the proportion of workers to non-workers can be kept up by keeping more people in full- or part-time work past the current retirement age .
27 This examination will test at a higher level the linguistic skills and business knowledge tested at the Second Level .
28 I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work .
29 We can not EXPLAIN to the disabled person the presence of God among us .
30 Uncle said he will never forget as a little boy the sight of all these geese coming over the hill beyond our top pasture .
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