Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things . |
| 2 | The 250 delegates were reassured by Mandela that despite the year-old agreement to suspend the armed struggle [ see p. 37642 ] , MK would not dwindle away , and MK members should prepare for integration into the armed forces of a democratic South Africa . |
| 3 | Remember that they should also be visible at night if you 're likely to use them then , so you should think about lighting at the same time when designing new garden steps ( see the August issue for details of installing garden lighting ) . |
| 4 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 5 | Here was a storeroom of statuary of deceased Sagramosos , exiled at the accession of a new Lord , though not condemned to be crushed to dust — their sheer enduring weight might act as anchor to the multi-thousand year dynasty . |
| 6 | This list is minimal , for many more ice-free areas around the continent would qualify for inclusion at the lower end of the size range . |
| 7 | There were a few exercises they forbade , and would never let the Prince pilot supersonic Buccaneers or the Sea King anti-submarine helicopters ; but he did qualify for membership of the exclusive Ten Ton Club , by flying at more than 1,000 m.p.h. in a phantom scrambled from Leuchars in Fife , which he had taken over Balmoral before going supersonic off the coast of Scotland . |
| 8 | Then you can signal for help in the approved method , raising and lowering your arms slowly . |
| 9 | In fact , if glass is prevented from cracking in tension , say by putting it into compression , then it is quite easy to get it to flow like a soft solid ; for instance , glass will behave like putty under the blunt point of a diamond indenter but the shear stresses required to cause flow are well above the normally observed fracture stresses — in common glasses at room temperature usually above 500,000 p.s.i . |
| 10 | THE Government will today fall into line with the European Community 's proposed Social Charter when the right of workers to belong — as well as not to belong — to a trade union is enshrined in its Employment Bill . |
| 11 | So far as the mechanisms for enforcing the rules of conduct are concerned , section 18(2) of the Act requires that any person who is exercising any of the functions conferred by Part II of the Act with respect to any of the matters described in section 18(1) , the granting of rights or audience etc. , must act in accordance with the general principle mentioned in section 17(3) . |
| 12 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 13 | IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other . |
| 14 | The identification of common phrases and word combinations may assist in selection of the correct word . |
| 15 | Given the above potential for arbitrage profits , it was argued that if enough investors acted on this opportunity , the price of ABC Ltd would rise and that of XYZ Ltd would fall in response to the changing pattern of demand . |
| 16 | If the Government are prepared to put £66 million into the work now , as well as dragooning hon. Members to push this Bill through the House , they must have — certainly they ought to have — a clearer idea of how they will behave in relation to the ultimate funding of the project when British Rail wants to start work . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards I was telephoned by Morgan Phillips , the general secretary of the Labour Party , to say that Randolph had issued a writ for breach of copyright and was applying for an injunction that very afternoon , and would I act on behalf of the Labour Party ? |
| 18 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
| 19 | In the course of this book , we shall appeal to evidence in the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic literature which offers insights into the way in which discourse , produced in describable contexts for recognisable purposes , is processed and comprehended . |
| 20 | The system ensures that those who might seem most deserving receive perhaps an Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) — or a British Empire Medal ( BEM ) for those ‘ who do not qualify by rank for the higher awards ’ — while a bureaucrat who has successfully worked his way to the top of the civil service without putting a foot wrong will get a knighthood in the Order of the Bath . |
| 21 | The faith of Greenfield , Hildyard and Olson in the consequences of the particular literacy practices which they describe will appear as faith in the particular social conventions within which such practice became established . |
| 22 | This research by Soothill and Jack masked the amount of sex crime being reported in newspapers , for by concentrating entirely on cases which would appear as rape in the Criminal Statistics for the relevant year , this provided a narrow definition of sex crime . |
| 23 | The sight of them sent a warmth stealing through her veins , and she was afraid her new dress might soon smell of sweat like the old one . |
| 24 | I was so tired with the journey and the entertainment that I could only walk and speak with difficulty for the next three days . |
| 25 | Discussion concerning the potential impact of scale economies , in terms of restructuring , does not finish with consideration of the peripheral economies alone . |
| 26 | There are two things we can do with hair on the upper lip , we can either bleach it so that it does n't notice , or we can actually remove it with wax , or we can have electrolysis . |
| 27 | Modern witchcraft has as many ‘ denominations ’ as does Christianity and , just as a respectable high Anglo-Catholic might shrivel with embarrassment at the gregarious worship of black Pentecostals , and vice versa , there are similar reactions between various branches of witchcraft . |
| 28 | The performable format of Dame Sirith , however , is not what one would expect in light of the French tradition . |
| 29 | There is no stabilized figure corresponding to the later producer or director , who does not really appear in theatre until the late nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Meantime , the 7½ inch gauge Coal Yard Branch Line was in full operation using a visiting 0-4-0T locomotive , scaled on ‘ Cadbury Number 2 ’ and a feature on this railway will appear in SRN in the near future . |