Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomson 's latest letters to the media very , but in some he explains the decades of delay with a puzzling tale of his attempts to ‘ shield the Blumleins from the belated discovery that a person close to them had supplied me with letters … stolen from the late Mr A K Van Warrington ’ . |
| 2 | He did n't think that the US would do a Suez in the Middle East . |
| 3 | Even the smallest county town could become the Mecca of the surplus rural population . |
| 4 | It relied instead on retaining general taxation ( plus national insurance , which is income tax by another name although more regressive ) as the main source with the hope that a growing economy would provide the NHS with the extra necessary resources . |
| 5 | This week , Mark Richmond , chairman of the SERC , compared the small number of researchers who can use the NSF with the many more who can use other facilities at the same time . |
| 6 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 7 | Such a move might release the UK from the moral obligation to support any legislation stemming from it , but the Commission would still be entitled to bring forward legal proposals . |
| 8 | Specially adapted accommodation will house a permanent exhibition of equipment later this year and an amateur station GB21WM ( or other call as appropriate for special events ) will operate every Sunday during the main visitors season . |
| 9 | Others tell us Apple 's Enterprise people have been shopping the thing around for a while apparently to further insinuate the Mac into the corporate environment . |