Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In commenting to its members on the distinction between fixed and current financial assets , the Building Societies Association has undertaken to consider guidance on the criteria they should apply . |
| 2 | If we force an associative adjective into predicative position , a user of English has to try to make sense of the result within a framework of interpretation , which already requires that the adjective should be taken as ascriptive . |
| 3 | When we are dealing with the literature on voting behaviour , we are dealing with a literature that has come to display turbulence in the face of electoral behaviour that has become increasingly volatile and unpredictable . |
| 4 | Owner Joanne Willies-Williams , 44 , has applied to open part of the Victorian folly as a museum for stuffed animals called Get Stuffed . |
| 5 | This is the second time in two years that Strathclyde has threatened to halt work on the Ayr Road Route . |
| 6 | ANDY ROXBURGH has decided to restore order to the chaotic build-up to tomorrow night 's World Cup qualifying tie with Malta by naming Aberdeen 's Alex McLeish as Scotland 's captain — two years after he last played an international . |
| 7 | The Bulgarian government has decided to suspend production at the country 's biggest lead plant for several months because it is causing severe pollution to nearby agricultural land . |
| 8 | Now that Poland has decided to wage war upon the Russian Bolsheviks , she has turned to our Government for assistance . |
| 9 | The judges , even in this , their very own field of creative endeavour , have accepted , in the interests of certainty , the self-denying ordinance of ‘ stare decisis , ’ the doctrine of binding precedent : and no doubt this judicially imposed limitation on judicial law-making has helped to maintain confidence in the certainty and evenhandedness of the law . |
| 10 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 11 | ... 21 AT London Scottish the role of providing rugby opportunities to Scots in London is still important , but in times of league realism , racial purity has had to give way to the expediency of also running a successful 1st XV . |
| 12 | Since 1984 the Justice Department has had authority to prosecute terrorists who attack Americans abroad , but the FBI has had to request permission from the host countries to return them to the US . |
| 13 | Sequent , for instance , has had to develop support for the VMEbus and streamline its memory functions , as well as modifying device drivers , to get NT running . |
| 14 | While the rest of the City has had to relinquish self-regulation under the Financial Services Act , the Panel has continued as a non-statutory body . |
| 15 | Lord Young has offered to give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee , which usually takes evidence from civil servants only . |
| 16 | has offered to co-ordinate hospitality for the Coburg girls and any of our regional teams who need to stay on Friday night . |
| 17 | And although the ANC has promised to share power in the subsequent government , the country will then be a short hop from the full-blown majority rule that has always been anathema to many Afrikaners . |
| 18 | Cheltenham Borough Council has passed a motion expressing its outrage at the murder and has promised to imrove security in the town . |
| 19 | Pylons inquiry will hear health paper A consultant who specialises in the effects of electromagnetic fields on health has agreed to give evidence at the North Yorkshire and Cleveland pylons public inquiry . |
| 20 | WHILE in London to sing the title role in the first British production of Verdi 's Stiffelio , the great tenor Jose Carreras has agreed to take part in the Australia Day Gala Concert . |
| 21 | A growing urban demand for food has tended to stimulate production in the larger and more commercialised enterprises , but this is not of necessity nor is it always the case . |
| 22 | Unlike most of its competitors , the firm has tended to inspire loyalty on the part of its consultants — who , since Stuart sold out in the 1970s , may enjoy a share in the equity — and has achieved a remarkable stability of gradually improved performance , still at a rate of 35% per year . |
| 23 | He argues that management has developed a range of responses and has attempted to maintain control through the use of industrial relations procedures , through bureaucratic rules which channel conflict into manageable and acceptable ways , and especially through the use of internal labour markets and dual labour markets which divide and segment the working class . |
| 24 | It has refused to allow inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency of two suspected nuclear sites , and has announced that it will pull out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in June . |
| 25 | Above all , Westminster enjoys a very high degree of support and interest among British voters , and it thus preserves the authority of the political system as a whole : ‘ The extent to which Parliament has served to maintain support for the political system constitutes one of the most fascinating aspects of the institution in the British political system , . |
| 26 | The parent needs to learn to present food to the child and then not pay attention to what happens . |
| 27 | The board has tried to gather information about the bid , but we could not act until we knew who to act for or against . |
| 28 | His " Englishing " perhaps conveys the message " My Horace , and mine alone " , though he has tried to keep faith with the original text . |
| 29 | The Division has continued to make progress in the second half in spite of very serious deterioration in the UK economic situation . |
| 30 | One application that has continued to make use of the statistical properties of language is stylistic analysis . |