Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thought by some that too great a burden might be placed on principals in smaller firms or on sole practitioners if such a proposal were made mandatory , and that either the ‘ net ’ of suitable signatories should be widened to include assistant solicitors or Fellows of ILEX , or that the category of undertaking to which the ‘ rule ’ might apply should exclude those of a routine or non-financial nature . |
| 2 | The basis for the continuum they put forward is was the level of processing to which the input is subjected . |
| 3 | The morally estimable act of exposing to us the worst in ourselves nearly always has something morally equivocal about it . |
| 4 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 5 | He does his readers the service of conveying to them the life and living of a family they might never encounter , or have had occasion to consider . |
| 6 | He assured us that the preservation of a proper pension scheme would be a consideration taken into account by the Secretary of State in determining to whom the subsidiaries of the Scottish Transport Group were to be sold . |
| 7 | In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup . |
| 8 | For our conclusions about the group would then be in every way prior to any conclusions about individuals ; we would have relied on principles of responsibility that draw their sense from a practice or way of thinking to which the personification is indispensable . |
| 9 | The Leader of the Party in the House of Lords , the Chief Whip in the House of Lords , the chairman of the National Union and the chairman of the Executive of the National Union , together with the president of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association , will on the Monday attend a meeting of the Executive of the 1922 Committee for the purpose of conveying to them the collective views of the peers in receipt of the Conservative whip , the National Union and the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association respectively . |
| 10 | She made no pretence of great musical knowledge and I had the satisfaction of describing to her the plot of L'Elisir d'Amore when no one else present in the Covent Garden box could remember it . |
| 11 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |