Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when the opportunity arose to participate in the Programme as a SCOTVEC National Development Officer , the changes began again to figure fairly prominently . |
| 2 | Proposals to limit the sovereignty of parliament tend to centre on the introduction of a written constitution with judicial review and the entrenchment of a Bill of Rights as some kind of " higher " law beyond easy parliamentary repeal . |
| 3 | The last story has to do with the girlfriend of a friend . |
| 4 | They go round and round , and begin to vibrate frighteningly , so that the whole washing-machine starts to tramp across the kitchen floor , in a growing flood of hot soapy water … |
| 5 | ‘ He is a world class player with all the attributes a striker needs to play at the top , ’ added Allison . |
| 6 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 7 | I hope this will cut down on the time your typesetter has to spend on the job and , therefore , on the final cost . |
| 8 | For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability . |
| 9 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 10 | JOHN McGAHERN : Because the writer has to get beyond the self to the facts . |
| 11 | He repeated the Comintern formula that " the united front can only be built up from below , by the workers themselves , not as a corrupt bargain of the reformist leaders and disorganisers of the struggle endeavouring to buy off the criticism of the revolutionaries , but as the solid class front of the workers " . |
| 12 | Parker , of course has to argue for the mainframe 's continued existence , but he does so persuasively with a blizzard of points seeking to prove that a ) the mainframe market is n't really in decline and b ) the mainframe will be able to evolve successfully into an indispensable network superserver . |
| 13 | The cinema even had a special computer installed to cope with the demand for bookings . |
| 14 | The cinema even had a special computer installed to cope with the demand for bookings . |
| 15 | The observer pegs one end of a string of length r to a fixed point O and then makes a circuit round O so that the string is all the while fully stretched , but of course confined to lie in the surface . |
| 16 | The Superintendent got to work on the telephone . |
| 17 | Given these factors , in particular the fact that default premia tend to vary over the trade cycle , it is not a trivial task to isolate factors related to competition in the new issue market . |
| 18 | When a Palestinian delegation asked to participate in the armistice negotiations , its request was rejected and the armistice was signed only by East Bankers . |
| 19 | Keegan led Newcastle to promotion in 1984 but the club failed to build on the success . |
| 20 | As it became apparent that considerable variations in training were to be found , the ( now ) British Library Research and Development Group for Research into Public Libraries felt that more information was needed about current practice , and in September 1982 , British Library Research and Development and The Library Association agreed to liaise on the development of an exploratory survey . |
| 21 | The office of president ceased to exist upon the death in 1980 of Marshal Josip Broz Tito [ for which see pp. 30472-73 ] , being replaced by a Collective State Presidency whose eight members ( one from each republic and province ) are elected for five years ( most recently in May 1989 — see pp. 36662-63 ) by the bicameral Federal Assembly ( Parliament ) . |
| 22 | Frankie Dettori , Forest Tiger 's rider , told the stewards that the colt failed to quicken with the field at the three-furlong marker and then ‘ died on him . ’ |
| 23 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 24 | Outside the breeding season they are infrequent inland , and the local breeding stock starts to return to the coast in late June . |
| 25 | The creditor or his agent has to sign outside the box . |
| 26 | The principal example for the latter occurs when the shareholder wants to borrow on the security of his shares . |
| 27 | Worst of all , Labour wants to transfer from the House of Commons its most basic power , the power over the nation 's finances . |
| 28 | The power lead from the transformer has to go to the keyboard first and a short lead from here connects to the PCB . |
| 29 | The unfocused light has to pass through the retina on its journey to the mirror and this degrades the quality of the image . |
| 30 | However , in general , the distance the light has to travel from the source to the screen via the two slits will be different . |