Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some months earlier I had written to Sir Sidney Barton who , fortunately for me , was still British Minister in Addis Ababa , asking him to obtain the Emperor 's permission for me to follow the Awash river through the Danakil country to discover where and how it ended . |
| 2 | I will make contact with the movement and get permission for you to attend the next meeting . ’ |
| 3 | He has persuaded the new Armed Forces minister , Jeremy Hanley , to see a delegation next week to hear Chester 's case for it to have the new centralised pay and personnel centre . |
| 4 | David escorted her there on her first morning and was touchingly concerned for her , insisting on taking a cushion for her to soften the hard seat on the press benches and urging her to promise to leave the stuffy , dark-panelled room if she felt faint or troubled . |
| 5 | It 's a shared responsibility between them to create the right environment so that the magic can happen . ’ |
| 6 | It is a pleasure for me to announce the inaugural International First Turkey , and to award it to Mr Kaneo Nakamura , recent chairman of the Industrial Bank of Japan ( IBJ ) . |
| 7 | As Beatson has stated , ‘ a system that uses the pragmatic approach is not using the concept of error of law as an organizing principle ’ as such , but rather as a facade behind which to weigh the relative competence of court and agency . |
| 8 | ‘ Realism ’ in International Relations inherited both the presumption that the methods of natural science are the key with which to unlock the social world and the ambivalence about ‘ necessary and constant ’ . |
| 9 | Between September 1986 and April 1988 work took place to restore Llanthony Warehouse in which to house the National Waterways Museum and offices for British Waterways . |
| 10 | I was able to buy a small car in which to make the fifteen-minute drive to the campus each day . |
| 11 | In particular he thought that the fundamental principles of Aristotle 's philosophy could provide a setting in which to express the revealed truths of Christian faith . |
| 12 | Seriously , coal does n't exist outside of a market condition , OK ? and you ca n't have a market condition without someone to extract the damn stuff . |
| 13 | But he believes that linen is the ideal instrument by which to probe the hidden depths of marital life . |
| 14 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 15 | The Khlist was the perfect vehicle with which to secure the acceptable seduction of vulnerable women , and the message he propounded of redemption through sexual release resulted in hundreds of guilt-ridden and frustrated women falling prey to his advances ; his bedroom soon became known as ‘ the Holy of Holies ’ . |
| 16 | These techniques now provide the analyst with a formidable armoury with which to attack the many scientific problems associated with art research . |
| 17 | ALBA Yacht Services , based at Oban on the west coast of Scotland , offer a wide range of boats from Moody 31s to a Westerly Sealord with which to cruise the Western Isles . |
| 18 | Haslam 's exposure to the worldwide business scene nevertheless gives him an extra dimension with which to tackle the British Coal job . |
| 19 | The Aeronca is very definitely a machine from which to appreciate the fun side of flying , as the countryside passes by in a very relaxed fashion . |
| 20 | My Member of Parliament , Harold Lever , in response to an earlier letter of mine , wrote to the Algerian ambassador in London and got approval for me to cross the Algerian Sahara on foot . |
| 21 | Central government not only mapped out extended statutory territory for local councils to develop , but also provided a large financial incentive for them to cultivate the new territory . |
| 22 | In either event , it is argued that the residual rights of the shareholders create an appropriate incentive for them to activate the relevant disciplinary mechanisms . |
| 23 | Would the counts now war amongst themselves to establish the strongest ? |
| 24 | In the religious sphere the government was quite clearly using the Famine as a political weapon with which to subdue the Orthodox Church . |
| 25 | With the devoted assistance of several technical wizards we converted my A-frame into an alchemist 's chamber of optical and electronic apparatus with which to visualize the unseen dimensions of sound and form so often described by metaphysicians . |
| 26 | But , as with the wealth of other experiments that matrix isolation has made possible , the drawbacks are insignificant compared with the value of the techniques as , sometimes , the only tool with which to examine the inner workings of chemical reactions . |
| 27 | On the question of religion , the Buddhist tends to think of it as a raft with which to cross the tempestuous seas of existence , and the Buddha once asked , " What would you say to someone who carried his raft around with him when he had arrived ? " |
| 28 | The reply card became the basis of a mailing list for the mother when the infant was nine months , ideally the best moment in which to address the Better Shoe brand message to her . |
| 29 | This , obviously , is the place from which to inspect the western Pyrenees for a first time or , given the summary quality of the prospect , from which to take leave of them before driving north . |
| 30 | Standing by the front door is an excellent vantage point from which to admire the main part of the garden which is certainly colourful . |