Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels . |
| 2 | use the handle of the club hammer to bring blocks to the same height |
| 3 | We 've already used , improved the supporters ' hut to provide shelter for the many people who watch the matches , from which to serve teas . |
| 4 | ‘ For an actor of his calibre , ’ recalls Gerald Thomas , ‘ and he was of a very high calibre indeed , he had the inability to play dialogue at the same time as he was handling props . |
| 5 | In later proceedings for the continuation of the Mareva injunction , it was held to be regular and proper practice for a plaintiff to commence proceedings on the same cause of action in several jurisdictions in order to obtain Mareva or corresponding relief . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ One of the things most appreciated by those running smaller businesses is the chance to meet people in the same boat and discuss matters of joint interest and concern . ’ |
| 7 | The prize for successful candidates , a chance to study medicine in the former Czechoslovakia . |
| 8 | In ‘ The Dissolution of Character in the Novel ’ she expresses her faith in the power of the computer as a concept to change literature in the same way that print did nearly five hundred years ago : |
| 9 | This is an adaptation to survive predation from the many animals that hunt them — not least man for the cooking pot ! |
| 10 | As the government looks for cuts , it will find plenty of scope to make improvements at the same time . |
| 11 | Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another . |
| 12 | An appeal has been lodged against the refusal of planning permission to convert buildings at the former Jesse Harold factory , Dale Road , Shildon , into flats and houses . |
| 13 | As the evening wore on , with plenty of opportunity to study Melanie as the latter flitted from group to group , Leonora grew more and more furious with Penry . |
| 14 | there is now provision for a student to undertake modules at the same , as well as different levels . |
| 15 | Could I have Mr Chairman cos it 's a , is it an order of government to support Mr at the same time or should I do . |
| 16 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 17 | The reality is that we are dealing with half of a metropolitan region because it is manageable on this scale for the study of residential patterns and it makes sense to review base at the same level . |
| 18 | Mr Pébereau led Crédit Commercial through privatisation and is regarded as the man to take BNP through the same process later this year . |
| 19 | Racial discrimination was widespread , most Americans showing an unwillingness to treat Japanese in the same way as white immigrants . |
| 20 | In an effort to improve prospects for the latter , the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has drawn up a four-year plan . |
| 21 | It is rare for an overseas couple to find jobs in the same area — most travel to obtain a job wherever offered . |
| 22 | The construction of new warehousing within the Port of Belfast will benefit directly Northern Ireland 's export drive through the ability to aggregate goods from the many small companies making up Northern Ireland 's manufacturing industry . |
| 23 | As the Serbian-dominated federal army continued its push to grab land in the former Yugoslav republic , Herr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , German Foreign Minister , and Mr James Baker , US Secretary of State , agreed to take ‘ joint and decisive action ’ against Serbia . |
| 24 | By grossly exaggerating the victim 's treatment of the accused in order to gain sympathy for the latter he had instead made it seem all the more likely that he had meant to kill . |
| 25 | This provides you with the opportunity to make objections in the same way as with any other listed building and to put forward alternative solutions . |
| 26 | Under section 14 the police are given a power to impose conditions on the same grounds as in the case of marches ( see : Police v. Brickley , States , Kitson & Kitson ( Mag.Ct 1987 ) , where demonstrators were convicted for ignoring a condition that they should not stand immediately outside the South African Embassy ) . |
| 27 | Usually , he says , the children use their intuitive knowledge of the language to form sentences with the same structure . |
| 28 | and 100,000 pounds spent on an option to develop land in the same area . |