Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the cause is reasonably capable of being associated with the promotion of lawful business interests the judge should not allow the case to go to the jury if there is no evidence of the accused 's intention going beyond such lawful business interests … |
| 2 | All but about 300 of the East Germans had flatly refused an offer of guaranteed permission to go to the West providing they returned to East Germany first . |
| 3 | In this way the energy pattern of a cancer-causing agent can transfer itself via the field to impinge upon the cell if the cell exhibits a vulnerability or an attractiveness to the agent . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 5 | It 's a privilege to meet with the students as they seek God 's direction for the future . |
| 6 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 7 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 8 | Corbett dismounted slowly , ordering Ranulf to look after the horses as he went to meet the chamberlain , who had come out to greet him . |
| 9 | After more skirmishes , a compromise was reached which allowed for Liesl to stay with the Wynnes until her real mother was able to care for her . |
| 10 | Although the trigger for this phenomenon is unknown , hypobiosis occurs at the start of a prolonged dry season and permits the parasite to survive in the host as arrested L4 instead of maturing and producing eggs which would inevitably fail to develop on the arid pasture . |
| 11 | Mr Perez de Cuellar described South Africa 's attempt to interfere with the elections as ‘ highly problematical ’ , and announced new procedures for the vote , over four days beginning on 7 November . |
| 12 | In normal circumstances , where this incompatibility did not exist , if the testator had employed a trust clause he would be presumed to have intended the modality attaching to the institution to attach to the substitution as well . |
| 13 | No oranges will taste the same as those we ate on t hose Saturday mornings , saving the peel to throw at the screen when Roy Rogers brought out his guitar to serenade Dale Evans across a Texas campfire that was flickering in an enchanted cave in a Manchester street . |
| 14 | On the contrary , the TEI community is a particularly demanding one : the purpose of research is to discover solutions to problems that have not yet been posed , and any scheme designed to support research must therefore place more emphasis on flexibility and extensibility to cope with the unforeseen than on highly optimized solutions to well understood problems . |
| 15 | She paused and allowed her gaze to wander round the room before she said , ‘ I hate the authorities and their bits of paper . ’ |
| 16 | David Lawrence is certainly having a lot of work to do in the field as well as bowl , runs a long way , that 's to be better at deep back with square leg , in place of Philip DeFreitas and let Daffy do some running about , he 's just had a drink there . |
| 17 | In other words , they felt more confident about their capacity to deal with the tsar than at any point since the end of the 1820s . |
| 18 | The colour white signifies purity and death amongst High Elves , so the robes are a symbol of their unity and determination to fight to the death if necessary . |
| 19 | The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects . |
| 20 | Mills does n't expect REM to go on the road until after their 1993 record is released . |
| 21 | ( There was of course little incentive to plan for the future when work was often obtained on a casual basis and wages were irregular . ) |
| 22 | Provided that people in this country believed they had an honest system of government which dispensed even-handed justice , then there was no need to tamper with the law unless public order was threatened . |
| 23 | He said that the FIA tribunal had no right to rule on the case until a hearing in Portugal and should not have heard representation from Mansell and Ferrari at a hearing in Paris last Thursday . |
| 24 | The FIA tribunal postponed any decision , but Balestre said it had no right to rule on the case until after the Portuguese hearing and should not have heard representation . |
| 25 | ‘ It can provide them with a place to bask in the sun because the sand warms up quickly , ’ it comments . |
| 26 | Each of them had a job to do in the mornings before they left for school . |
| 27 | We 'll move to the m move to vote on the motion as moved by Councillor . |
| 28 | In such cases there is a reluctance to part with the house except on impossible terms : on a short lease or without any land to give it a moderate degree of privacy ; or there may be restrictions on the uses that are allowed — community uses only , perhaps , to be financed from public funds , which are not forthcoming . |
| 29 | The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future . |
| 30 | The Dutch , still reluctant to act without Britain , reserved their right to withdraw from the talks if they disliked the outcome . |