Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 2 | Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict . |
| 3 | They are likely to be allowed less freedom to go out on the streets and stay out late . |
| 4 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 5 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 6 | However , the Court had also held in Case 362/90 , d'Urso , [ 1990 ] 1 ECR 4105 that a collective decision to contract out of the Directive was not binding on individual employees who wish subsequently to transfer . |
| 7 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 8 | Anaesthetist Dr Gouri Shankar said the fracture would not have affected his decision to go ahead with the surgery . |
| 9 | Anaesthetist Dr Gouri Shankar said the fracture would not have affected his decision to go ahead with the surgery . |
| 10 | The decision to go ahead with the press conference two days later was finalised ; Pons edited a note alerting his staff to this effect , called Jones on the phone to reconfirm the joint submission for Friday the 24th but , according to Jones , said nothing about the press conference planned for the day before nor of the 11 March submission by Pons to the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry . |
| 11 | The growing popular discontent , together with mounting evidence of serious effects on local people 's health , is seen as a key reason behind the decision to go ahead with the Temelin reactor [ see above ] . |
| 12 | They warn that the Botswana could face a consumer boycott of its beef exports if the decision to go ahead with the fence is not dropped . |
| 13 | On July 25 the federal government approved the Slovak government 's decision to go ahead with the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , originally part of a joint Hungarian-Czechoslovakian scheme from which Hungary had withdrawn in 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] and to put the power station into operation from October as " a temporary measure " . |
| 14 | Thus , given liberty and the opportunity to cope realistically with the problem of getting enough to eat the dream process was no longer invoked . |
| 15 | Nesbitt had met the Sultan on the outskirts of Aussa and been given permission to continue northwards across the lava desert to Eritrea , but was forbidden to enter Aussa , which remained unexplored . |
| 16 | While that 's clearly the most important consideration for each of the districts over the next few months , while the selection process is going on , er bearing in mind what 's said in P P G three , we regard that as axiomatic and I I find it inconceivable that the the department would allow any new settlement to proceed nowadays without the agreement of the district council . |
| 17 | Extraordinary that the Soviets had not already grilled and broken this man , unbelievable that they had permitted a trial for espionage to go ahead without the evidence of a confession . |
| 18 | " They asked if they might come to see the palais , but they had of course to remain outside in the gardens with their nurse where they can do no damage . " |
| 19 | Bishop Harris , who has welcomed me so warmly , has expressed his willingness to continue on until the end of the year whilst I complete my own duties in Westminster diocese . |
| 20 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 21 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 22 | The fund had acted as a conduit for the money from ivory trade associations in Japan for one year , but this was stopped by Mr Lapointe , Mr Bohlen said , because he wanted the money to go directly to the secretariat . |
| 23 | Well erm David said that he did n't think the strike would have gone on or they would n't have the heart to go on without the women ? |
| 24 | ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Brother , ’ he whispered , ‘ we have the Regent 's permission to go down to the Springall house now , to examine and take anything we wish . |
| 26 | Environmentalists in Czechoslovakia are becoming increasingly critical of their government 's decision to proceed unilaterally with the project . |
| 27 | He and Liena conversed for a while before he announced his decision to wait there for the return of Tony and Ferdy ( the Germans ) , and Dave the American , asking me to take care of Liena on the way down . |
| 28 | It now made open confession of its inability to cope alone with the crisis initiated by Perry 's arrival . |
| 29 | Tipping the handgrip back to the vertical allows the mercury to flow back into the bottom of the cup , so breaking the contact . |
| 30 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |