Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For such a result to have occurred in the birth-place of European integration even two years ago would have been unthinkable . |
| 2 | BUY yourself a plastic bulb baster to get rid of the grease on your gravy . |
| 3 | But it was an elderly shipwright on the beach who explained that all foreigners were called that here , since the only other outsider to have lived in the village was an Englishman named Collins , who , it turned out , had spent many months here during the 1930s . |
| 4 | Klein is not the only psychoanalyst to have commented upon the place of material objects in play . |
| 5 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 6 | In this model it is proposed that thinning of the lithosphere and its partial replacement by hot asthenosphere might allow convective upwelling to become established below the zone of extension . |
| 7 | While such graphic interpretations of how Hendrix and his music influenced artists of the '60s were important , the brains behind the exhibition felt that the man was too big an icon to remain stuck in the past . |
| 8 | The Jewish law expected a boy to get married between the age of thirteen and eighteen to a Jewish girl aged twelve-and-a-half to fifteen ! ! |
| 9 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 10 | Plans to build a ‘ flying village ’ of apartments complete with hangars at Amougies Airfield in Belgium ( Pilot Notes , January 1992 ) appear to have received enough support for the developer to get started on the construction . |
| 11 | 200 yds later take clear path on left leading down through forest to bridge crossed near the start of the walk . |
| 12 | Had the Israelites been polytheists , like all the other peoples of the ancient world , a natural conclusion to have drawn from the defeat would have been that their god or gods had been overcome by the gods of the Philistines . |
| 13 | Day Two : Arrival at Hook of Holland at 7 a.m. for an onward rail journey to Hilversum ( via Amsterdam ) where the arrival at your hotel is approximately 10.30 a.m. collect your bicycle and take a tour of the town to get acquainted with the cycle and the special cyclist paths . |
| 14 | There were decisions to be made , and foremost was the need to get rid of the jade . |
| 15 | A change of greenbelt status , and changes to a proposed greenbelt boundary variously affecting the combined area known for the purposes of this enquiry as D thirty nine and D forty , north of Skelton Village , have been proposed in the deposit copies , and in the desire to change proposed by the county and local planning authorities , and sundry valid representations have been lodged relating to the exclusion of all or parts of the area of the greenbelt . |
| 16 | The company would have a national insurance charge to pay based on the car scale charge ( and fuel scale charge if applicable ) . |
| 17 | Spike , the most forceful and ambitious black director to have emerged in the history of American cinema , went on to make ‘ Do The Right Thing ’ , which grossed $28 million in America in 1989 . |
| 18 | Is my constituent right to feel embittered against the Government ? |
| 19 | His prize was three hundred pounds and the silver cup and let's hope his is not the last name to get engraved on the Tour of Cotswolds Trophy |
| 20 | A deputy of Sproull 's reputation , officiating in the regality court , would be certain to make enemies for the politician who appointed him , and Gorthie strongly advised the duke to get rid of the bailie-depute immediately . |
| 21 | The coast attracts many species not found elsewhere in Britain , and sometimes quite rare birds are blown off course to land exhausted on the mainland peninsula or the Isles of Scilly . |
| 22 | 2 Use a skewer to poke holed in the orange around the sticky tape . |
| 23 | The board of the faculty shall deem a student to have withdrawn from the University if the student has been absent without leave from prescribed instruction for a period of four weeks . |
| 24 | If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 25 | I am disappointed that the statement does not contain a commitment to get rid of the poll tax in Scotland a year earlier , because it was inflicted on Scotland a year before everyone else . |
| 26 | Mr Major 's claim to have emerged from the shadow of his predecessor will be tested in July when he takes over the presidency of the EC for six months . |
| 27 | There was talk of Mrs Stowe 's claim to have conversed with the spirit of Charlotte Brontë . |
| 28 | The correct approach here is to cut down the obligation to perform undertaken under the contract , rather than attempt to impose an exemption clause covering the liability for a breach committed . |
| 29 | Some ‘ authorities ’ suggest using washing-up liquid to get rid of the oil . |
| 30 | George Hay ( 1987 ) has shown how this approach to antitrust survived into the post Second World War period with the adverse judgements in the Alcoa and United Shoe Machinery cases , where the companies concerned were condemned for ‘ monopolization ’ of their respective markets , despite the fact that they had only employed normal competitive means to acquire and maintain their dominant positions . |