Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're after an excuse to go on the prowl round those fashion-shops again — is n't that the truth of it ? ’ |
| 2 | He is sufficient of a realist to concede at the end of his argument that in fact they did not support him , but supported the argument on behalf of the Attorney-General . |
| 3 | Yes in the vicin I I did n't know the cupboards were near the bed , but yes , in relation to the bed those two places would it have taken a fraction of a second to strip off the duvet to check what was under it . |
| 4 | 5.6 makes it obligatory ( with certain exceptions ) for a person conducting building operations or changing the use of a building to apply to the buildings authority for a warrant authorising the proposed works . |
| 5 | Universities are now governed on the principle that it is right and natural for the management of a university to respond to the opinion of the students — a thing which is manifestly absurd . |
| 6 | Mr J. Ferguson , 2 Viewfield Road was appointed chairman of a committee to deal with the matter . |
| 7 | ‘ I explained it was a bit of a flap to go for the train this afternoon . |
| 8 | One or two short climbs in cloud do not prove the ability of a pilot to cope with the required longer periods of concentration and more varied conditions in larger clouds . |
| 9 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 10 | But I mean it was a hell of a way to work at the same time . |
| 11 | 5.9.9.4 not to agree upon the appointment of a person to act as the third party determining the rent in default of agreement without the approval of the Landlord |
| 12 | maximum value of a voucher to help with the cost of glasses or contact lenses |
| 13 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 14 | Since the time of Winckelmann , Goethe and Schiller , the German attempt to recreate the achievement of ancient Greek culture has grown increasingly feebler because of a failure to penetrate into the essence of the Greek spirit . |
| 15 | Out of a desire to protest against the ‘ oppression and exploitation ’ he saw around him , he began to write short stories , by the time of his death over a hundred had been published . |
| 16 | By a deathbed grant he ensured the foundation at Denhall in the Wirral of a hospital to care for the poor and for those shipwrecked on the passage to Ireland . |
| 17 | It is a measure of the ability of a chain to rotate about the constituent chain bonds , hence a flexible chain has a low T g whereas a rigid chain has a high T g . |
| 18 | The moneys were paid over by the plaintiffs to avoid the apprehended consequence of a refusal to submit to the authority . |
| 19 | Although in some branches of the law a defendant may be treated as intending the known inevitable or likely consequences of his act , that is not so here , for it would stretch the tort too far to impose liability where ‘ the reasons which actuate the defendant to use unlawful means are wholly independent of a wish to interfere with the plaintiff 's business , such interference being no more than an incidental consequence foreseen by and gratifying to the defendant . ’ |
| 20 | He said : ‘ Do n't say you 're in too much of a hurry to look into the cathedral before you go . ’ |
| 21 | High notes have become less of a strain to play since the well-nigh total adoption of the ‘ double horn ’ . |
| 22 | Gena Corea , a co-founder of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy quoted from the American Fertility Society 's ethical report , ’ The primary medical indication for use of a surrogate mother is the inability of a woman to provide with the genetic ( the egg ) or the gestation component ( the uterus ) for childbearing ’ . |
| 23 | Such an aim precludes the production of a strategy to deal with the manifest traffic-related problems of existing residential areas , so that the manuals should not be criticised for what they were not designed to do . |
| 24 | BREWER and retailer Whitbread has begun advising more than 1,000 of its tenants that it has arranged deals to lease their pubs to a string of brewers and pub groups as part of a move to comply with the Government 's beer orders . |
| 25 | Linebacker Gary Plummer said : ‘ We have n't given the fans a heck of a lot to cheer in the seven years I 've been here . |
| 26 | Treaty ( principle of non-discrimination on the ground of nationality ) and article 52 ( right of establishment ) , and whether the answer to that question was affected by the existence of a power to dispense with the nationality requirement in the case of individuals and by the existence of national fishing catch quotas allocated by the Community pursuant to the Common Fisheries Policy . |
| 27 | In Precedent 1 , cl 5.5 gives an example of a simple retention of title clause , coupled with the express grant of a power to sue for the price , once the due date for payment has come , even though property has not passed . |
| 28 | A line of girls sits at the bar , ready at the jerk of a head or the flick of a finger to minister to the solitary Somerset Maughams at every table with drinks , smiles and conversation in carefully-broken Americanisms . |
| 29 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |
| 30 | The dumping of British industrial waste in the North Sea is continuing despite an agreement to stop by the end of 1989. 15 . |