Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional journals such as The Times Educational Supplement , Child Education and Junior Education will carry photographs and features on innovative work taking place at the school , these can be reproduced for parents to reinforce the message that their children 's school is a leader . |
| 2 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 3 | There were therefore a number of attempts to avoid the conclusion that there had been a big bang . |
| 4 | Part of the trouble stemmed from a dislike of Sandys ' refusal to heed professional advice , and from his propensity for allowing the senior civil servants in the Ministry of Defence to usurp the powers that properly belonged to the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 5 | The point of all this was of course to reinforce the belief that the after-life was a paradise , even if only achievable with certainty through death in battle , and thus to improve the combativeness of the assassins . |
| 6 | Adaptation as a concept was perfectly acceptable to the nineteenth-century naturalist — they had , after all , had plenty of opportunity to observe the changes that an English climate wrought on the coats and plumage , as well as the size , of live birds and animals brought from hot countries . |
| 7 | She knew there was something untoward afoot , so she apparently had the presence of mind to count the doors that opened , the strides she took and the stairs she mounted . |
| 8 | The first assembles a collage of images to confirm the proposition that ‘ love — power = sadism + masochism ’ ( Sukenick 1975 : 7 ) . |
| 9 | It is necessary therefore for the providers of funds to understand the ploys that will be used to obtain funds in what some authors term ‘ the budget game ’ . |
| 10 | Was he able to discuss with President Yeltsin the problems of the old Soviet bureaucracy in Russia and the way in which it is inhibiting the ability of the people of Russia to receive the aid that they deserve ? |
| 11 | More programmes were coming out of Bristol to offset the criticism that we were too slanted towards Wales . |
| 12 | " It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours . |
| 13 | Numbers can usually be presented in a variety of ways to suit the story that you want to tell . |
| 14 | Maggie takes a sip of beer to remind the others that that 's all she 's there for , and looks defiantly around . |
| 15 | I shall examine one recently published set of materials to illustrate the difficulties that arise with this approach . |
| 16 | Civil servants accepted ‘ the truths of political economy ’ ; it was the task of government to remove the obstacles that lay in the path of ‘ felicity ’ . |
| 17 | a definite mandate directed towards citizens to take whatever steps are available to them to achieve a law-oriented foreign policy for their own country , including , as both conscience and good sense dictate , non-violent acts of civil disobedience , and efforts to persuade members of all branches of government to overcome the gap that separates the normative consensus of the public as to the illegality of the use of nuclear weapons from prevailing official policies . |
| 18 | Thus , the Scottish Law Commission in para 5:23 of their Memorandum 25 , observed that s62(4) : … is of importance since the introduction of the rule that property in sale might pass without delivery would otherwise have been possible by resort to transactions in the form of sale to circumvent the rule that a security over moveables may not generally be constituted without transfer to them . |
| 19 | It is almost at the level of cliché to make the point that education at school is , outside the family , the most important means by which children are socialised . |
| 20 | I make reassuring noises , and accept another mug of coffee to clear the silt that 's in my brain . |
| 21 | It is not , of course , easy to identify areas where spillovers are likely to be large a priori , but neither initiative calls for participants to make the case that the potential gains from their particular venture are likely to be large . |
| 22 | It provides for the setting of guaranteed service standards and for customers to know the service that they will receive . |
| 23 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |
| 24 | By a process of elimination , the offending electrical equipment was removed , and after treatment with antibiotics to remove the infections that accompany lateral line disease the fish he had ( Blue Tang and Korean Angel ) recovered . |
| 25 | PRESIDENT-elect Bill Clinton kept a careful distance from world problems yesterday as he worked with aides to plan the administration that will take over the world 's most powerful country when he takes the oath of office on January 20 . |
| 26 | Indeed , with embryonic OLTP products like Unix System Labs 's Tuxedo , Transarc Corp 's Encina and now IBM 's CICS/6000 already struggling for mind and market share , X/Open will be under pressure to avoid the problems that it faced — and to some extent still does — over the lack of a standard for graphical user interfaces , GUIs . |
| 27 | It is frequently difficult for staff to accept the notion that anyone other than teachers should have an active part to play in the development of the school and they are often suspicious of the motives of parents who wish to take an extensive part in school life . |
| 28 | The division of labour here is a notion used in part to express the fact that with more complex technology one gets more specialization in society , however for Marx and Engels such differentiation also always implies inequality . |
| 29 | Homographs may need a modifier in parenthesis to clarify the meaning that is associated with them , for example Cold ( Disease ) |
| 30 | He will use the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen to dismiss the charge that he is not up to being Prime Minister . |