Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [coord] the " in BNC.

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1 They will observe the process of making clients welcome ; the process of listening to clients ; of summarising their problems and the type of questions asked by advisers to help clients explain their problems .
2 I think the quite clearly what comes out erm of reading our papers and the papers of the district , is the er tremendous degree of consultation that 's taken place on a number of occasions back and forth between district and making use of er of emerging working on er on local plans across the county .
3 Miller had two uncanny knacks — one of missing other vehicles , or walls , or signposts , by inches , and the second of missing their destinations and the action by a mile .
4 Amazingly , the 1979 Tory party manifesto warned : ‘ The prospect of very high interest rates deters some people from buying their homes and the reality can cause acute difficulties to those who have done so . ’
5 Because the steam is generated in a separate tank and then passed at pressure through a pipe onto the iron 's soleplate , drips , leaks , calcium and other nasties are prevented from staining your clothes and the life of the iron is prolonged .
6 He took immense trouble in preparing his lectures and the experimental demonstrations that accompanied them .
7 Business is familiar with the counter-productive nature of narrowly conceived appraisal ; educators in schools need help in convincing their employers and the government of the importance of taking a developmental approach to appraisal .
8 But it is still the case that such countries have considerable difficulty in servicing their debts and the debt problem continues to be serious .
9 prevented the King 's officers from levying his rents and the amercements incurred by the King 's tenants in the Forest courts , or executing the orders of the King and of the King 's justices and other ministers .
10 Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata .
11 Chronic repeaters therefore should be the focus of intensive research aimed , first , at describing their difficulties and the reasons for the behaviour , and secondly , at evaluation of different methods of management , including the possible role of medication .
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