Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 2 | To refer again to the rise in interest rates in 1988 , the cost of personal and business borrowing is approaching levels which in real terms ( after taking away the effects of inflation ) are high . |
| 3 | A week after Chapman 's resignation George Cripps also left the club , after handing over the books for the previous two years to Mr J. W. Bromley , a former director . |
| 4 | then said that he found other difficulties in Lord Roskill 's speech in Reg. v. Morris , and after setting out the facts of the case and quoting a long passage from that speech , at p. 332 , and also the answer to the certified question he continued , at pp. 283–284 : |
| 5 | I also met the police station er Sergeant and and after discussing further the matters with him erm then I was happy an armed operation was er was necessary . |
| 6 | So , while it is always worth seeking out the names of journalists who have a special interest in your subject , and if appropriate sending the releases to them at home as well as to their office , always be sure to send your releases to the newsdesk and perhaps to one or two others on the paper too if it is appropriate . |
| 7 | Rachel Billington went for Powell and Iris Murdoch ( ‘ If we 're talking about pushing forward the boundaries of the novel ’ ) . |
| 8 | Thus , methods of drawing together the components of care were developed , especially in federally funded initiatives such as the Community Support Program . |
| 9 | For the first time the new cannon offered relative ease of production , and a greater degree of safety in use , unlike the former practice of building up the guns from iron bands held together with loops . |
| 10 | I did get and proved the place I 've been going that actually more accidents due to blocking and you sort of back up the stairs with you |
| 11 | Resistance to this proposal came especially from the SPD in both East and West Germany , which supported the idea of early unification but not of bringing forward the elections in the West . |
| 12 | He was a gentle , kindly old man ( a tailor by trade ) who was happy to leave his wife in complete charge of bringing up the kids in her own way . |
| 13 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 14 | Third , if the crude mechanism of totting up the votes for different parties is to be employed for the purpose of supporting a specific contention , there is the inconvenient fact that 79 per cent of those who voted in Scotland backed parties that wish to maintain the Union . |
| 15 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 16 | The second innovation can come , in this post ERA environment , by a steady reformulation of management systems and structures within schools and colleges — a version of flat topping , of stripping out the layers of management and the filters through which messages can be confused and made more complex . |
| 17 | At one of their great festivals they have the ritual of driving out the devils from their bodies . |
| 18 | The second is that the statutory services do not have the monopoly of altruism or the monopoly of occupying the high moral ground , and I think that those of you who saw the presentation given yesterday afternoon by Mike O'Reilly on the work that 's being done at Knowesouth , the private home he and his wife run , would have to concede that that was an excellent example of the kind of not only interesting , but the kind of pushing forward the boundaries of what can be done in different kinds of settings for people with dementia . |
| 19 | Says Dent : ‘ The plastics industry has a tradition of pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 20 | Powerful groups have ways and means of clawing back the spoils of tactical defeats . |
| 21 | By that time there was already an appreciation that very substantial currents of water were necessary to transport coarse sediments but , without systematic means of establishing precisely the sizes of particles and the range of particle sizes within a deposit , little scientific advance was made . |
| 22 | This is essential if assessment is to fulfil its promise of meeting better the needs of older people and their carers . |
| 23 | However things turn out , try to reflect the mood of the scene by the pace of the cutting of your shots : if the children are quiet and thoughtful , the shots can be held a little longer than if they are lively and excited ( provided that the adult does a good job of filling in the gaps in the action ) . |
| 24 | The use of the layby , however , gave concern and councillors suggested looking at the possibility of filling in the laybys along Trinity Hill to prevent further incidents . |
| 25 | As yet there are no estimates of the cost of cleaning up the areas around the mines , but it is likely to be very high . |
| 26 | Two mixes of ‘ House Of Usher ’ finish off the EP , and you 're left fearful of turning out the lights at night . |
| 27 | The scathing attack came just two years after Sir Claus had caused a storm by warning our crumbling schools were in danger of turning out the dunces of Europe . |
| 28 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 29 | ‘ Now they seem to be taking the same supine approach to the milk and potato marketing boards , where the Government is in the process of selling out the interests of farmers . |
| 30 | However , this concern may not be wholly justified as he has been an active member of the CNAA and is known to be a keen supporter of public sector provision and an advocate of breaking down the barriers between the two sectors of higher education . |