Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little girl described by Anna Freud got over her anxiety about seeing ghosts in the dark hall of her home by advising her brother , ‘ There 's no need to be afraid in the hall . |
| 2 | But winning the prize for Texas-style candour has been Billy Brown , who , when asked about allowing homosexuals into the armed forces , says ‘ Hell no ! |
| 3 | In one other sense fear was promoted by abolitionists as a motive for demanding abolition in the national interest — fear of divine judgement falling upon the guilty nation as a whole . |
| 4 | There are many issues where a N C V O should be exercising leadership , sometimes a rather difficult concept , and there is no need to apologise for that , for using leadership at the right time , but it has to be a leadership by consent , rather than claimed without authority , and it is in this context that the policy development department in N C V O exists , to help channel voluntary sector concerns to opinion formers , and policy makers , regardless of party politics , regardless of political commitment . |
| 5 | A study of the GEC bid to takeover Plessey outlines clearly the conflict that can exist between maintaining competition in the domestic market and restructuring an industry to enable it to compete with foreign competition , by allowing rationalisation to occur and encouraging the combined group to exploit economies of scale . |
| 6 | You will be unable to type , except for drawing lines with the arrowed direction keys |
| 7 | When we turn to the third section of Figure 1.10 , we see a wide range of devices for receiving information from the outside world , for transmitting information to the outside world , and for expanding the storage capacity of the computer . |
| 8 | He welcomed the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and William III appointed him a commissioner of the Admiralty , a responsibility he took very seriously , effectively using Whitehaven for gathering intelligence during the Irish war of 1689–90 . |
| 9 | If the national curriculum were about bringing difference Into the open instead of separating the desirable from the undesirable and suppressing the latter , we might see more people who are confident in their identity and can integrate from the basis of knowledge and strength rather than one of weakness . |
| 10 | An assortment of engines and carriages from yesteryear will transport you through unfolding countryside to the nostalgic accompaniment of escaping steam and whistles . |
| 11 | We have seen that by the time children start school they have developed the basic cognitive and linguistic abilities required for handling explanations in the empirical and intentional modes . |
| 12 | At this school I conducted interviews with 25 per cent of the staff , mostly those in senior positions and with responsibility for producing parts of the self-appraisal document . |
| 13 | This meant much detailed work , such as keeping track of the relative sizes of the workforces and payrolls of each operating company , the ratios of hourly , weekly and monthly employees , and frequent monitoring of the way these and other factors were changing . |
| 14 | In situations where sex is not an ‘ essential determinant ’ of a legal relationship , he appears to see no reason for denying recognition of the transsexual 's change . |
| 15 | Suggestions are also made for incorporating video into the overall teaching programme . |
| 16 | Can the practitioner avoid the problem ? — techniques for resolving conflicts under the general law |
| 17 | The single market is sure to have some impact on EDI use , but the main motivation for adopting EDI in the lean 1990s is competitive pressure . |
| 18 | Relations between peacekeeping forces of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) , and rebel leader Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , deteriorated sharply during September . |
| 19 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 20 | After gathering momentum over the past six months under the guidance of an Interim Action Board while fundamental matters such as constitution , scope , budgets and organisational structures were determined , DISC is now poised to seek confirmation from the BSI Board that DISC may be formally established within the BSI framework . |
| 21 | By contrast , the young ones were able to interest old people in the workings of microwave ovens ; after cooking lessons from the young six or seven old people went out and bought them ! |
| 22 | He was slain by a poisoned crossbow bolt fired by a Dark Elf assassin after bringing word to the Dark Elves ' enemy . |
| 23 | The merger agreement was signed yesterday after gaining approval from the Dutch regulatory authorities . |
| 24 | Immediately after announcing details of the new industrial policy Singh presented his first budget to the Lok Sabha . |
| 25 | After signing copies at the official launch on Saturday , Bob , who lives on the edge of Hartburn , said : ‘ The initial print-run was 1,000 and more than 500 have been sold already . ’ |
| 26 | However , US Secretary of State James Baker also conferred with de Klerk on March 22 , after meeting Mandela at the Namibian independence celebrations on March 21 . |
| 27 | William 's return to London in September 1690 , after securing victory over the French-backed Jacobite forces in Ireland , was greeted with bonfires and fireworks throughout the metropolis . |
| 28 | The 57-year-old was first taken ill in 1988 after coaching England at the European Championship finals , but recovered quickly to return to coaching . |
| 29 | After removing 50% of the natural curl , hair was cut short and layered . |
| 30 | If rates of sickness absence vary between individuals after taking account of the explanatory factors this may lead to extra variation ( overdispersion ) relative to that predicted from the Poisson model . |