Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that motivation appears to be weak or there is marked ambivalence , it is worth reflecting upon what the old person wants to be able to do ! |
| 2 | The growing ‘ added value ’ areas such as catering in which the regional brewers have less experience . |
| 3 | However , the dissemination of this knowledge to newcomers has the additional purpose of inculcating in them the common sense that is necessary to police Easton . |
| 4 | Nature printing is a very good example of a field of collecting in which the serious student can come to command a knowledge and expertise that the general bookseller is unlikely to match . |
| 5 | It is also unusual in including material about peace-keeping operations , a testing form of soldiering in which the Canadian armed forces have become experts in the last four decades . |
| 6 | Thus far , French princes — with the notable exception of the Norman king-duke — had been wary of claiming for themselves the peace-keeping function within their lands . |
| 7 | The Leader of the Party in the House of Lords , the Chief Whip in the House of Lords , the chairman of the National Union and the chairman of the Executive of the National Union , together with the president of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association , will on the Monday attend a meeting of the Executive of the 1922 Committee for the purpose of conveying to them the collective views of the peers in receipt of the Conservative whip , the National Union and the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association respectively . |
| 8 | Betrayed by one of the inner circle of disciples , Judas , he was arrested and , at passover-time probably in the year 30 of our era , executed by crucifixion — a method of killing in which the preceding torture is prolonged as long as possible , death being certain . |
| 9 | Third , the common feature of most routes will be the reliance on a rational reconstruction of a process of bargaining by which the common overriding goal of reaching an agreement leads the parties to compromise by accepting a less than perfect doctrine as the optimally realizable second best . |
| 10 | It was a form of bargaining in which the enforced departure of the customer placed all power in his hands . |
| 11 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 12 | Another important aspect of diversification is the need for retraining in which the agricultural training board has a dynamic role to play . |
| 13 | Lawrence does not neglect sound effects in impressing on us the harsh sensory qualities of the industrial scene . |
| 14 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 15 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 16 | But it has been commonly supposed that specifications along threshold level lines must be universally relevant , without reference to the definition of objectives for learning on which the original threshold level specifications are based . |
| 17 | When these methods work well ( and I write from experience ) such schools are places of tremendous enthusiasm for learning in which the great majority of children make rapid progress in academic studies and in social skills . |
| 18 | Nineteenth-century liberalism was to inherit hostility to religious charity without substituting for it the planned charity of the state . |
| 19 | Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ? |
| 20 | First we checked what the food supplies were like in the area simply by looking at what the local cats were bringing in . |
| 21 | In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup . |
| 22 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |