Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.59 The third ground for defending an application is that the defendant from whom the interim payment is sought is not a person who appears to the court to fall within one of the categories listed in Ord 29 , r11(2) , namely : ( a ) a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim ; ( b ) a public authority ; or ( c ) a person whose means and resources are such as to enable him to make the interim payment . |
| 2 | My thanks to David Bogie , studio manager and Fish for their time and patience — and for allowing me to visit the Funny Farm . |
| 3 | The three , all members of the legislature 's trade and industry committee , were accused of having accepted $60,000 from the Korean Automobiles Manufacturers ' Association in return for helping it to gain the National Assembly 's approval for a package of state aid . |
| 4 | The Jungian concept of synchronicity was much on his mind because he was toying with the idea of using it to underpin the narrative structure of London . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the race is on among the other cosmetic companies to come up with even more original ways of helping you to make the right make-up choices . |
| 6 | She accused me of instructing them to dig the wrong grave , which I did n't and I immediately defended myself and said : ‘ Mary , I did not . |
| 7 | A lot of folks drop their guard when they think they 're dealing with a man of simple mind — and if behind that kind of pose you hide the steely determination I 've been trying to drum into you , son , you 'll do just fine . " |
| 8 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |
| 9 | The possibilities for recasting the UK accounts are being examined , with the intention of making them reflect the real resource use , or output contribution , of the public sector , rather than simply its share of expenditure . |
| 10 | One of the first problems faced by the Republic was that most of the colonies outside New England were loyal to the Stuart monarchs , and so in the early 1650s considerable effort had to be put into making them accept the new government . |
| 11 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 12 | And Dearle claimed that in addition to the small scale of their work and the inexperience of their members , the committees also suffered from a difficulty in gaining the support of employers , especially in persuading them to grant the young worker time off for further education . |
| 13 | They see no problem in joining us to visit the elderly of the village ’ . |
| 14 | The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 15 | In Bejing he met the Chinese President , Yang Shangkun , the Prime Minister , Li Peng , and other senior officials . |
| 16 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 17 | Above Planing the lute ribs to a thickness of just 1½mm before curving them to form the bowl-shaped back |
| 18 | In the attainment targets for reading we included the following for levels 8 , 9 and 10 : ‘ Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the twentieth century and works from different cultures . ’ |
| 19 | Thank you very much for inviting me to attend the forthcoming AGM in Aberystwyth . |
| 20 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 21 | The question , therefore , was how to satisfy the aspirations of the political groupings , without allowing them to gain the upper hand ; how to make use of their mobilizing capacities , without these being used to ends other than those approved by the Commander-in-Chief , Generalísimo Franco . |
| 22 | And in the moment that she laid herself open to dying she heard the whispery voices of the wild beasts in the wilderness : |
| 23 | On graduating he joined the Geological Survey in 1875 , working in the Teesdale and Cheviot districts until 1884 , when he was posted to the Survey 's Edinburgh office . |
| 24 | He blames Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell for making him sign the public immunity certificate . |
| 25 | the , the , the implication is always erm that you 've got to make some sort of choice between do we get the social change first , which gives rise to a different kind of people , better people , or do we first of all change the people so that they 're capable of making a better world and of course it 's a catch twenty two , is n't it ? |
| 26 | In an interview in The Washington Post published on May 30 , Barry admitted having smoked crack but blamed the federal authorities for having led him on and accused them of having tried to " kill " him by allowing him to consume the illegal drug . |
| 27 | The HHA is to undertake a major dredging scheme at the port this year and is eager to co-operate with the NRA by allowing it to use the extracted sand , clay , gravel and rock as a barrier to sea erosion on sites like The Naze . |
| 28 | In this section the facility of the Laplace transformation technique will be demonstrated by applying it to find the transient response in a few illustrative cases . |
| 29 | This protects users ' investments in equipment by enabling them to buy the enhanced management and security of higher Tiers as their requirements dictate . |
| 30 | From the creative user 's point of view , the problem with ‘ lifestyle ’ approaches is that they attempt to generalize , and by generalizing they lose the fine detail that distinguishes habits and attitudes in any individual market . |