Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gairns noted that proprieties were properly observed : ‘ a separate entrance to this department direct from the Stratford Road enables the girls to enter after and leave before the male employees . |
| 2 | It is widely believed both within TDC and by its critics that the relatively high pay levels established by the reforming directors of the 1950s and 1960s led to applications by , and the recruitment of , men who did not know of or subscribe to the old codes . |
| 3 | At the same time as the US sought to stiffen French resolve , at least to continue the war , it had to persuade France in effect to let go because , at the very least , it had recognized that the forces of what was nominally ‘ the French Union ’ in Indo-China in reality needed men : and these men would have to be found for and fight in the National Army of Vietnam . |
| 4 | Good music resembles good speech : a sentence needs to work towards a main point and then decline before beginning again , while in a whole speech we have to prepare for and build towards the main point of the argument . |
| 5 | Link the information systems plan to the corporate plan : provide an ‘ optimal project mix ’ which will be consistent with and link to the corporate plan , ideally over the same time period . |
| 6 | ‘ The line of authority is the route followed — via every link in the chain — by all communications which start from or go to the ultimate authority . |
| 7 | During the first three years of life the young child will venture out from and return to the secure base of a parent 's presence when conducting expeditions into unfamiliar territory . |
| 8 | These two chapters are therefore intentionally derivative and familiar in their themes to allow the arguments to build upon and add to the cumulative knowledge about routine police work . |
| 9 | The essential difference here is that an arbitration award is subject to appeal to or review by the High Court . |
| 10 | Clients many never actually buy or order something based on your own designs , however , they will relate to or identify with the intrinsic qualities that your designs and workmanship represent . |
| 11 | If you feel you would like to join in one of the training days , held at present in Horley , Surrey on or come to the Green Park Residential weekend 10.12 Nov. we will be delighted to welcome you , so , please give me a ring . |
| 12 | Although Pittsburgh was severely hit by the decline in the steel industry , its tertiary and quaternary sectors were thriving and there were demands on the city to respond to and cater for the large number of firms locating and expanding their professional and managerial activities there . |
| 13 | The Working Party believed , and those we consulted concurred whole-heartedly , that competence in English is important , both in its own right and to enable pupils to gain access to and benefit from the other subjects of the National Curriculum . |
| 14 | He should further refer to and reflect upon the continuous Labour search for excuses for crime rather than for the introduction of any sensible policies to deal with crime . |
| 15 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visual form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 16 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visible form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 17 | Effective school management uses external initiatives as a prompt to and support for the logical next stage of a school 's development . |
| 18 | We do not need a fund to get there but rather we need to face up to and deal with the systematic discrimination that women face . ’ |
| 19 | It would make very significant incursions into our much against our wishes , to accommodate that , so that we would be looking to North Yorkshire to and work to the same levels of migration , the trend in migration as it were . |