Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 2 | This demand for money arises to enable the community to fulfil its planned expenditures during the intervening periods between receipts of wages , salaries or other forms of income . |
| 3 | The best of these sausages are loose or in jars — I find that the necessary temperatures achieved during canning tend to make the sausages rather fatty and slimy in texture . |
| 4 | Nkumbula 's departure came the day after parliament refused to accept the report of a committee which had investigated the abuse of public funds by Cabinet ministers . |
| 5 | These successes for the SPD and the Greens were due in large measure to declining public confidence in Kohl 's leadership , especially after tax increases to meet the costs of unification became inevitable despite election promises by Kohl that they would not be necessary [ see pp. 37904 ; 38297 ; 38109 ] . |
| 6 | Digging spade Essential for winter digging to leave the soil rough , for digging trenches and large planting holes for shrubs , etc , and any other general shovelling . |
| 7 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 8 | Cabinets were therefore often divided by personal rivalries — the schisms in those led by Sir Robert Walpole ( First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1721–42 ) are a good example — and this lack of unity tended to increase the influence the king could exert over individual ministers and the Cabinet as a whole . |
| 9 | The lashing rain had just started and as she spoke a great roll of thunder seemed to shake the house . |
| 10 | In the West , the notion of freedom seeks to increase the potential for action in the outer world while keeping the inner state as constant , and rational , as possible . |
| 11 | Stockport was far from London and perhaps the burden of responsibility seemed to outweigh the £2 13 4d . |
| 12 | The Governor of Kenya and the Minister of Defence came to inspect the camp . |
| 13 | ‘ Never , perhaps , before was such a suit of mourning seen to distinguish the mourner-in-chief ; no long black cloak , no scarf , no hatband , no gloves … |
| 14 | Of course consent to obey the law is not a necessary condition of such an attitude . |
| 15 | Stop , we will of course continue to put the varieties into unofficial trials , bracket and will pay the fees in full close brackets , in good faith on the understanding that when the varieties are to go into U K official trials , the position of your company will have been resolved and you will then be in a position to offer us the excrusive , exclusive rights at that time . |
| 16 | But certainly when we in the regional office get that that advice before before we put a submission to ministers , we will of course try to reconcile the figures so that they are on a consistent basis . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't of course need to duplicate the police enquiries about Mrs … |
| 18 | Your analogy would be more accurate if you 'd talked of a mechanic saying he was going to the boot of my car to check the battery , having of course meant to say the bonnet . |
| 19 | It takes the form of a legally binding contract and the normal rules of contract apply to establish the existence , meaning and effect of the agreement . |
| 20 | The requirement of dishonesty seems to confirm the need for subjective recklessness . |
| 21 | The transnational corporations strive to control global capital and material resources , the transnational capitalist classes strive to control global power , and the transnational agents and institutions of the culture-ideology of consumerism strive to control the realm of ideas . |
| 22 | They concluded that two kinds of response serving to control the meaning of the event by neutralising its economic threat were helpful . |
| 23 | The notion of implicature promises to bridge the gap , by giving some account of how at least large portions of the italicized material in ( 3 ) are effectively conveyed . |
| 24 | The sum of money needed to restore the balance to the original amount is known as the imprest . |
| 25 | People offered to raise whatever sum of money needed to keep the Community Radio Station on the air ; even those who never cared or listened much , now felt that 1OAB must be preserved ! |
| 26 | The president has kept the SSC in the budget , but is not providing the amount of money required to allow the programme to follow its original schedule . |
| 27 | This way of rising helps to maintain the length of spine which has been achieved while lying . |
| 28 | Where projects extend between years it is important to have a view of expected completion dates and the level of bidding needed to replace the activity lost . |
| 29 | Over 100 Labour Members of Parliament began to urge the government to dissociate itself entirely from the war . |
| 30 | Neurophysiological accounts of consciousness fail to address the problem of the unities of human consciousness . |