Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually this became independent ; now it produces sought after family shows to entertain the elderly and to raise funds for charity . |
| 2 | In general , the opposite is the case : the scale of the research and the kind of expertise required to assess the scientific , and therefore the ethical , validity are such that the research is best considered centrally . |
| 3 | From the turbulent seas the Hosts of Chaos emerged to slaughter the defenceless Elves . |
| 4 | The regime of course wants to keep the old order the A N C and freedom-loving people want a new order and a quick change but how do you mo move to that situation when you also have the right wing and the security forces and elsewhere not wanting change ? |
| 5 | Richard Botwood and his excellent team continued their cost-containment programme ( but still of course working to provide the value-for-money service members look for ) , so that we finished the year with an acceptable surplus of £35,231 to be used for the benefit of CIT members and transport in general . |
| 6 | Very much to the benefit of the college , Hargreaves had the personality and the authority of experience needed to implement the legal requirements in the academic workplace without causing rancour or resentment . |
| 7 | We are in the Old Vicarage Farm now , which Johnson describes as a pretentious heap of shit built to impress the local peasants . |
| 8 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 9 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 10 | Firms still choose the quantity of labour demanded to equate the gross wage to the marginal value product of labour . |
| 11 | Thus the existence of coalition served to divide the collective leadership by separating those who had power and influence from those who did not , by separating the senior men from their junior colleagues and by cutting off those under the Prime Minister 's influence from the rest . |
| 12 | The Personnel Manager has advised Heads of Department to continue to operate the present voluntary screening programme except : — |
| 13 | Alternatively , from the mid-1970s , a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party . |
| 14 | Looking upwards , she saw that no window had yet been built into the end wall at the top of the stairs , and this lack of light helped to emphasize the Stygian gloom in which she stood . |
| 15 | This may be a sickly , peevish fairy child , an aged fairy no longer of value , or even a piece of wood carved to resemble the stolen child . |
| 16 | Einstein 's general theory of relativity seems to govern the large-scale structure of the universe . |
| 17 | The transference of Ernest Bevin direct from the leadership of Britain 's largest trade union to the Ministry of Labour , symbolized Labour 's role in the new order — not least because Bevin 's control over the allocation of manpower came to displace the traditional operations of the Treasury , as the lynch-pin of Government economic management . |
| 18 | It is not self-evident that all clarifications or developments of the laws of war have to take the familiar form of multilateral conventions . |
| 19 | After appearing on a television programme in Scotland , I was asked by an eminent Professor of Physiology to try to establish the long-term success of my Hip and Thigh Diet slimmers . |
| 20 | It is appropriate to begin with the forms of propaganda adopted to convey the particular arguments and the broader ideological perspectives analysed in the last chapter . |
| 21 | Again , this is another sign of self-interest seeming to dominate the professional public interest covenant . |
| 22 | But the amount of paper needed to produce the obese Sunday edition can cost three times its $1.50 cover price . |
| 23 | The many coats of paint helped to preserve the P-40 ready for the day when she would fly again . |
| 24 | Apart from conviction each new voice of authority appears to have the same weight as the one we believe , and every moment of unreality calls in question the reality of all past experience . |
| 25 | Sometimes the closure of a through ‘ freight only ’ route and the consequent diversion of traffic fails to bring the desired results . |
| 26 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 27 | This kind of no-strings-attached use of sex seems to combine the best of both worlds , leaving a woman free to pursue her career and a man unshackled by the commitments of a heavy mortgage and all the other responsibilities that go with a family . |
| 28 | The neat pile of coal used to fuel the open fireplace in the waiting-room lay to one side , just as she remembered it . |
| 29 | This kind of repetition serves to consolidate the main message of the text ( which may otherwise not be sufficiently evident ) , and can also conveniently serve the ends ( through musical restatement ) of giving a strong , coherent musical form . |
| 30 | This exhibition has been sponsored jointly by An Post and the Office of Public Works to mark the 75th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising . |