Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crop rotation can also help reduce the opportunity for resistance to develop in the insect population . |
| 2 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 3 | The commission created a subcommission of members in Paris with Friedel as chairman to work on the document . |
| 4 | In the most emotional speech of the day , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Vice-President , appealed for parliament to come to the aid of the Russian minority in the TransDniestr region of Moldova , the scene of bitter fighting in recent months . |
| 5 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 6 | A Ask your teacher for permission to go to the Matron 's Room . |
| 7 | JOHN Dee Skip Hire , of Albert Road , Darlington , has applied to the borough council for permission to move to the Cleveland Industrial Estate . |
| 8 | Shandruk later claimed in his memoirs , Arms of Valor ( 1959 ) , that he sent a personal appeal to Gen Anders , the Polish commander in Italy , for permission to march to the rear of British forces . |
| 9 | A property company may promise restoration of the house in return for permission to build in the grounds . |
| 10 | Here there was no need for closure to hover behind the death-rate , or for one mental hospital to be engorged for another to shut . |
| 11 | After more skirmishes , a compromise was reached which allowed for Liesl to stay with the Wynnes until her real mother was able to care for her . |
| 12 | The band left us after lunch to play on the esplanade of Stirling Castle . |
| 13 | He said that he much preferred the money they could afford for clothing to go onto the boys ' backs , and onto her . |
| 14 | Bob Wilson was so confident that the deal would go through that some weeks before it was even completed he had given authorisation for work to begin at the Boeing factory in Seattle to modify the aircraft to British CAA regulations and finish it in the red and grey Virgin livery . |
| 15 | The husband to have time off work to look after the children , |
| 16 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 17 | But there is a view , which is gaining political support , that suggests that the best way to guarantee a ‘ responsible and representative ’ media , especially with regard to broadcasting , is to remove all regulatory mechanisms altogether : for broadcasting to follow in the footsteps of the ‘ free ’ press . |
| 18 | At appropriate stocking rates there is a natural tendency for oxygen to move from the atmosphere where the concentration is high , to the water where it is low and conversely for carbon dioxide to move from water with a higher concentration to the atmosphere where it is lower . |
| 19 | After keeping and breeding Malawi Cichlids for the past fifteen years NANCY SHUTTLE felt it was time for winds of change to blow into the fish house . |
| 20 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 21 | Even the primary right of freedom to dispose of the property as the owner wishes is not absolute . |
| 22 | Reconciling the conflict between the demands of public accountability and the desirability of freedom to operate in the market has proved extremely difficult . |
| 23 | When you make a point of try to listen to the world , |
| 24 | Water can be lost through dissociation by solar uv radiation and the subsequent loss of hydrogen to space from the exosphere . |
| 25 | As it melted , the fuel 's chemical reaction with the surrounding water also caused a bubble of hydrogen to form at the top of the reactor vessel . |
| 26 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 27 | I have also offered to send a small number of officials from the Ministry of Defence to the Russian Ministry of Defence to advise on the restructuring and control and financing of armed forces in a democratic society . |
| 28 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 29 | I suppose it will be said that it is the height of romanticism to cling to the idea that universities can remain largely publicly funded and that students will not inevitably have to pay fees . |
| 30 | It is in the erm statement of faith to substitute for the phrase by his death on the cross the words he died on the cross for the sins of the world . |