Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to make these positive , and if possible try to manage with the resources already available to you . |
| 2 | The question is whether these hallowed archaisms are only a surface phenomenon which a sensible modernization of Parliament would easily sweep away , or whether they indicate a fundamental unsuitability in the traditional kind of representative institution to cope with the problems of modern democratic government . |
| 3 | This is not new in child-centred teaching , but Way extends the notion of direct experience to exercise of the senses in the way other theatre people like Rose Bruford ( 1955 ) have recommended for children . |
| 4 | People that go to Comdex do n't rate Unix , the twice-yearly technology poll conducted by Byte magazine among attendees seems to suggest — and IBM Corp still has an uphill fight to win over the hearts and minds that are presently in the Microsoft Corp camp . |
| 5 | The Liverpool striker has rejected the offer of a new one-year contract to stay with the Reds . |
| 6 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 7 | We could see it as providing an insurance fund against loss caused by ( usually ) unintentional failure to keep within the bounds set by the principles of public law . |
| 8 | So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please . |
| 9 | It also emphasised the need for more and better instrumentation to assist the operators , to monitor the development of the accident , and to provide quick and reliable information to help in the actions taken in response to the emergency . |
| 10 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 11 | Most complicated and difficult to analyse were the religious motives , ranging from a direct yearning to follow in the footsteps of Christ to an opportunity to escape the pains of hell . |
| 12 | I still had to get the hay down from the top byre to take to the cattle in the bottom byre on my sledge . |
| 13 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 14 | Investment in canals had brought prosperity for many shareholders and there was similar enthusiasm to invest in the railways . |
| 15 | His only personal enthusiasm to feature in the records is a love of horses . |
| 16 | This was firmly rejected by the staff-side reps , who have maintained throughout the negotiations that the original agreement on LW should be adhered to , that it should be considered separately from the rest of the negotiations , and that LW needs to be a flat-rate , across-the-board payment to compensate for the costs incurred by working in London . |
| 17 | The zeal does not always survive the pedestrian management structures of local government , and perhaps it takes a more than ordinary enthusiasm to persist after the efforts of economizing councillors under pressure to do something about the rates . |
| 18 | Only three of these made any serious attempt to deal with the questions raised . |
| 19 | It was well-staged and well-sung ; and even if one had to put up with such seed pearls of wisdom as ‘ Beauty is in a lover 's eyes ’ , it was none the less a serious attempt to deal with the implications of the legend . |
| 20 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 21 | A month later Repton produced one of his famous Red Books , heavily laced with pastoral philosophy to appeal to the Upchers . |
| 22 | The effectiveness of courses was also heavily dependent on the degree of consistency and general agreement between the advisers , heads and coordinators who each had a role in the improvement of practice and who each brought their separate influence to bear on the teachers who attended the courses . |
| 23 | It 's an ominous warning which gives his players an extra incentive to impress against the Londoners tonight . |
| 24 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 25 | Does he agree that it would be an act of the most amazing folly to tamper with the provisions that currently apply , and yet that is exactly what the Opposition are committed to doing if they win the general election ? |
| 26 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 27 | It was a simple matter to strip off the layers of spoil from the stages in the construction . |
| 28 | It would be a simple matter to saw off the shafts of the clubs and embed the heads in a dummy top . |
| 29 | There was always the real ale to stave off the effects of ageing for a while . |
| 30 | The intention is to ensure that decisions are taken at national level whenever that is the most appropriate way to deal with the decisions . |