Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was reassured that the nonsense would stop , and that people would use the bikes merely to get to the base of mountains , where the walk in was prohibitive of completing the hill in a day without some means of transport . |
| 2 | I am satisfied that the promise was understood by all parties only to apply under the conditions prevailing at the time when it was made , namely , when the flats were only partially let , and that it did not extend any further than that . |
| 3 | With just over two months still to go before the opening of the fair , 517 of the 540 stands available have been sold , and the remaining 23 are expected to be taken up shortly . |
| 4 | He willed himself to sit quietly , allowing his eyes gradually to adjust to the night . |
| 5 | The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on . |
| 6 | Mr Byrne visited Amiens , which is twinned with Darlington , a few months ago to look into the possibility of setting up a link . |
| 7 | A starfish on the reef can crawl across a clam , fasten its tube feet on either side of its gape and slowly wrench the valves apart to feed on the flesh within . |
| 8 | Built by the North Eastern Railway No 2392 will probably be the first locomotive from the LNER constituent companies ever to run on the EX GWR line at Llangollen . |
| 9 | Archie Moore , one of the finest light-heavyweights ever to step into the ring , was 39 years old before he finally got ( and seized ) his chance to win the world title in 1952 . |
| 10 | More than 50 listeners jammed the Radio Cleveland switchboard for two and a half hours yesterday to complain about the company . |
| 11 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 12 | It 's a slow progression to unableness to perform their daily needs especially to start with the threat to the person , of opportunities to greater income . |
| 13 | These policies have , in many cases , been taken out by individuals on low incomes merely to provide for the cost of funeral expenses . |
| 14 | It also appears that dormant L3 in the muscles of both bitches and dogs can recommence migration months or years later to mature in the host 's intestine . |
| 15 | The greatest German composer of the seventeenth century , Heinrich Schutz , studied in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli , composed Italian madrigals there , and returned twenty years later to sit at the feet of Monteverdi . |
| 16 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 17 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 18 | The Home Office took more than six weeks even to respond to the points made , by which time the situation in my constituency had already exploded out of control . |
| 19 | The Conference was not just an affair , mounted at great trouble and expense , at which the Party 's footsoldiers were given four days simply to kick over the traces . |
| 20 | The following day brought several more guests and with two days yet to go to the start of the conference , Darlington Hall was filled with people of all nationalities , talking in rooms , or else standing around , apparently aimlessly , in the hall , in corridors and on landings , examining pictures or objects . |
| 21 | No , fortunately the other companies are stand alone companies erm making erm you know making their own way , and they do n't have to fear erm Richard coming and stripping them of their hard earned earnings to put into the airline erm because erm you know because fortunately we 've got resources elsewhere to look after the airline and see its development through . |
| 22 | One of the highest-ranking Mafia figures ever to testify for the authorities , Gravano claimed to having participated in 19 murders , and insisted that those committed during the last 10 years had been on the orders of Gotti . |
| 23 | They allow leading firms continuously to adjust to the collapse of the timescales for the diffusion of products around the world ; people all over the world are increasingly aware of what others are buying . |
| 24 | Retailers were confident that they could trust such customers implicitly to pay for the goods they took away or had delivered . |
| 25 | BT has developed a range of new software , including both packages that will help customers either to type in the data for the returns and tailored solutions to retrieve the data automatically from existing accounting systems . |
| 26 | And er got three suggestions really to add to the criteria that Professor Lock 's put forward . |
| 27 | Gooch will return with Richard Blakey dropping out , but DeFreitas , Michael Atherton and John Emburey are players yet to appear in the Test series who could all come under consideration . |
| 28 | And Singh ( 1977 ) , who has been an important protagonist in the debate over deindustrialization , defines it in terms of the economy 's ability to sell enough of its products abroad to pay for the nation 's import requirements , and to do these things while maintaining ‘ socially acceptable levels of output , employment and the exchange rate ’ ( p. 125 ) . |
| 29 | He returned to private practice with his brother and developed his notions sufficiently to present at the Manchester Technical College in 1887 a series of lectures on the completely new subject of chemical engineering . |
| 30 | In what must rank as one of the most petty letters ever to emerge from the SFA , an organisation that has never been known for its broad-mindedness , the secretary demanded that the ball be returned . |