Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 2 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 3 | Out of doors , if it is being chased by a rival cat , a dog , or some human enemy , it will try , as always , to scamper up a wall or a tree , using its non-existent claws to cling to the surfaces as it leaps upwards . |
| 4 | The harbour was crammed with the great prahus which we had come so far for , but our attempts to communicate with the captains and crewmen were discouraging . |
| 5 | It is unrealistic in these times to work on the assumption that profit sharing ratios , once fixed , are sacrosanct only ever to be changed when the number of partners changes . |
| 6 | They should include plans to communicate with the public and media . |
| 7 | But y you a are asking the inspectors to proceed on the basis that all land within the six-mile radius of the city centre serves a greenbelt function ? |
| 8 | Insisting that the Platform was not fighting against the party but rather for its " democratic renewal aimed at adapting it to a multiparty system " , Shostakovsky called on Platform supporters to remain inside the CPSU until after the congress ( a view endorsed on April 12 by leading radical Boris Yeltsin ) , and criticized a call made by fellow Democratic Platform leader Igor Chubais on April 11 for Platform supporters to resign their CPSU membership immediately . |
| 9 | A procession is formed as midnight approaches and the Guisers carry blazing half-barrels on their heads to hurl into the bonfire and light it , before first-footing round the parish . |
| 10 | However , traders want Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council , which are responsible for the scheme , to allow shoppers to drive into the street and park for short periods . |
| 11 | Having survived a financial crisis in the early 1980s , thanks to support from the banks and from a staff prepared to agree to a voluntary wage freeze , the paper is now making money and putting on readers , so why has the management now decided to modernise the title ? |
| 12 | The evaluators were convinced that the opportunities for schools to benefit from the expertise and efforts of the DCSLs were considerably enhanced by the project . |
| 13 | Then in 1960 Arthur Andersen came to Japan with the intention of setting up an office and wanting to hire young Japanese CPAs to train in the US before the office was opened . |
| 14 | That gives America opportunities to work with the Soviets that it did not have in the past . |
| 15 | The twenty-six signatories invited their fellow traders to come to the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand on Thursday 9 May . |
| 16 | They wanted opportunities to participate in the decisions that were going to affect their country 's future . |
| 17 | As autumn arrives , the birds migrate south , leaving the foxes to scavenge from the bird and reindeer carcasses and anything that might be washed up on the shore . |
| 18 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 19 | Since there was neither oxygen to fuel the processes of decay nor any scavenging animals to feed on the bodies and destroy them , the tiny carcasses remained complete as the settling mud particles slowly entombed them . |
| 20 | However , there are various defences available — for example , that the parent took reasonable steps to comply with the direction or that the direction was ‘ unreasonable ’ . |
| 21 | The accountant , and for that matter any other professional persons , have very important roles to play in the lease and for this purpose alone the tenant will wish to ensure that they are suitably qualified . |
| 22 | Modules under development at this stage will provide a wide range of opportunities to specialise in the Sciences and to develop further vocational competences . |
| 23 | This is a ploy by the Chaos Warrior , which uses its tentacled legs to straddle above the doorway and evade detection . |
| 24 | Yes , there are other buttons and settings to use on the machine or carriages , but these deal more with the needle selection of the design , rather than with the way the actual stitch is formed . |
| 25 | you can get little speakers to put on the side but they use loads of power they do . |
| 26 | The face begins to swell and the eyes to protrude with the cough and then comes oedema between the eyelids and the eyebrows , even to the extent of a little water bag forming . |
| 27 | As with any pattern knitting , you must use the claw weights at the edges of the knitting ; Silver and Knitmaster Chunky machines have wide claw weights to hang across the knitting as well . |
| 28 | He had sent the young sports-car-driver to ring for the police and ambulance at a phone-box a mile or so back . |
| 29 | Little seemed in Mrs Whitehouse 's eyes to change at the BBC and , in early 1964 , the Corporation 's Charter was renewed for a further twelve years without any of the additional ‘ safeguards ’ that Mrs Whitehouse would have liked to have seen written in . |
| 30 | She took herself off for long walks to ponder in the ice and wind and snow . |