Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly , however , Mn and Fe tend to co-precipitate in the lattice of carbonate minerals and varying degrees of quenching occur , reducing the intensity of Mn 2 + emission and inducing a brownish colouration according to the quenching . |
| 2 | Yesterday we won a vital victory in having Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell agree to look at the case . |
| 3 | If Ince sorts out the midfield with Palmer , I 'll be amazed if Shearer and Wright fail to get on the scoresheet . |
| 4 | He says what you can see is most of the cities not only in Holland , but the whole world and of course in England have to deal with the growing of cars and it 's not only that the car is a good thing — the car has very bad things for the city as a whole . |
| 5 | Why did this fellow Dickens want to live on the top of a hill ? |
| 6 | Senior research administrators from both sides of the Atlantic plan to meet before the end of the month to discuss the implications to Anglo-French trial results which last week cast doubt on the usefulness of the drug AZT in treating HIV . |
| 7 | Although these efforts failed to persuade the ANC to renew constitutional negotiations , both parties supported a UN plan to assist in the transition to democracy . |
| 8 | OUP expect to establish with the supplier the criteria which will be used to determine whether the system functions correctly and can be accepted by OUP . |
| 9 | Will an amicable agreement be reached , or will the villagers of Seamer decide to apply to the Home Secretary for their charter to be revoked ? |
| 10 | She smiled , ‘ Do n't forget now , you 're my cousin from Neath come to help with the business , you 're big like my dad , could easily be his nephew and so long as you do n't open your mouth , it should be all right . ’ |
| 11 | Partition made comparatively little difference to its position as a market town for Donegal , but inevitably the industrial goods of Derry have to get to the mainland . |
| 12 | ‘ SSDs have to think about the pace and level of training . |
| 13 | Like , uh , how does WNKER Toronto hope to deal with the switch in formatting from vinyl to CD without breaking the semester 's budget on new shelving ? |
| 14 | But Version 2 of CICS/2 enables an OS/2 machine to act as the server for the first time — running fully-fledged CICS applications . |
| 15 | It may be a valuable reference book on established practice , but what does the indefensible pedestrian accident rate in Britain have to say about the validity of that ? |
| 16 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |
| 17 | Once a quarter , the directors of commercial vehicle company Iveco have to sit across the table from the executive committee of the company 's parent , Fiat , and face a grilling on their latest results . |
| 18 | Colin was based at Linlithgow for 10 years — the first eight as Assistant Manager and the final two as Manager — and although originally from Edinburgh , he and his wife Joy and their two sons , Martin and Douglas plan to stay in the town . |
| 19 | Instead of letting structural details determine the interior style , Jon and Catherine Edgson prefer to start with the inside , so that it dictates the whole look of the house . |