Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His purpose in doing so was to take advantage of the political uncertainty following the death of Richard de Burgh Earl of Ulster and win Irish support for an invasion of England . |
| 2 | Another way of making your money go further is to take advantage of the credit available with a Midland Access card . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry erm as far as the schools are concerned you had presumably a lot of contact I mean as part of the national curriculum is if if you like is to build contact with the community and the schools . |
| 4 | There is no logical reason why a person ought not to be allowed to represent another in order to protect that other 's individual interests , but in such a case the main function of representation would probably be to provide finance for the action rather than organizational efficiency ; and in most cases there is no reason why one person should not provide another with finance to enable that other to bring an action in his or her own name . |
| 5 | You may think this is a productivity issue but in fact erm our purpose here is to save stress on the individual . |
| 6 | The point of introducing these ideas here is to draw attention to the radical analysis which suggests that management may use rules and procedures , and other more complex organisational arrangements such as product groups or even matrix organisational structures , not just because they may be a more efficient means of co-ordination but because they are necessary if capital is to control recalcitrant labour . |
| 7 | All we can do here is to draw attention to the existing divorce , and to suggest measures that may lead to reunion . |
| 8 | Robbins 's purpose here is to define theatre as the quality of his narration as well as the subject-matter , and he does this by introducing three author-surrogates . |
| 9 | The problem here is to keep track of the point from which the subroutine is called , so that control can be returned to the correct place in the calling routine after the subroutine has been executed . |
| 10 | Alan 's trip to America 16 years ago was to receive treatment at the Institute of Human Potential in Philadelphia . |
| 11 | The first step in using Offline is to tell LIFESPAN about the kinds of media you will use . |
| 12 | The first step therefore was to grant representation to the colonies — though the word was avoided — in the Cortes . |