Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian 's concern for the reform of the criminal should never make him either deny the offence or fail to protect society against the offender . |
| 2 | Allow your filter media to become clogged or fail to pay attention to the use of correct media inside the filter and the worst case scenario of toxic water and dead fish can be the end result ! |
| 3 | In addition , many eukaryotic cells have whip-like flagellae or cilia at their surface , which may move the cell along , or serve to waft material past the cell surface . |
| 4 | For public health doctors to withdraw from or refuse to give support to the task at this critical moment would greatly endanger the specialty , as people without the necessary combination of medical and public health skills would attempt the job . |
| 5 | If no list has been registered , or the persons named have died , or ceased to reside in Great Britain , or refuse to accept service on the company 's behalf or for any reason can not be served , a document may be served on the company by leaving it at , or sending it by post to , any place of business established by the company in Great Britain . |
| 6 | Worse still , Moscow appeared willing to exploit to the full the unstable post-war conditions , probing western defences in Germany and the Middle East , blessing the Chinese revolution ( 1949 ) , supporting the invasion of South Korea by the communist North ( 1950 ) , and seeking through force , demagogy and sabotage to spread Communism across the undeveloped world . |
| 7 | This preference is shown up in growing governmental preference for the many variants of NFI , in which a local enterprise associates with a foreign partner ( or sometimes with two as in Brazil where Tintas Renas teamed up with both ICI and Dupont to produce paint for the local market ) . |
| 8 | If the Socialists are tactful and want to win favour with the centre-right , there will be no clean-out in June . |
| 9 | ‘ You said it was hardly in accord with your rank and honour to make use of the oath of fealty to lure a man treacherously to his death . |
| 10 | Thus a person who carries on a VAT exempt business ( such as a bookmaker , dentist , doctor , funeral director or registered nursing home ) might deliberately start a small-scale taxable business and hope to take advantage of the rules . |
| 11 | Additionally , they are working closely with local teachers to provide information packs , videos and talks for school children about the work underway , and hope to add construction to the curriculum of schools in the area . |
| 12 | We must look at the fear with our eyes and heart , and begin to bring calm to the storm of our emotions . |
| 13 | During this time , offerings are made to the gods and to ancestors in the hope that they will be pleased by such bounty and continue to send prosperity throughout the coming year . |
| 14 | There are , therefore , a few sub-contractors who may choose to work exclusively in this sector and continue to avoid detection by the Inland Revenue . |
| 15 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 16 | You do n't need to treat every dialogue in the same way anyway , so keep that kind of work for audio materials and try to use video for the work it is best suited for . |
| 17 | Pass any through the serpent 's coils , And try to lay claim to the spoils . |
| 18 | Quietly , choosing my time , I shall make my way to the Garden Tower and try to gain access to the upper chamber . ’ |
| 19 | Alternatively the parents may use the child as a pawn in their battles and try to gain allegiance from the child ( Minuchin 1974 ; , Barker 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Sometimes — now , for instance — I look down on Tod , on John , as a mother might ( mother night ) , and try to find hope in the innocence or neutrality of his sleep So now we wake up a new man . |
| 21 | In an atmosphere of such buoyancy the dealers are obliged to cut margins and try to survive competition from the opportunists for whom the fax boom is simply the latest in a long line of nice little short-term earners , such as double-glazing and car phones . |
| 22 | We will have to marshal our arguments now and attempt to get support from the French , Germans , Danes and the Dutch to produce a unified voice . ’ |
| 23 | Too many people spend too much time looking for a reason , and fail to take advantage of the simple pleasures that life offers . ’ |
| 24 | If , on the other hand , a child with a roughly similar basic disability is a cause for acute anxiety to the parents , who either make excessive demands or over-protect , and fail to make use of the available care and educational facilities , rapidly rejecting the child altogether as unrewarding and unmanageable , such a child might find low intelligence a severe handicap . |
| 25 | They intended to link their project with Documenta 9 in Kassel on the other side of Germany by requesting work from women worldwide to ‘ point out the problem of the infinitely small presence of women at this year 's Documenta , and help to shed light on the increasing number of well received approaches and concepts originated by women artists in a different way . ’ |
| 26 | Most flying schools are businesses and not charities and have to purchase finance in the normal way . |
| 27 | Even a career woman will have organized her life and work to take account of the children in a way men , at present , rarely have to do . |