Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 2 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
| 3 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
| 4 | I would like to take this opportunity to inform you of the high standard achieved by your service engineer , Dick Churcher [ Healthcare Atherstone ] for his attitude and appearance whilst working at our depots . |
| 5 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 6 | But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime . |
| 7 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 8 | Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach . |
| 9 | The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans … |
| 10 | Er I 'd like to i ask our presenters this morning to join me on the stage to take any questions from the floor and ask if you could er fill in your er y y your sur your sheets on the on today 's events before you leave please . |
| 11 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 12 | So I want to , first of all , in presenting this report to remind you of the importance of that link and for us to encourage its development . |
| 13 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |
| 14 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 15 | The same information will help members of a project team to understand what is going on , and why , strengthening their contribution and going some way to prepare them for the project management role when it comes their way . |
| 16 | Yinka , a World Championship Finalist twelve months ago , overcame glandular fever earlier this year to make it to the Olympics . |
| 17 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 18 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 19 | Within 24 hours , NIH security police were given the list of names and told to call each person to tell them of the theft . |
| 20 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 21 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 22 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 23 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've got enough money to keep you for the rest of your life . |
| 25 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 26 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 27 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 28 | Any attempt to introduce them into the discourse is immediately blocked by the slogan posing as question — ‘ but is it philosophy ? ’ |
| 29 | If the jurisdiction were discretionary , no refusal to exercise it nor any failure to exercise it by the House of Lords would constitute a breach of Article 6 , but , again , if the appeal goes ahead , it must be by a process which the Convention recognises as fair . |
| 30 | If only he could get enough room to swing it against the Eye … |