Example sentences of "[vb base] the [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environment Secretary Christopher Patten has claimed that this prevents the waste being dumped in less industrialised countries which lack the technology to deal with the material . |
| 2 | But that is not a view held by those who lack the imagination to enter into the hearts and minds of others , and to do to them as they would be done by ; among them the then Home Secretary and the then Lord Chief Justice . |
| 3 | Make the time to walk by the lovely nearby Avich Falls if you can . |
| 4 | I suggest the failure to deal with the problems posed by mass car use — because that is what transport problems , whether pollution , congestion , ‘ accidents ’ , or decline in the possibility of a real public transport system are due to — is both symbolic of , and central to , the bankruptcy of Labourist ideology . |
| 5 | The potential offered by data fusion techniques provide the opportunity to capitalise upon the sophistication and accuracy of lifestyle information combined with the volume access to target markets which geodemographics and the Electoral Register can afford . |
| 6 | Conservationists expect the government to rely on the existing network of 5,800 sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) , which are given only limited protection under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 7 | With all the results now known for the elections to the General Synod of the Church of England , supporters say they expect the Church to agree to the ordination of women in the next few years . |
| 8 | Eliminate the temptation to turn to the food cupboard for comfort by reducing to a minimum foods that can harm you : biscuits , cakes , crisps , pies , sweets , chocolate , pizzas and even bread . |
| 9 | Some want the requirement to apply to the engagement partner alone , while others — like Touche — want all the audit partners involved rotated . |
| 10 | I want the Minister to deal with the details of the Southampton case and of the Scottish company involved in that case . |
| 11 | You want the chance to spit in the eye of these landlords ? ’ |
| 12 | They want the department to pay for the management and care costs involved in running the homes . |
| 13 | Section 22 and s23 of the Arbitration Act 1950 preserve the right to apply to the court to set aside an award on the ground of misconduct by the arbitrator : misconduct sometimes amounts to what appear to be no more than minor procedural solecisms . |
| 14 | If there is no stated requirement for a quorum , persuade the Chairman to start at the advertised time even if only you and he are present . |
| 15 | First half losses at Groupe Bull cause the company to plead with the French government to take it over . |
| 16 | Best results are obtained with non-porous samples ; surface cavities cause the film to bulge into the void , causing blisters and a risk of tearing the completed peel . |
| 17 | Two oscillating mirrors cause the beam to scan across the nucleus some 60 times . |
| 18 | I welcome the opportunity to reply to the debate . |
| 19 | DRACULA — Wear the crucifix to get on the second coach . |
| 20 | Waggle the joystick to move over the flames and stop to be dropped . |
| 21 | Although history is deterministic there is still the need for workers to unite and act and accept the invitation to join in the great drama of history . |
| 22 | Lay the coat , zip or buttons up , on the floor or a chair and get the child to stand at the ‘ head ’ end . |
| 23 | In other words ‘ the Russian revolution will create conditions in which power can pass in to the hands of the workers … before the politicians of bourgeois liberalism get the chance to display to the full their talent for governing ’ . |
| 24 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 25 | Get the schoolmaster to stand in the puddle or a stream , preferably on a hot day when splashing could be associated with cooling off . |
| 26 | It also indicates the very real difficulties I 'm faced with this year , because unless I get the go-ahead to cancel before the end of May , we 're stuck again with having to pay whatever the publishers demand this year . |
| 27 | But I wan na know how they get the dog to walk on the ceiling . |
| 28 | Most people visit the town to ride on the Pichi Richi Railway a service operated through the Flinders Ranges by a veteran steam locomotive known as the " Coffee Pot " . |
| 29 | Resist the temptation to head for the gem — build left , hit the switch then return to the block marked 3 . |
| 30 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |