Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope to get it right by the time the Olympics come round , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Some of these representatives by sheer ability and drive make themselves indispensable to the successful working of the machine ; others merely represent points of view which come into conflict with it . |
| 3 | But , why did the Dock Commission decide to make it compulsory for the men to be employed by them and not by the firm ? |
| 4 | But , to be fair to your potential customers , who could do this themselves , if they so desired , it seems to me that you have to treat the thing as a business from the word go , and try to bring something different to the market . |
| 5 | Or again : ‘ If you try to make yourself content with the happiness of the pig , your suppressed potentialities will make you miserable . |
| 6 | Yeah , sorry … to be honest I do regard you Irish as the same as me ( whatever that is ! ) . |
| 7 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 8 | It also expects it to build gradually over the next two quarters and then start doing something serious in the fall . |
| 9 | This chapter is about details but , as usual , the same principles still apply : have your overall picture and your ultimate objective in mind and aim to make it easy for the presenter to present and audience to receive . |
| 10 | Manufacturers of goods such as machine tools , computers , ships and other large or expensive items tend to move them direct to the buyer without involving middlemen or intermediaries . |
| 11 | ‘ No-one 's supposed to know what it means — most people think we 've done something odd with the word tartan . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've turned her loose in the hotel boutique , ’ Roman murmured , ‘ so she wo n't want either of us for some time . ’ |
| 13 | I 've got one free in the afternoon so |
| 14 | Cos if you 've got anything heavy in the bag , the bike falls over . |
| 15 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 16 | Friendships have been sundered , mothers have heckled one other in the street and schoolfriends have been separated in the row which has involved the withdrawal of scores of children from the Lady Jane Grey School in Groby , a commuter village near Leicester . |
| 17 | After a while he said slowly , ‘ I see that you too have noticed something strange about the picture . |
| 18 | Once you have made yourself familiar with the basic sewing processes , you will then be able to cope with any of the projects in this book . |
| 19 | Both Michael Lynagh and David Campese have made themselves available for the tournament . |
| 20 | The anti-smoking campaigns in the media in the last few years have made everyone aware of the risks we run if we continue to smoke . |
| 21 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 22 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 23 | The Scots and the Welsh and the Irish have clearly retained very strong national cultural characteristics , which have made it necessary for the student who wants to make accurate distinctions to say ‘ British does mean something , and it 's something to do with the Briton overseas ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ As for the County Council 's wish for the WHR freehold , we believe the course suggested by the High Court for the Ffestiniog Trust to seek the Amending Order is the best safeguard for the future of the WHR , and we have made it clear to the Council that we would respect their wishes concerning footpaths , cycle tracks and so on . ’ |
| 25 | I have made it clear to the right hon. Gentleman and to the House that we believe that the Union between the United Kingdom and Scotland is important . |
| 26 | I have made it clear to the people who work there and to the management that I am against the encouragement of tobacco addiction and in favour of measures which will prevent the use of tobacco in public places . |
| 27 | I have made it clear to the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , the hon. Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) , that in general terms I have every sympathy with the people in the Housing Executive and the Department of Health 's occupational therapy department whom , in effect , I shall be criticising . |
| 28 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 29 | We have to help them live in the world without causing harm to others . |
| 30 | School officials in Pasadena , Texas have detected something satanic in the peace symbol : they see it as an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity . |