Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We share that judgement and intend to continue with the passage of the Bill . ’ |
| 2 | A small white plastic bag containing various packets of waxed paper marked ‘ For Foodstuffs ’ lay propped against the gear-lever of the little Fiat . |
| 3 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 4 | If you are not aware that your eating habits change depending on the time of your menstrual cycle , it would be worth keeping diary for a few months to check . |
| 5 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 6 | The sleek half-fish-half-insect-looking machine with its low snout , long canopy , slim double-tapered fuselage , squat trailing-link undercarriage and 110-degree V-tail immediately recalled memories of the shiny blue mounts of la Patrouille — though the ends of its tanks remain un-dented by the games of ‘ tap-the-tip-tank ’ which those characters played on boring transits . |
| 7 | 53 ( 1 ) ( c ) [ A ] disposition of an equitable interest or trust subsisting at the time of the disposition , must be in writing signed by the person disposing of the same , or by his agent thereunto lawfully authorised in writing or by will . |
| 8 | My examples tend to come from the part of the world where I live , but the same principles apply wherever you happen to be . |
| 9 | However , animal experiments have shown that , if tobacco extracts are painted on rabbits ' ears , cancerous growths tend to appear on the skin of the ear . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats intend to concentrate on the prevention of crime by putting more policemen on the beat and setting up special committees to discuss law and order . |
| 11 | Does he not therefore find it extraordinary that the Labour and Liberal parties remain committed to the abolition of grant maintained schools and that in local government they are waging a relentless campaign against G M schools , as typified by the behaviour of Essex County Council . |
| 12 | Would he not join me in urging Sinn Fein to reconsider their position on this and would he also agree with me and confirm to this house that this government will never do what Mr Adams requests and that is become a persuader of the people of Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland and will he , will he recognise from me that many on these benches remain committed to the union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 13 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 14 | As is the case with most areas of text-linguistics , linguists tend to concentrate on the analysis of signalling devices in English and extrapolate from that to other languages . |
| 15 | This appears to be reflected in the character of the Anglo-Norman fabliaux , which — small though their number is and therefore a rather unreliable basis for generalizations — tend to concentrate upon the adventures of knightly characters , and to develop the characters they contain in terms which , however facile , represent the aristocratic or courtly ethos : characters are frequently identified as " " bel " " , " fine " , for instance , and given " noble " motives for their actions , such as the lady of Un Chevalier , sa dame et un clerc , who , superficially at least , gives herself to the clerk as an act of pity , in order to avoid his dying of his " " maladie " " of love . |
| 16 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 17 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 18 | If you want to go through the details of assignment and analysis , there are many excellent treatments that will help you , varying in depth from the brief but extremely clear account in Ref. [ 20 ] to long and complicated books on the subject , for example , Ref. [ 21 ] . |
| 19 | I want to go through the process of what we really have to do and consider to build up the story . |
| 20 | We propose to remain within the centre of the Community , framing the future of the Community in the interests of the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe . |
| 21 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |
| 22 | If we are outside , we shall not enjoy the advantages of a single currency or have the investment in this country of those companies — our own and overseas firms — which want to invest in the core of Europe and enjoy full access to all that goes on in Europe . |
| 23 | There are also more specialised information sources you might need to use : if you want to know about the readership of a particular contemporary magazine or newspaper , for example ( perhaps as part of a study of the relation between ideology and audience ) you could use BRAD ( " British Rate and Data " ) , which lists advertising rates and audited newspaper and magazine circulations . |
| 24 | If you just want to work on the length of pipe between the cistern and the taps , shut the gatevalve first ( if there is one ) opening the taps will drain the pipe . |
| 25 | I was just commenting er , you know , we just want to work in the County of Lincolnshire , I presume . |
| 26 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 27 | In this chapter I want to concentrate on the response of community educators , particularly their reaction to the problems and issues facing the working class . |
| 28 | Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need . |
| 29 | SWAP operated under the aegis of the Royal Society , giving it credibility in the eyes of the press and the collaborating Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . |
| 30 | If you want to talk about the work of an author , you need to judge how many texts to talk about and how varied your selection needs to be ( many authors write in different modes : novels , short stories , poems , diaries and letters , etc ) . |