Example sentences of "to raise [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE long been impressed by the number of careless references in the Scriptures to the faithful blithely taking it upon themselves to raise houses to the Lord . |
| 2 | Pecham was equally ready in 1290 to raise taxes for a king who had followed up his crusader 's vow with the expulsion of the Jews . |
| 3 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 4 | The agreement was described by the Financial Times of May 16 as " designed to remove any need to raise taxes during the politically sensitive phase of completing reunification " . |
| 5 | One was the ‘ ship money ’ controversy , which was the question of whether or not the King had the authority to raise taxes without the permission of parliament . |
| 6 | I made no protest for the simplest of all reasons — that I shared the Chancellor 's judgment that it was necessary to raise taxes in the Budget . ’ |
| 7 | Up in Doncaster my mum and dad had set up a stall in the car-park of the local Asda in an effort to raise signatures for a rolling petition . |
| 8 | What raises Eliot above the entrapping circles of city and savage is what for him has continually to raise words towards the Word , something made available in partial revelations . |
| 9 | In the first study , carried out by the Institute of Manpower Studies and the RNC , researchers have concluded that the experience of PRP for nurses in the USA has produced ‘ sufficient evidence to raise doubts about the efficiency of monetary incentives in raising employee performance in the public sector ’ . |
| 10 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 11 | It was merely a passage ( sufficiently relevant to be acceptable to the judge as a subject of cross-examination ) that could be used to raise doubts in the minds of those in Court as to your ability to pronounce on the matter under trial . |
| 12 | Generally , toys made and given to raise funds at a local fête or bazaar would not be considered as being a ‘ business ’ , unless , like Mrs Rees of Moor Farm , Walwyns Castle , you live in the vicinity of Haverfordwest , Pembrokeshire . |
| 13 | A company seeking to raise funds through a bond issue , for example , will pay a coupon rate ( a rate stated on the bond ) that corresponds to the current market rate . |
| 14 | The funding was organised by Brigitte Schafer from Frauenkulturhaus in Frankfurt who managed to raise funds through the Green Party in Germany in order to pay all the European representatives to attend . |
| 15 | ‘ I will be thinking of you all and wishing you continued good fortune with your worthwhile venture , ’ said Sharron , who was the star of a promotional video used to raise funds towards the pool reopening . |
| 16 | Prokofiev , in the final piece of the evening , showed what to do with that kind of thing : his Overture on Hebrew themes , written in 1919 for a group pretending to raise funds for a conservatory in Jerusalem but in fact trying to feed themselves , just sets the tunes in a concise sonata form , and preserves all their humour and charm with hardly a suspicion of the composer intruding . |
| 17 | A TOP amateur guitar ensemble , The Mozart Guitar Players , would like to raise funds for a Farnham based charity . |
| 18 | Spence , 57 , of South Shields , Tyneside , contacted a hospital saying she wanted to raise funds for a children 's unit . |
| 19 | Start typing a letter for Head of Primary who is trying to sell some raffle tickets to raise funds for a new mini-bus . |
| 20 | Also , as you all know , the festive season is fast approaching and in Glasgow the Committee will be helping to sell raffle tickets to raise funds for a good cause , every year we hold a raffle on the day of the Christmas lunch and we are hoping that this year we will raise a substantial amount . |
| 21 | A COUPLE plan a sponsored walk to raise funds for a new counselling group for bereaved parents . |
| 22 | True to their school motto — ‘ I DISTRIBUTE CHEARFULLIE ’ — pupils take part in and organise a wide range of events to raise funds for a number of charities . |
| 23 | Teams from RAF Manston and Kent policemen pulled a Concorde along the runway at RAF Manston , to raise funds for the Vulcan Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund . |
| 24 | British Legion was able to raise funds for the erection of a Servicemen 's Memorial Club in Bourne Place , just off the Chiswick High Road , between Dukes Avenue and Duke Road . |
| 25 | The group will also be organising events to raise funds for the Irish Student Defence Fund which has been st up c/o USI . |
| 26 | THE stall to raise funds for the Petersfield open air pool , which pitched outside Lloyds Bank recently , made . |
| 27 | Albert was the name given to this tank built in 1918 on the frame of an old 1885 tramcar which toured the town to raise funds for the war effort . |
| 28 | To raise funds for the buildings , it was resolved that ‘ friends of the Institution should be requested to lend money on interest at three per cent per annum — the principal to be repaid as soon as funds of the College were found sufficient for that purpose ’ . |
| 29 | Alton Rotaract challenged the Rotary Club to a game of skittles to raise funds for the Barnardos Century Makers Appeal . |
| 30 | Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women 's section 's national birthday scheme , Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter 's tea party . |