Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surrey , for example , was described as ‘ not sufficiently generous ’ when it raised the income scale to allow for the rise in wages to match the cost of living . |
| 2 | We put on the billy and head for a coffee and warm , pausing at the tent entrance to brush off the snow that is heaped on our jackets and hoods . |
| 3 | Insufficient funding and poor management is blamed for low staff morale , encouraging many of those employed in the park service to co-operate with the poachers . |
| 4 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 5 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 6 | This will cause the LM curve to shift to the right , as shown in Fig. 6 . |
| 7 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 8 | In Canada , for example , the Auditor General Act of 1977 requires the Auditor General to report to the House of Commons when : ‘ money has been expended without due regard to economy or efficiency , or satisfactory procedures have not been established to measure and report the effectiveness of programs , where such procedures could appropriately and reasonably be implemented ’ . |
| 9 | The author embodies his sense of this in the cumulative use of the verb leap to point towards the poise achieved above the abyss of self-destruction . |
| 10 | Besides denying Dr Darsee government research funds for 10 years , the panel also recommended that Dr Darsee be excluded from serving on any NIH advisory committee for the same period and called for the heart institute to collect from the hospital the estimated cost of the aborted research put at $122 371 . |
| 11 | He lay on the narrow bed and waited for the basement gate to bang in the windswept night , until he remembered it was no longer there . |
| 12 | Commentators considered that the delay was designed to give the LTTE time to negotiate with the Moslem and Sinhalese communities in the Eastern Province in order to prevent them from joining to vote for the reinstatement of a separate Eastern Provincial Council . |
| 13 | The Zambia-based United Front for Multi-Party Democracy declared on April 21 that it was ready to participate in elections and called on the President to delay the election date to allow for the registration of opposition parties . |
| 14 | The Cabinet appointed 40 new parliamentary deputies on June 7 under an amendment of the election law to comply with the provisions of the 1989 Taif Accord [ see p.38214 ] . |
| 15 | Historically the Blackburn Perth has the distinction of being the largest flying-boat of the biplane era to serve with the RAF . |
| 16 | Vic makes a pot of strong tea , puts two slices of white bread in the toaster , and opens the louvres of the venetian blinds on the kitchen window to peer into the garden . |
| 17 | When Carrie had some feeling back in her cold limbs she began bustling around to cook them a meal while Seb sat using part of the kitchen table to work on the farm accounts in the pool of yellow light cast by the lamp . |
| 18 | AWI 's Movie Editor allows for a background to be scrolled automatically , at the rate you specify ( assuming you have the processor power to cope with the speed you have set ) . |
| 19 | The TAB key must be pressed after typing the user name to move to the password field . |
| 20 | Conversely , Halliday uses the term function to refer to the formal encoding of meaning within a grammar ( see , for example , Halliday 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Tambrands , the makers of Tampax , have launched the talk line to coincide with the new school term which , they claim , is an appropriate time to raise the sticky subject of growing up . |
| 22 | If you 're snobbish about the vocals then you 're probably the type of person that caused the instrument mix to appear on the B-side . |
| 23 | Above : The many physical similarities between pigs and humans means that people can use the pig body to learn about the human body in ways that , to say the least , would be unethical with the human body itself . |
| 24 | ‘ Suddenly we realised it was eight o'clock and we rushed to the sitting room to put on the TV . |
| 25 | This is why Mrs Dole got the Labour Department to look at the personnel records of nine big companies around the country . |
| 26 | Ann Marie moved from the Holgate End to propose before the 19,000 crowd . |
| 27 | Some advice workers will carry the relevant volume back to the interview room to read with the client , as they are encouraged to do . |
| 28 | This is good for voice-overs or to push down the level of the rhythm guitar to allow for the lead guitar to come over . |
| 29 | Causal path models are excellent devices for forcing the data analyst to look at the appropriate marginal relationships in tables . |
| 30 | And it could be argued that had he fought during that time , he might have honed the ring sharpness to capitalise on the moment he rocked Tyson in the opening round . |