Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
2 | The committee declined to accept the view put to them by the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury that tribunals ought to be regarded as part of the machinery of public administration for which the Government should retain a close and continuing responsibility . |
3 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
4 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
5 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
6 | Mmi Well I 'm happy , but I 'm never happy about playing Poland because it always brings back memories to me of the early seventies . |
7 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
8 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
9 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
10 | Indeed , says Gauntlett , ‘ Had someone suggested such a thing to me in the mid- '70s , I , too , would have been horrified . |
11 | I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l |
12 | This is the message conveyed to you by the Independent Islamic Wimbledon Day Boys ’ School ! ’ |
13 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
14 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
15 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
16 | She had never responded to his embarrassing invitation , made to her during the permissive sixties , to use ‘ Haverford ’ , his Christian name . |
17 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
18 | His words , in that elusively caressing accent , floated to her in the quiet little office . |
19 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
20 | Successive French governments maintained the alliance with Russia which had taken shape by 1894 , in spite of the hostility to it of the powerful socialist and radical parties and the great body of French opinion they represented . |
21 | It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course . |
22 | 14.2 No Party shall sub-contract any part of the work under the Project assigned to it without the prior written approval of all Parties . |
23 | The problem which arises from this is that we are never given any inkling of the totality of a king 's estates , and there is a particular difficulty in trying to construct a picture of crown land by listing all references to it from the whole Merovingian period ; if kings rewarded their followers by conferring estates on them , even though the grant might not be hereditary , the pool of land must have changed constantly . |
24 | Then , taking into account the resources of the authority , and the revenue available to it from the National Non-domestic Rate , the government is to decide how much Revenue Support Grant it will give , and how much revenue it considers should be raised by the authority itself through Community Charge . |
25 | The British decision confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since 1958 , that the EEC was central not just to European integration , but to Western Europe as a whole , and that after 1957 the history of West European cooperation would centre upon the EEC , upon both its activities and the response to it by the other European states . |
26 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
27 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
28 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
29 | He had recently moved out to a house in the suburbs , and he sublet the house to us for the remaining three months on his lease . |
30 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |