Example sentences of "to gain [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of the microphone by some students this year undoubtedly helped those students who lacked confidence in their ability to project their voices , and it is suggested that more students should try using the sound system to gain experience for the future . |
| 2 | Students are encouraged to go on placement to gain experience of the world of work in the third term of their second year . |
| 3 | It may be prudent for a firm to gain experience in the market through agents and distributors before venturing directly into setting up a manufacturing subsidiary . |
| 4 | How , then , could the Liberals hope to gain advantage from the situation ? |
| 5 | At previous elections the Liberals had tended to gain support during the campaign : in 1987 this did not happen . |
| 6 | Several of the people involved in the ZETA story , directly or as spectators , are still working or living in retirement in and around Harwell : many of them feel that the publicity and interest generated in ZETA made many politicians and administrators aware of fusion , and helped to gain support for the funding of Culham Fusion Laboratory which was built during the early 1960s . |
| 7 | The Petition Committee , set up in February to gain support for the memorandum , appealed to the Labour , Liberal and Cooperative Parties , for the " parties of progress to work together " . |
| 8 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , the MRG and the Association of Democrats ( Association des démocrates — a heterogeneous grouping of leading centrist personalities from which the left sought to gain support at the time of the 1988 presidential elections ) announced the conclusion of an agreement aiming to develop " the second force within the presidential majority " . |
| 9 | The move was inspired by Ozawa as part of a deal to gain support in the Diet ( legislature ) for Japan 's US$9,000 million contribution to the allied war effort against Iraq [ see p. 30811 ] . |
| 10 | Dust , grit , and ‘ wee beasties ’ seem to be able to gain admission to the vestibule of the inhaler through the open top of the canister housing , even though the safety cap has been religiously applied . |
| 11 | Reminiscent of the peak days of Studio 54 , the Serpentine Gallery was mobbed by a large audience struggling to gain admission to the opening night of Robert Gober 's exhibition ( to 25 April ) . |
| 12 | He seemed to gain pleasure from the comradeship of Art teachers ; their banter and dry North country humour . |
| 13 | So-called biometric security devices such as finger scanners are considered safer ; they check finger prints to authenticate a person 's identity before it is possible to gain entry to the system ( Ernsberger , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | He attended schools in Bishop Auckland , Gainford , and Glasgow , after which his family connections helped him to gain entry to the music-hall , as a ‘ boy ’ comedian . |
| 15 | The thieves smashed down doors and broke open hardened-steel padlocks to gain entry to the Redoubt Fort , in Harwich , only to discover nothing of value inside . |
| 16 | where force is not used to gain entry to the Home ; |
| 17 | In some cases it may be difficult to gain entry to the channel unless the product is somehow differentiated by way of uniqueness or lower price than those products already established in the channel . |
| 18 | They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance . |
| 19 | It is as if the inner mind structure presents a predetermined pattern to the sense organ , through the brain and sensory/motor nervous system , and only that input which relates to the inward pattern is able to gain entry to the creature 's world of subjective experience . |
| 20 | From time to time the problem program will wish to gain entry to the supervisor in a controlled manner , for example to request that a transput operation be performed . |
| 21 | It gives a useful introduction to the subject and via the bibliography the reader will be able to gain entry into the specialist literature . |
| 22 | Well having er carried this appliance nine flights of stairs to the ninth floor of the flat erm my objective was to gain entry into the flat onsh , sorry once the okay was given erm , again the objective was to gain entry into the flat as quickly and as quietly as possible er , by my mistake the equipment was not placed one hundred percent correctly and began to malfunction. er It started to make er a bit of a whirring noise , and a bit of a loud noise and again the objective was to gain entry quickly and quietly . |
| 23 | Like the others he failed from the Centurion corner , so tried to gain entry from the right . |
| 24 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |
| 25 | Jim Maxwell , Contracts Manager Scotland , worked closely with Norscot Hotels , owners of the Gairloch Hotel , to gain approval of the colour schemes chosen by the design studio . |
| 26 | Alternatively the parents may use the child as a pawn in their battles and try to gain allegiance from the child ( Minuchin 1974 ; , Barker 1986 ) . |
| 27 | These complementary SERC-funded posts , each with an earmarked SUN Sparc-2 workstation , involve the development of theoretical models to gain insight into the structure and evolution of DNA . |
| 28 | To gain insight into the level at which expression of ATF1 is controlled during differentiation we performed RNA analysis by Northern blotting ( figure 5B ) . |
| 29 | To gain insight into the process of parents and staff working together it was decided to conduct some action research first in two nursery settings . |
| 30 | However , this process now needs to be spelled out a little more clearly if we are to gain insight into the effectiveness of the increase in money supply on the level of interest rates . |