Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the many important proposition for future policy and action by CCW contained in this paper . |
| 2 | Company commitment and the willingness to remain with the same firm for long periods may therefore be underpinned by the prospect of heavy sacrifices that accompany the alternatives . |
| 3 | He considered the advantage to lie with the former . |
| 4 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 5 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 6 | The reluctance to invest in a few good demonstration videos may stem not only from the fact that there are indeed some very poor , amateurish productions around , but also , compared with most books , videos are still comparatively expensive . |
| 7 | The mother 's death is portrayed in a macabre scene where Walter is unsure whether she has died , or even what death is , and allows the corpse to rot for a few days while he sits by her side . |
| 8 | This work went ahead , although rather slowly , and allowed the tunnelling to begin at the same time . |
| 9 | This , of course , causes the pendulum to swing in the same direction . |
| 10 | We will treat active and passive as truth-conditionally equivalent and used on the whole to refer to the same state of affairs ’ ( Weiner and Labov 1983 : 32 ) . |
| 11 | Expect the UK to succumb in the same way , then watch the band set their sights on America . |
| 12 | He is giving Gascoigne the platform to perform in the same way as France built a side around Michel Platini , and Argentina around Diego Maradona — the latter never more evident as when they won the World Cup in 1986 . |
| 13 | Leave the rabbit to set for a few moments . |
| 14 | But now they 're having a heated debate about script changes , so I grabbed the chance to escape for a few minutes . ’ |
| 15 | Because the pools are limited in number , and because rain has stimulated all toads in the area to breed at the same time , the breeding ponds become extremely crowded . |
| 16 | It should also help if you leave the paper to rest for a few minutes before stretching with gum strip . |
| 17 | Are the Government to continue with the same policy or enact a U-turn at the last moment ? |
| 18 | The celebration of this World Communications Day underlines the need for the Church to respond to the many unprecedented changes brought about by the communications media and their effects on modern living . |
| 19 | Even the innocent term ‘ support teacher ’ has the potential to lead into the same trap . |
| 20 | The real difficulty about this type of individual help is that it may provide immediate relief but not necessarily the understanding to cope with the same or similar situations in the future . |
| 21 | She did n't know how far they had come from Gloucester , but surely after an hour at a steady gallop they had put enough distance between themselves and the castle to halt for a few minutes . |
| 22 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 23 | In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone . |