Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When pupils do refer to dictionaries , take the opportunity to introduce them to various aspects of their use . |
| 2 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 3 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 4 | IBM is hoping that the popularity of workflow computing models will drive uptake , but it acknowledges that message queuing is not a new concept ; what is new it says , is the attempt to implement it across multiple manufacturer 's machines . |
| 5 | He had the impertinence to berate me for knee-jerk reactions on behalf of the Government when he opposes absolutely everything that the Government do , however sensible it obviously is . |
| 6 | Apart from injuries manager Jack Charlton insists he wo n't leave key players out of the side to safeguard them from possible suspension . |
| 7 | This may lead those who would otherwise oppose the practice to defend it on cultural grounds . |
| 8 | Indeed , political argument , policy-making and economic analysis were suffused with an increasing flow of statistical data which in range and scale was quite unlike anything which had been experienced before : to such a degree that by the end of the period under review the rate at which data were being generated exceeded , probably by a wide margin , the capacity to apply them in practical economic action . |
| 9 | Aspect 1 — the retention of propositional knowledge and the capacity to reproduce it in written form . |
| 10 | It is a virtual certainty that the developed world will have to set standards for itself , probably through commitments within the ECE or OECD framework , before attempting the infinitely difficult problem of persuading the South to join it in global agreements . |
| 11 | I told the spaceship to take us to New Earth , the planet of the Star Council . |
| 12 | Often the polyps withdraw , and the polypary may shrink slightly as the animal expels water from inside the body to replace it with fresh water . |
| 13 | If they wo n't , then it is good for the leader to discuss it in private with the individual . |
| 14 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |
| 15 | Or the experiences and social importance of women may be particularly misrepresented through the need to fit them into pre-defined male-oriented sociological categories . |
| 16 | Even in this case , some work needs doing to the back of the bevel to bring them to optimum usefulness . |
| 17 | The words of the Principal , , to the graduates of 1992 , and the fundamental reasoning behind the launch two years ago of the University 's Environmental Initiative to imbue staff and students with an awareness of environmental problems and the resolve to confront them through integrated teaching , research and institutional behaviour . |
| 18 | If you wish to purchase a chunk of salame to slice yourself in the future , you should ask for the casing to be left on the meat to keep it in prime condition . |
| 19 | You decide to leap over the convent wall and hightail it to England to a new life , and you have the wit to do it on early closing day . ’ |
| 20 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 21 | It was set up by the government to advise it on environmental policy . |
| 22 | The horseman was very particular about his harness and was as much concerned as the farmer to keep it in good order , making frequent visits to the saddler or harness-maker who had his shop in most of the larger villages . |
| 23 | A large puddle results and drivers swerve into the middle of the road to avoid it with consequent danger to oncoming vehicles and pedestrians . |
| 24 | The specifically indeterminate forms that inhabit the underside of misericords — birds with human heads , dragons with foliage tails — give way to bats , cats , men — on horseback or performing somersaults under the ledge to balance it on various parts of their anatomy . |
| 25 | Associated Fire Alarms Ltd , the Court of Appeal held that although there was an implied term in the employees ' contracts entitling the employer to move them within reasonable daily commuting distance of their homes in Liverpool , the site which the company wished them to go to — Barrow-in-Furness — was beyond this reasonable distance . |
| 26 | Cos I was out with my first daughter at quarter to eight in the morning to catch the bus to take her to adopted aunty |
| 27 | Following the demise of current cost accounting in the private sector and the apparent determination of the Treasury to retain it for nationalized industries , the fact that Byatt strongly endorsed its retention in the public sector is important , particularly from the policy-making perspective . |
| 28 | Fuel — oil , gas and electricity , and the ability to convert them into useable commodities like transport , heat , light and power generation . |
| 29 | Japan , which has no fossil fuel reserves of its own , wants to stockpile plutonium because it believes that it can develop the technology to transform it into plentiful and cheap electricity . |
| 30 | His sister invariably had the power to restore him to good humour . |