Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it .
2 There 's a wide range of services offered by the NHS to help you through every stage of your pregnancy , including regular antenatal classes , designed to keep you well and to prepare you and your partner for the birth and for looking after your child .
3 There 's a wide range of services offered by the NHS to help you through every stage of your pregnancy , including regular ante-natal classes , designed to keep you well and to prepare you and your partner for the birth and for looking after your child .
4 He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem .
5 They enlisted the help of a rebellious warlord from Vidin , in Ottoman-occupied Bulgaria , Osman Pazvant-oglu , and the governor was able to maintain his position only by arming the Serbs to defend themselves against the invaders .
6 We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience .
7 No wonder then , that in the statement read out by goalkeeper Gary Phillips , they beseeched the players ' union , the Football League and the FA to protect them from the man who has virtually become a tyrant .
8 Were , therefore , the deputies of the Cortes to limit themselves to the study of the ‘ means and methods of expelling the French army ’ , or was their sacred task to endow Spain with a constitution that would limit the despotism which had ended in French invasion ?
9 The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh .
10 He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict .
11 The establishment of DATEC was by no means universally welcomed in the art world , many artists and designers being strongly opposed to links with TEC ; the Association of Art Institutions , for example , urged the DES to recognize it as the appropriate organization to represent all aspects of art and design education .
12 The rumour generated a wave of protest , which caused the HDUR to dissociate itself from the initiative .
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