Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Push halved new potatoes , cut sides down , on to sticks and set on the hot surface . |
| 2 | Capital receipts would normally be credited to reserves and recorded in the balance sheet . |
| 3 | Marble galls are still to be found now , attached to twigs or fallen among the leaf-litter , each with a minute 1mm hole from which the tiny cynipid wasp has emerged . |
| 4 | One convert to Darwin 's theory , Henry Baker Tristram , who had applied the concept of natural selection to larks and chats in the Sahara desert , was actually deconverted as he witnessed the debate ! |
| 5 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 6 | The critic of the plays must pay attention to register , those variations in language as used in particular social contexts , but also to rises and falls in the emotional temperature within a scene . |
| 7 | The author ( 1976 ) has applied the method to the solution of the lamellar stack problem referred to earlier in the chapter above and to the problem of the distribution of stress in a highly anisotropic plate subject to end-loads and discussed in the following chapter ( Figure 5.1 . ) |
| 8 | There were even reports of material assistance being given to protesters by local officials , such as transport to demonstrations and financing for the protesters ' co-ordinating committees . |
| 9 | From its earliest beginnings , the central concepts and problems of political sociology — class , power and the state — referred to developments and struggles in the public world of politics , commerce and industry . |
| 10 | Denis could imagine Hardy telling the others in the unit about Hurley 's old man , such a reliable , dependable , loyal , Irish subject of King and country that he answered His Britannic Majesty 's call to arms and fought across the seas under the British Crown for the rights of small nations ! |
| 11 | De Montfort was killed , his body hacked to bits and fed to the royal dogs . |
| 12 | In September 1987 the committee of European Community central bank governors decided to change a number of rules relating to interventions and financing within the EMS and strengthen cooperation among the various central banks . |
| 13 | The smells grew worse , though still fortunately not totally identifiable ; they squeezed past donkeys moored to doorways and pushed through the flood of people . |
| 14 | They conform to the same technical rules as ports de bras and must appear to pass through the centre line of the arm from shoulder to finger-tips and move within the two circles drawn by the elbows and hands . |