Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation . |
| 2 | Commenting upon the teaching of reading the report takes teachers to task for effectively teaching the mechanics of reading but failing in the process to help children recognise that reading was ‘ something that people did for pleasure , . |
| 3 | Methods for effectively representing the word list in memory to provide fast look-up times in a reasonably sized structure will be discussed in chapter three . |
| 4 | First of all , take a pat on the back for successfully completing the first four weeks of the diet . |
| 5 | It was unfortunate that BRAC did not notice this fact before the start of the programme , however , BRAC deserves some credit for eventually noticing the mistake . |
| 6 | If you 're stuck for somewhere to take the kids on firework night and you want to know the one that 's nearest to you Action Line have got a great big long list you 've got piles have n't you ? |
| 7 | Looking round for somewhere to hide the wrecked toy she climbed on to a chair and put the doll on top of the nursery cupboard . |
| 8 | Communist influence in the ILP was growing and although the ILP leadership remained hostile to Communism , there seemed to be opportunities for greatly expanding the Communist Party at the expense of the older and larger party . |
| 9 | The fact that we already participate in certain ways in what are effectively rationing decisions does not constitute an argument for greatly increasing the scope and visibility of that role . |
| 10 | Scarborough , adequate flexibility of land supply , that 's a quote , it was referred to as a reason for greatly increasing the allocation above that which emerged from the er statistical work , paragraph seventy six of N Y seven and erm in Selby 's case erm , land potentially available is recognized to be an important consideration , paragraph seventy eight of N Y seven . |
| 11 | The area of most impact potential for KBS 's is in on-line ATE testing which has the potential for greatly reducing the overall number of testing steps , thus reducing testing time , and offering more refined fault isolation help to the user . |
| 12 | As shown in Figure 2.13 , these range from trivial ones such as merely copying the first operand to the more useful ones discussed above . |
| 13 | The iris diaphragm is responsible for constantly varying the aperture , the f stop . |
| 14 | On education , Mr Beith blamed the Government for constantly changing the rules and making teachers ' lives a misery . |
| 15 | It is likely that the report will provide added ammunition to environmentalists who have for long opposed the blanket afforestation of uplands . |
| 16 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |
| 17 | The multimedia hardware industry has for long recognised the vital importance of these tools . |
| 18 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 19 | These have for long met the needs of groups of people ( from the otherwise homeless poor family to the grant aided student ) for whom neither the public authorities nor the private market has been able to make adequate provision … |
| 20 | Abolitionists did not expect immediate conversion by slaveholders ; it was not necessary in so far as they were sure planters could not for long resist the economic imperatives . |
| 21 | For long hauls the rivers still remained more important than roads in NEP , despite the fact that many of them flow to the Arctic and are frozen for long periods . |
| 22 | The ice mantle has for long overlapped the edges of the continent , unable to grow bigger without breaking off . |
| 23 | There was something compulsive about constantly superimposing the conditions of 1940 on 1947 : a foreign menace ( then Germany , now the USSR ) ; an internal force playing the enemy 's game ( then Vichy , now the Communist Party ) ; a weak state blindly trusting all to its ally ( then the Third Republic deferring to Great Britain , now the Fourth Republic deferring to the United States ) ; a minority of clear-sighted patriots uniting to rescue the nation ( then Free France , now the RPF ) . |
| 24 | No amount of talk about only permitting the tightrope-walker to fall will persuade otherwise . |
| 25 | A case has to be made , therefore , for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers . |
| 26 | It is always worth gently riffling the pages of a gilt-edged book when the bookseller is not looking ; though the devious fellow has probably done it already . |
| 27 | After successfully completing the academic stage [ law degree , CPE or Diploma in Law ] and the Legal Practice Course you then have to undertake a two year training contract which will enable you to put into practice the knowledge and skills that you have learnt . |
| 28 | It had always been Jamie Reid 's belief that the Sex Pistols should be broken up after successfully scandalising the Jubilee . |
| 29 | Faye had said last night that she would be welcome at the informal gathering , but , ‘ I 'm planning to visit my family , ’ Belinda had explained truthfully , after politely declining the invitation . |
| 30 | At 7pm he telephoned his brother-in-law Paul Caddick , a police sergeant , and when he arrived , after eventually finding the key to the garage door under a mat , he discovered Paula 's body hanging from a rope which was wrapped four times around a beam . |