Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lilies have to push their way through thyme covering the soil of their pots , so that there 's a green covering even when the eye-catching bulbs have finished flowering . |
| 2 | Baldwin 's declaration for Protection had the immediate effect of reuniting the two sections of the Liberal Party around the historic cause of Free Trade , and Asquith and Lloyd George came together at public meetings to exchange insincere pleasantries . |
| 3 | MILLIONAIRE Alan Sugar will be staying on as chairman following the defeat of his buy-out plan . |
| 4 | This was especially true when he gave an impromptu lecture on the nature of matter in 1844 — the story is that Charles Wheatstone panicked and fled , leaving it to Faraday as chairman to satisfy the audience — and another on ray-vibrations in 1846 . |
| 5 | Familiarisation of all health care workers with changes in policy and the background of research and development and aims of policy would eliminate some of the frustrations and create a more supportive environment for Health Care Workers who are involved in implementing new policies acknowledging the need for change to meet the new challenges . |
| 6 | The report called Help with Hostel Charges , Proposals for Change cited the PSI study and stated : ‘ Many hostels provided little or no care to their residents . |
| 7 | Acknowledgements : We thank the Fundaccon de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya for support to visit the University of Bilbao and the SERC for supporting some of this research . |
| 8 | The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race . |
| 9 | Section 6(3) ( a ) envisages a school where the number of applicants for admission exceeds the available places . |
| 10 | Our next plan is to go for endowment to stop the roller coaster ride we 've gone on with the city ’ . |
| 11 | With school attendance , for example , it was the working class mother who was visited by the school attendance officer if her child failed to attend school , whether through inability to pay the school fee charged prior to 1891 , indiscipline , or because the child 's services were needed at home . |
| 12 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 13 | Use of telephone lines of any kind for videoconferencing requires the multimedia equivalent of a modem , known as a codec ( compression-decompression unit ) . |
| 14 | Substances such as iproniazid inhibit the enzyme monoamine oxidase ( MAO ) , which breaks down the neurotransmitter noradrenaline . |
| 15 | The Royal Observatory of Edinburgh has applied for funding to develop the system for use with patients . |
| 16 | a sketch of a page for printing showing the position of text and illustrations and giving general instructions . |
| 17 | From this debate about assessment came the idea of videoing lessons . |
| 18 | It was noon by the time they reached Beaulieu , a smug little New Forest village at the head of the Beaulieu estuary , but Harry was too eager for progress to permit the halt for lunch that Mossop had enjoyed with Heather . |
| 19 | In the ideal conditions for wave riding the wind is blowing parallel to the shore but , as with jumping , you can get away with winds that blow slightly onshore . |
| 20 | He is the first investment analyst to be charged with insider dealing , and as a result his trial will be seen as something of a test case in the City , especially as legislation is currently going through Parliament to extend the scope of insider dealing . |
| 21 | His findings produced a lively press response , and questions in the House of Commons , and certainly contributed to the passage of a bill through Parliament to limit the availability of such films . |
| 22 | SCO has arranged for Chorus to do the bulk of the packaging and development work with SCO Open Desktop as the front end . |
| 23 | The hardline Russian Unity faction called for parliament to declare the president 's powers suspended with immediate effect . |
| 24 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 25 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 26 | It is for Parliament to warrant the expenditure estimated to be needed , i.e. to grant supply . |
| 27 | Here again , it seems to me that there is not only an opportunity but a necessity for Parliament to give the problem its urgent attention . |
| 28 | There would certainly be some , including many of considerable eminence , who would not find it easy to assent unquestioningly to the proposition that it was constitutional for Parliament to ignore the terms of union at will . |
| 29 | Lord Strathclyde , the minister responsible , said : ‘ It is for parliament to decide the powers , functions and responsibilities of local government . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In the last analysis , therefore , it is for Parliament to decide the extent to which legal services are to be provided at public expense to meet the needs of the majority of the population . |