Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 IBM veteran Horst Rose is responsible for transforming the former mid-range business into a GmbH .
2 Both LEEL , which put up £75,000 , and the region , are understood to hold deep reservations about maintaining the same level of support .
3 The main problem was the difficulty of reaching agreement about eliminating the many non-tariff barriers ( NTBs ) which hindered free movement .
4 There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory .
5 Matriline coalitions also utilize secondary food sources such as leaves and unripe fruits and the species have digestive mechanisms for detoxifying the latter .
6 ‘ I was after thinking the same meself , before you came . ’
7 After discussing the several authorities , Purchas L.J. , at p. 367 , cited from the judgment of Dillon L.J .
8 On March 7 , 1991 , a Nanterre tribunal fined Le Pen F10,000 for insulting the former Minister for Public Services Michel Durafour with an anti-Semitic remark [ see also p. 37683 ] , although on July 2 a Versailles court cleared Le Pen of " publicly insulting " Durafour [ see p. 38354 ] ; on March 18 a Versailles appeal court increased a nominal one franc fine imposed on Le Pen in May 1990 [ see p. 37468 ] to F100,000 for describing the holocaust as a " detail of history " .
9 We shall perhaps never know what sparked his enthusiasm for collecting , but is certainly to be thanked for saving the many carriages , vans and carts which would otherwise have been broken up or left to rot .
10 To calculate the probability of finding a real space-time with some certain property , such as looking the same at every point and in every direction , one adds up the waves associated with all the histories that have that property .
11 As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy .
12 In addition , Mary Wilson was also a keen campaigner for women 's brothels and contributed an essay to The Voluptarian Cabinet on this subject under the title Adultery on the Part of Married Women , and Fornication on the Part of Old maids and Widows defended by Mary Wilson , Spinster , with Plans for Promoting the same , Addressed to the Ladies of the Metropolis and its Environs .
13 Languages which have morphological resources for expressing a certain category such as number , tense , or gender , have to express these categories regularly ; those which do not have morphological resources for expressing the same categories do not have to express them except when they are felt to be relevant .
14 The lifelong speciality of handling the same tool becomes the lifelong speciality of serving the same machine … .
15 Dr Fleming said : ‘ We have a tradition of using the same route for all referrals , an all-stations route .
16 Many amateur players fall into the trap of using the same club when chipping .
17 However , the point or purpose of using the same fact will be different depending on the title or direction of the essay .
18 Add positive three , see this thing of using the same symbol for add and for positive is very confusing , very confusing , it 's as though , you know you 're speaking a different language where one word has about fifteen different meanings and you ca n't understand what they 're talking about most of the time .
19 At the same time , the new digital system — ISDN2 — offers the possibility of using the same lines for either telephone or computer communication .
20 In this case , the taxpayers should ensure that either they pay rent for each day of the use or that the property is not available for their use for extended periods when the parties have no intention of using the same .
21 No particular doctrine is intended and if my expressed conclusions attract adverse comment , or my suggestions are ridiculed , it is sufficient that discussion and consideration took place with the aim of helping the many unfortunate people of our country who are at present without hope .
22 There are many ways of seeing the same picture and what follows is offered as a useful framework rather than any kind of definitive blueprint .
23 Spenser , or the inheritors of his estate , are most at risk of catching the same savage disease .
24 Different financial incentives change the nature of the educational experience and are not merely alternative ways of financing the same service .
25 Yet the argument against Ashdown 's triumphalism has to stop short of encouraging the same fatal hubris among Labour politicians .
26 Whether this is a real practical difficulty depends on whether the desire to save face would not anyway have this effect of encouraging the same decision to be made again , even if there were no risk of a damages award .
27 Japanese plans to build an international airport on the Shiraho reef have been abandoned — in favour of building the same airport on the next reef along .
28 It 's like a recipe — you leave out this or that ingredient and it kind of tastes the same , but not exactly .
29 Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ?
30 Given Nuremberg 's deeply repressed recent history with its strong Nazi connections , it is perhaps also not surprising that her idea of transforming the former site of the Nuremberg rallies into a peace park should meet with opposition .
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