Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have only to look south of the border at some of the experiences of their former workmates within public sector bus operations to see what the alternative propositions might be . |
| 2 | I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ? |
| 3 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 4 | 4 Setting baselines ( 10 minutes to establish what the parents are to do ) |
| 5 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 6 | Bann face Garvey at Blaris on Wednesday night ( 8pm ) and Holywood at Olympia next Saturday , needing two outright wins to secure them the honours . |
| 7 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 8 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 9 | Back in 1936 Frank Hawks asked the Granville Brothers to build him the ‘ fastest landplane ever ’ . |
| 10 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |
| 11 | In Luxor we hired a felucca with two crewmen to take us the 120 miles by river to Aswan . |
| 12 | The dustbag itself forms part of the filtration system , so if high filtration is important to you , be sure to look out for cleaners that have dust indicators to tell you the amount the bag contains . |
| 13 | The Act emphasises the crucial importance of support for those carers , and without strategies to empower them the Act can not work . |
| 14 | One energetic character asked if we minded waiting while he climbed another two hundred feet to see what the view over a nearby rise was like . |
| 15 | Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is . |
| 16 | What Labour Members say makes it sound as though they do not want parents to know what the schools that their children are attending are like . |
| 17 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 18 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 19 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 20 | These people now face annual medical inspection for the rest of their lives to assess what the radiation may have bequeathed to them in terms of a legacy of cancer or birth defects . |
| 21 | After much research , suppliers were able to produce viable alternatives to lead which the Society helped to promote , with informative booklets produced jointly with anglers ' organisations . |
| 22 | While the rest of the card world attempts to move on by using humour or Snoopy dogs to sell us the festive season , charity Christmas cards remain as old-fashioned , tedious and unimaginative as they have always been . |
| 23 | We might then be able to work back from lifestyle and abilities to predict what the brain of a particular species should be like ( Legg 1983 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I trust you 'll have no objections if I use whatever influence I have with the airlines to get you the first available seat ? ’ |
| 25 | There was widespread international sympathy for the mujaheddin as opponents of Soviet invasion : but this obscured the internal , civil war , origins of the conflict and led too few observers to ask what the programme of the tribal insurgents was , not least with regard to women . |
| 26 | David Dorn takes time off from watching the screen antics to bring you the details . |
| 27 | I 'd also like to thank his parents for what they have contributed over the years to make him the person he is , supporting him through college , and also for making me such a welcome member of their family . |
| 28 | separate reports of the views of each of the groups to give them the opportunity for further comment ; |
| 29 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 30 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |