Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time . |
| 2 | It seems that the guardian ad litem expressed some reservations about that decision to move the children in advance of the hearing , but by a letter of 24 January the father 's solicitors said that it seemed to them that the view of the guardian ad litem was ‘ quite wrong as a matter of law . ’ |
| 3 | It was very painstaking , eye-straining work , with all the extra plotting and without the alleviation of trotting outside each hour to scan the horizon and study the sky . |
| 4 | An important feature of this study was the use of the daily prices of call options on the outstanding contracts for each index to calculate the implicit market estimates of the subsequent price volatility for each of the outstanding contracts . |
| 5 | When the diagnosis of the illness is made , think around your clients and your relatives , because that opportunity to generate the financial security and the friends you need , is threatened by the guilt . |
| 6 | Also the subject of discussion and refinement during the first term are the number of offers to be made for each field to reach the target ( the offer ratio ) and the A level grades normally required for entry . |
| 7 | At the same time it converts the colour coding frequencies from PAL to NTSC and combines 50 lines of each field to reduce the scanning pattern from 312.5 lines to 262.5 lines . |
| 8 | Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test . |
| 9 | Aerial work pilots such as crop-sprayers , aerial photographers , power-line inspectors etc. have to give great concentration to their work and have little opportunity to scan the sky for aircraft approaching at high speed . |
| 10 | The Democrat-controlled House budget committee , therefore , had little opportunity to redraft the budget in a radical fashion , although overall its budget proposal did redirect some $13,0000 million of the spending embodied in the Bush plan . |
| 11 | Although we have little opportunity to meet the participants socially , there is very little sense of social barrier , and I wonder what all these western myths about the ‘ inscrutable Chinese ’ mean . |
| 12 | In our ( hopefully ) crystal-clear water , Koi have little opportunity to sift the silt . |
| 13 | At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules . |
| 14 | I would capture a fresh wasp that afternoon to use the following morning . |
| 15 | The situation in the Gouriet case was a politically sensitive one and this may well have justified the court 's refusal in that case to review the Attorney-General 's decision , but it is not clear that such refusal would be justified in every case . |
| 16 | All this is followed meticulously if at a respectful distance by Doolittle 's seven-piece band , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a strong sense of the orchestra 's role as a virtual extension of the voice , but with little willingness to let the musical idea take over the action . |
| 17 | They all seek declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that as a matter of law in the case of a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the Secretary of State is required to set a period for retribution and deterrence which does not exceed the tariff recommended by the judiciary ; ( b ) that the Secretary of State is required by law to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended , and the reasons for that recommendation , and also if he has departed from that recommendation to tell the prisoner his reason for doing so ; ( c ) that the prisoner is entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before the tariff is set , and for this purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State will make his decision which is not in his , the prisoner 's , possession . |
| 18 | 2 × 40 minute Video Cassettes , divided into a total of 8 episodes , with a review section at the end of each episode to reinforce the essential language points |
| 19 | He pulled at the starting device , a coil of plastic-covered wire that snapped obediently back into position after each attempt to engage the engine . |
| 20 | It 's easy to get set yourself and with heated curlers , tongs and styling products better than ever before , all you need is a little practice to create the perfect style . |
| 21 | From the independent design house of Munro & Tutty come the designs , with their primary colours , that attempt to recreate the effects of lazy hot summers , and an adjunct , ‘ Country Diary ’ wish to echo those long hot days and bountiful harvests . |
| 22 | ‘ They ( the reforms ) have been cobbled together too quickly and with too little attention paid to genuine consultation , too little attempt to build the necessary consensus . ’ |
| 23 | Remember when cutting the stock material that it must be turned over after each cut to obtain the correct angles on each segment . |
| 24 | He listed various possible causes — defective machines , careless workmanship , poor supervision , faulty lab tests — and asked the head of each department to identify the main cause of waste in their own area . |
| 25 | Yes the and there 's a place out Glen Bainey er at the march between Glen Shee and Glen Ayloch and there 's a a fence er a gate or a steps at just the Glen Shee folk waited at that side to meet the Glen Ayloch folk to take the coffin over the dyke . |
| 26 | And I think we 've got to remember that a local authority is not funded from money that grows on trees , it is funded by the electorate and we , as Councillors , have a duty to that electorate to spend the money wisely . |
| 27 | I wanted that card to complete the set , so ruefully handed over twelve of my duplicates . |
| 28 | To obtain the best possible tone and depth from such a small driver and cab , Trace 's engineers spent three months researching various designs of enclosure , eventually settling on a kind of reverse flare , with the inner front panel of the cabinet curving in on each side to channel the sound of the rear mounted speaker through a central , vertical slot , 11″ ( 28.5cm ) high x 1″ ( 3.5cm ) wide . |
| 29 | Greenhill ( 1981 ) , then a lecturer at the college , discussed this history of police/sociology antagonism in detail , arguing a tendency in each side to discredit the other ; resulting in a situation where ‘ the number of published British texts and research studies on the sociology of the police may be numbered on the fingers of both hands ’ . |
| 30 | No. 55 was chosen for trials and a top cover only covering the saloon was fitted and had six windows each side to match the lower saloon . |