Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly there is a need to continue to emphasise the importance of change in an area where exhaustion of general practitioners is clear . |
| 2 | The difficulty factor here is knowing that the operation to perform using the calculator is division . |
| 3 | Charles Peace , a Victorian villain , once commented that the dangerous constable was the one who ‘ neglects his duty to go courting the servant , or nips up the entry to get a surreptitious drink . |
| 4 | The Treaty of Friendship , Co-operation and Security , which allowed the USA to continue using the Subic Bay naval base for 10 years in return for $203,000,000 in annual aid , was signed by Philippines Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus and the US ambassador , Frank Wisner . |
| 5 | The treaty would have allowed the USA to continue using the Subic Bay naval base for 10 years in return for US$203 million in annual aid [ see p. 38398 ] . |
| 6 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 7 | Therefore , you will be asked to continue using the wheelchair to move the patient around until the physiotherapist is sure that he has reached the point where he can walk correctly and safely . |
| 8 | It is convenient to continue using the shorthand of Continental and Maritime schools of thought , although the issues are more complex than they were in Queen Anne 's day . |
| 9 | They say they are willing to continue using the Skerne Park routes for a trial period while the speed humps are introduced . |
| 10 | These rights included not only an ability to continue using the property as before but also the right to rebuild or extend it , provided the original building was not exceeded by more than ten per cent . |
| 11 | It is quite common in an import or export sale for the seller to agree to arrange the carriage of the goods by ship to the buyer and also to arrange for their insurance en route . |
| 12 | The facts are all on the record , but the British government seems happy to continue financing the Wrexham factory to produce millions of video-cassettes a year without an apparent legitimate market . |
| 13 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 14 | Many grown-up people feel obliged by such considerations to continue to acknowledge the authority of their parents over them . |
| 15 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 16 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
| 17 | Then they let me get dressed , gave me a pair of slippers , because we were n't allowed to wear shoes , and said I had to wait to see the Governess . |
| 18 | The church was full of the women and girls who had attended the morning service and had decided to wait to see the wedding . |
| 19 | We need to continue to promote the health and well-being of our community but the introduction of a millionaire 's card scheme will not work . |
| 20 | If there is insufficient time to go to court the police may be asked to exercise their powers of protection under s46 of the Act to prevent a child 's removal ( see Chapter 13 , 1 ) . |
| 21 | I made the decision to abort using the apparatus and revert to an alternative er means . |
| 22 | In order to continue to monitor the developments in the English vocabulary from day to day and from year to year , it is essential for the Dictionary Department to continue to collect such quotations . |
| 23 | There are two points here : the first is that no matter how substantial is one 's background in user education , advice can become steadily less relevant with the passage of time unless a determined effort is made to keep contact with the users to be instructed ; ie to continue to instruct the user personally . |
| 24 | Adrian was sent home from school after a school outing to the zoo with a note for his father asking poor old dad to go to see the Headmaster immediately . |
| 25 | Oh she rang me did , ah well , you see , Joan rang last night to say that Reg had asked us to go to see the daffodils . |
| 26 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 27 | From his point of view he had asked to go to see the gorillas and he had been told ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 28 | He tried to go to see the family , but the palace was surrounded by Bolshevik guards and Russian soldiers . |
| 29 | Agreeing the case was arguable , the judge told Mr Pannick he would rely on him very carefully to consider whatever documents came from the Government , not represented in court yesterday , when considering whether to continue pursuing the challenge . |
| 30 | Such bodies have a very large , almost captive , clientele since many of those buying houses will go first to the bank or building society to arrange to borrow the money to buy the house . |