Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , investors from outside the Community , from places such as Japan , the United States and many others , look at the European Community and decide that the United Kingdom is by far the best place in which to invest due to the stability , skills and reliability of our work force . |
| 2 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 3 | Our tips — the Damon Wayans vehicle ‘ Mo Money or Ice-T and Ice Cube trying to go mainstream in The Looters |
| 4 | In natural fibre-rich foods the taste-evoking substances appear to remain intact within the cell walls which have not been stripped away by refining processes . |
| 5 | It is possible to treat each of the pair , as a single consonant phoneme ( we will call this the one-phoneme analysis of , ) , and it is also possible to say that they are composed of two phonemes each — either plus or plus all of which are already established as independent phonemes of English ; this will be called the two-phoneme analysis of and . |
| 6 | In the past these synthesizing studies have been difficult to perform due to the lack of a technology which allows the storing , retrieval , analysis , manipulation and display of large volumes of data relating to areal units and their properties . |
| 7 | It is normal for blood pressure and pulse rates to fall due to the effect of anaesthetic drugs and gases on the cardiac and respiratory centres . |
| 8 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 9 | The workforce reduction and other actions will result in a one-time charge of $40m to be taken against the fourth quarter figures , but Cray expects to remain profitable for the year , and sees higher profitability as a result of the measures next year . |
| 10 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 11 | It is interesting to see that of the Brits farming in France most of us have wives teaching English as a way of earning extra income . |
| 12 | That 's , it 's horrible to see that in the family . |
| 13 | It is probable that there will be several different approaches in one class and the trainers will have to enable each of the students to take control of their own learning and develop skills in a way which is most effective for them . |
| 14 | Because we seem to like that at the moment do n't we ? |
| 15 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 16 | A member from the panel of parents of school age will be required to attend each of the meetings . |
| 17 | It is not so easy to produce figures for Britain as so much porn is consumed illegally , but the trend is sure to mirror that of the States . |
| 18 | Except that both the cleric and the man of science manage to fall asleep over the body . |
| 19 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 20 | One way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the present value of the investment and to compare that with the present cost . |
| 21 | They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East . |
| 22 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |
| 23 | I had no answer , and began to sink lower into the chair . |
| 24 | This is more prominent in the early stages of the diarrhoeal illness , and returns to near normal by the fourth day , by which time the faecal weights are coming down . |
| 25 | Norman Tebbit , his blood pressure returned to near normal after the frustrations of debate , was exercising his somewhat malign charm over a group of columnists . |
| 26 | Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act 1934 represented the first legislative attempt in the US to curb some of the dangers associated with insider trading . |
| 27 | Farmers , their pride stung , can easily become aggressively unhelpful to even the most politely worded and well-reasoned appeal to curb some of the unnecessarily destructive aspects of their farming practices . |
| 28 | The news even managed to overshadow some of the heartache he felt at knowing he had finally lost Anna . |
| 29 | The RTO therefore felt it ‘ necessary to re-examine some of the basic premises , [ and ] to explore further the underlying assumptions before formulating specific policy proposals ’ . |
| 30 | Yes , I would hope that er this is a mark time ; it gives us a time to re-examine some of the schemes to see whether they are as financially viable as they looked er when perhaps times were better , and we would be hoping very much that er the economy will pick up and with it , land sales . |