Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 2 | The maintenance of the right of silence in police station interviews — the Commission 's own research showed that this right is little used and has little effect on the decision of the police whether or not to prosecute or on the outcome of the proceedings . |
| 3 | Walking or cycling to work or to the station instead of using the car , and exercising the dog regularly ( breathing deeply and keeping a good posture as we walk ) , are ways of incorporating exercise into the normal schedule . |
| 4 | This can include walking to work or to the shops , jogging , skipping , swimming or dancing . |
| 5 | He must try to communicate that to the children who were filled with evident self-recrimination , Katherine particularly . |
| 6 | ‘ As Scotland is little known to the greater part of those who may read these observations , it is not superfluous to relate that under the name Aberdeen are comprised two towns standing about a mile distant from each other , but governed , I think , by the same magistrates . ’ |
| 7 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 8 | Deviance arises when stimulation and enjoyment are difficult to obtain except through the fetish . |
| 9 | While it is comparatively easy to accept that in the primary years children have particular and specific qualities and that effective learning is most likely to take place in an environment which meets their intellectual , physical , social and emotional needs , it is much more difficult to define the components which make the learning environment effective . |
| 10 | Outside legal doctrine itself there has been a greater willingness to accept that in the large public company the shareholders may not perform the task of monitoring and controlling the management of the company , so that the managers are potentially left in a position of unchecked power . |
| 11 | But more , were one to accept the date given in the traditional account , one would also have to accept that in the space of something less than three years Molla Husrev was appointed to and then abandoned the posts to which he was appointed at the death of Hizir Bey , went to Bursa , built a medrese and taught there , and returned to Istanbul to accept the office of Mufti . |
| 12 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 13 | In examining some of the questions posed , we have to accept that within the UK , and for that matter in most of the rest of the world , there is no such thing as a natural environment . |
| 14 | ‘ But we have to accept that within the Asian community there is a hidden immorality . ’ |
| 15 | For the Galileo story it is important to know that over the centuries Aristotle 's philosophy had become a part of Catholic orthodoxy . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman will want to know that during the past two years personal social services standard spending will have increased by nearly 33 per cent . |
| 17 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 18 | Having taken your bags of donated books from you at the church door last year , you may like to know that despite the awful rain this week , Christian Aid Sale funds stood at around £35K by noon today , so the total should be up on that figure . |
| 19 | you have to know that on the motorway an all |
| 20 | How are Americans to know that to the Vulgar British ‘ Bristols ’ are breasts ( boobs/knockers/charlies/tits ) and ‘ cobblers ’ are testicles ( balls/bollocks/knackers/goolies ) ? |
| 21 | For the purposes of the present work , it is sufficient to know that by the end of the seventh century a town inhabited mainly by people of Latin culture existed on the site , and that the surrounding countryside was peopled by Slavs . |
| 22 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
| 23 | Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them . |
| 24 | It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight . |
| 25 | They made it a rule never to pay , never to bribe , never to threaten to prosecute except in the case of dealers who could sell a young orang for several hundred pounds on the black market . |
| 26 | At any rate , it would be an exaggeration to speak of a collapse of militancy , or to infer that over the long term workers ' resistance can not be maintained . |
| 27 | Whilst not denying the symbolic role of leaders , radical elite theorists are more concerned to establish that behind the diversity of official power holders in every liberal democracy there is a defacto centralization of ‘ real ’ decision-making power in the hands of a core executive : the locus of the power elite . |
| 28 | It is easier for the lecturer to write than for the student to look at a distant blackboard and then back to his so-called " notes " , and so a phase difference develops between the blackboard and the class . |
| 29 | What I would say is that we endeavour to counteract that on the reasons that I 've stated , by virtue of the fact that we invite them to read the policy . |
| 30 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |