Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
| 2 | Which in the sea was pretty futile really , I mean you just had to go where the sea took you . |
| 3 | My boss used to go where the mower had gone , but the fairways were narrow in 1965 and he found trouble when he missed them . |
| 4 | Earmarking , through reimbursement for the first year ; remaining 3 years to go where the need is greatest |
| 5 | Pound says , in effect : ‘ If your French is n't good enough to go where the quality is both defined ( metaphorically ) and exemplified , i.e. in Gautier 's ‘ L'art ’ specifically and in his Emaux et Camées as a whole , or in the work of followers like Hérédia and Samain , then remind yourself , or re-experience , what it is like to read George Herbert and Christina Rossetti and Lionel Johnson . |
| 6 | If security prices are anticipated to fall or the exchange rate to rise , people will demand to hold more ( domestic ) money balances . |
| 7 | And now the quarrel was under its own impetus , and once again a trial seemed to be in progress , with both of them as accusers , but both figuring also as investigators of the lowest description , wretched hirelings , turning over the stones to find where the filth lay buried . |
| 8 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 9 | To find where the blockage is ( unless it is simply the gully itself which is blocked ) , you will have to lift the inspection chamber manhole covers starting at the house and working outwards . |
| 10 | Discretion always exists even over such matters as the pace of work , the attitude to work or the willingness to perform tasks . |
| 11 | This may lead owners to worry that the dog 's diet is deficient in some respect , but if you are using a balanced prepared food , then there should be no concern about this . |
| 12 | Few stories about their activities went beyond the editing-down of a long speech — except , perhaps , to relate that the occasion was attended by ‘ leading party and Government officials ’ . |
| 13 | Alas , I was to reach the age of sixty and retire before even the first sod was turned , but I am happy to relate that the building is now complete and occupied by AIB . |
| 14 | With the view here towards Kirkby Bentinck , it is interesting to relate that the colour light signal was still glowing red just around the corner . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) 5.18(2) confers the right on an applicant , licence-holder , objector or complainer who appeared at the hearing to request that the board give their reasons for their decision in writing . |
| 16 | Where the purchaser has commissioned an accountants ' report , it is normal practice to request that the vendor warrants the accuracy of the report . |
| 17 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |
| 18 | If geology suggested that the earth 's climate had changed through time , it would make sense to accept that the Creator would design different species for each of the successive geological periods . |
| 19 | I 've had to accept that the kind of woman who attracts me is n't the kind to sit at home having babies and darning my socks . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's hard to believe such a vivacious personality is lost to us ’ , ’ Dysart was quoted as saying 'and harder still to accept that the stand I have taken against terrorism may have brought about her death . ’ ’ |
| 21 | The other plausible strategy is to admit an inconsistency but to accept that the law should not necessarily be consistent across the range of tragic choices . |
| 22 | Zuwaya were not prepared to accept that the law is embodied in a person or office , for then it acquires authority , a hierarchy of instances of control and review . |
| 23 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 24 | Just before his death Poulantzas did come to accept that the state could be a field of political struggle and that this ‘ institutional ensemble ’ was not unified but was subject to conflict and disunity . |
| 25 | He offered common sense advice such as that she should ‘ have a talk ’ with her son , but refused to accept that the money was a loan and take the necessary steps to recover it . |
| 26 | Unless we have good reasons for believing that this continuous supply of potential users has somehow become ‘ inoculated ’ against heroin use ( e.g. through effective drug education ) , then we have to accept that the concept of total ‘ saturation ’ may be implausible . |
| 27 | He also refuses to accept that the vicar 's status in society is on the wane , despite the Cluedo move . |
| 28 | The most frustrating aspect of the press reporting was the almost universal failure to accept that the objective was to force the government to act against the terrorists and criminals . |
| 29 | The £6 million Juventus player has finally been forced to accept that the cartilage damage which has troubled him for several weeks requires surgery . |
| 30 | However , some judges do seem prepared to accept that the public are now more aware of character merchandising and there may be a change in this aspect of passing-off before too long . |