Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had no need to worry about what the National Consumer Council called ‘ manageable commitment ’ , in which the customer operated a system of precisely monitored deferred payment , only ‘ overcommitment ’ and ‘ unmanageable commitment ’ . |
| 32 | My mother soon began to drum into me the notion that I was different because of my eyesight , and therefore that I should not expect too much out of life . |
| 33 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 34 | He knew he would be able to work with her the way he like to , not a barnstorming nonstop battle which was the way he had to work with Gesner , but an exciting exploration of just what new heights could be achieved . |
| 35 | As they approach the valley overlooked by the Mountain of God , he asks her to accept from him the gift of a necklace . |
| 36 | He is indeed given us to actualise in us the character of Christ : but that process will not be complete until we see him as he is , either at death or the Parousia . |
| 37 | In arguing this he not only collapses the specificity of consumption but also misrepresents the relationship between the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ social ’ in Marx 's argument , for it is not for the individual consumer to recognize himself in another individual 's product anyway , but to recognize the socially-imprinted character and meaning of the product … and so to find in it the satisfaction of ‘ need ’ ( ibid : 30 ) . |
| 38 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 39 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 40 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |
| 41 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 42 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 43 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 44 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 45 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 46 | Our natural tendency to concentrate on what the program does and what appears on the screen can easily leave the class in the role of passive spectators , with exercises added almost as an afterthought . |
| 47 | Both the questionnaires and the structured interviews tend to concentrate on what the customer likes and dislikes , rather than why . |
| 48 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 49 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 50 | And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say . |
| 51 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 52 | These people might indeed be said to have had a right to move once again centre stage , and so it is hardly surprising to find among them the great names of the first Napoleonic age . |
| 53 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |
| 54 | Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all . |
| 55 | Be determined to define for yourself the exact meaning of words ( like " diplomacy " ) , especially when they are abstract ( like " influence " ) . |
| 56 | My plan is to consider inter-relations between welfare improvement and the safeguarding of the environment , but first I want to talk about what the term ‘ welfare ’ means , and how we can use it in a scientific way . |
| 57 | The more he required her to talk about herself the more he longed for her to ask him about himself . |
| 58 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 59 | Lucy Honeychurch 's generation are trying to assert their right to choose for themselves the path of their lives . |
| 60 | ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’ |