Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Deviance arises when stimulation and enjoyment are difficult to obtain except through the fetish . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even then , however , the upturn had served more as a harbinger of better things to come than as the means of eclipsing the recessionary weakness of the previous 11 months . |
| 6 | Second , the pound was not hopelessly overvalued within the ERM , so importers ' margins have less room to adjust than in the past . |
| 7 | They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps . |
| 8 | In addition to emigration out with the United Kingdom , many of the best products of their excellent education system have gone to the mainland for university studies , and then stayed on to work because of the dearth of suitable employment opportunities in the islands . |
| 9 | On no my father was fortunate you see because he 'd got to go to work because of the |
| 10 | It would be nice to write that despite these lapses of judgment , not to mention the occasional maladministration , investors and other stakeholders in business do not have to worry because of the safety superstructure which has been built since . |
| 11 | And centre staff say the local community is being forced to suffer because of the actions of a few ‘ hoodlums ’ . |
| 12 | But James Barrington , director of The League Against Cruel Sports said : ‘ We are disappointed on one level that our wildlife will still have to suffer because of the bigotry and ignorance of elected representatives . |
| 13 | Hammam said Jones was a Sheffield United player at the time the video was compiled and that Wimbledon were unjustly being made to suffer because of the suspended sentence . |
| 14 | While this approach might appear to be the treatment of choice for many adolescent self-poisoners , in practice , family therapy is often difficult to establish because of the reluctance of some family members to become involved . |
| 15 | Hot spots appear to be rather irregularly distributed over the Earth 's surface ( Fig. 4.4 ) but the real pattern is difficult to establish because of the problems of identifying specific hot spots and incomplete data in some regions . |
| 16 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 17 | However , John Merrill has qualified this assessment by pointing out that Rhee himself encouraged many independents to stand because of the weakness of his own political organisation ; while a reverse for Rhee , his position after the election was rather stronger than it appeared to be . |
| 18 | Among printers ' mementoes , one should not forget the special examples , in the nature of things not easy to find because of the infrequency of the occasions , produced by presses set up on frozen rivers , such as the Thames and Severn . |
| 19 | If a country was facing a payments deficit , then short-term capital outflows would tend to increase because of the potential capital gains accruing to holders if that country devalued its currency . |
| 20 | ‘ It is also difficult at the moment to know whether in the heat of a race the horse actually feels the whip or merely reacts to the noise made by it . |
| 21 | Take care to establish whether within the terms of such a contract you are considered part of the rostered qualified workforce , or whether you are to be treated as supernumerary . |
| 22 | He recommended excursions into the surrounding countryside , and for his class of people he could think of nowhere better to go than to the grounds of the ancestral mansion of Studley park , some ten miles from the town . |
| 23 | In the case of carers who have their own children this is easier to see than for the classic ( and disappearing ) case of the single daughter who was presumed to be childless ; although in that case the assumption in the past was that the single daughter would be rewarded in material terms through being the major beneficiary of her parents ' will , if they had money or property to bequeath . |
| 24 | He pulled on the goggles but still there was nothing to see except for the red embers of a dying fire emanating from some unknown source . |
| 25 | Auguste had persuaded his pupils that , having missed a lesson this morning owing to the inquest , this afternoon would prove an ideal time to instruct than on the magnificence of the St Pierre or John Dory . |
| 26 | Agreement on that process was more difficult to reach than on the technology , according to one of the six . |
| 27 | With discretion , employers determined not to employ Catholics can continue to discriminate because of the weaknesses in the Act . |
| 28 | I would open the door to them and check their names off in the appointment book , often unable to converse because of the language barrier . |
| 29 | At the strategic level of integrating the territories into the Israeli economy , the competitive edge of Israel 's highly developed and heavily subsidized productive capacity in industry and agriculture destroyed the Palestinian sector almost in its entirety — although there was not an enormous amount to destroy because of the Jordanian legacy of economic neglect . |
| 30 | The academic course is extremely difficult to characterise because of the multiplicity of higher education courses taken by future language teachers ; and it is becoming more so , as the predominance of the ‘ traditional ’ literature course is weakened . |