Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bishop Empey argued to the synod : ‘ Somehow we have to nail the lie that permissiveness flows from the Church of Ireland and that morality is the sole possession of but one Church in this land ’ ( Irish Times , 22 May 1986 ) . |
| 2 | I would also like to nail the lie that the Conservatives do n't care about nursery education as put forward by Chris as Mrs already said this morning , Hertfordshire County Council has one of the best records of nursery education in the whole of the country , something like seventy five per cent of the client group currently have part time nursery places . |
| 3 | This only seemed to exasperate the situation and it was some time before order was restored . |
| 4 | In default of explanation Mr. Cunningham 's award was so far below what , by analogy with the award of an industrial tribunal , he was entitled to expect as in my judgment to compel the inference that the assessment was irrational , if not perverse . |
| 5 | Where the former used the full vocabulary of informality , and seemed unprepared or unable to accommodate the possibility that alternative viewpoints might exist , the latter were more aware of the limitations of progressivism , both as an idea and as a basis for practice . |
| 6 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 7 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 8 | Museum and culture ministry officials at first refused to explain , then claimed the sudden change was made to accommodate the King and Queen 's agenda . |
| 9 | Unmould for serving on to a heated plate large enough to accommodate the pudding and the sauce that will seep from it . |
| 10 | Clearly , theories of this sort must be extended in some way if they are to accommodate the fact that latent inhibition depends in part on what the target stimulus predicts . |
| 11 | But once the size of companies expanded further it was very easy to accommodate the fact that whilst directors remained responsible for the formulation of the overall policy of the company the ordinary management was entrusted to executives . |
| 12 | The procedure was quite simple : the inhabitants of any given building were informed of its imminent demise , sometimes by officials , sometimes by the arrival of earth-moving equipment which dug holes next to the cottages large enough to accommodate the rubble after the individual cottages had been bulldozed into them . |
| 13 | The temple was built to house the deity , but the cella of a Roman temple was much larger than in Greek examples in order to accommodate the sculpture and treasures brought from Greece . |
| 14 | The low RF interference and low component count claims are usually made because the Cuk topology is not only able to accommodate the input and output filter chokes on the same magnetic core as the transformer , but it can also reduce the input and output ripple currents to very low levels . |
| 15 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
| 16 | The top reporters may not be able to spare the time and you could end up with the story being written by someone rather less familiar with the subject , whereas a quick telephone call or fax could mean that the story gets to the person you want . |
| 17 | She left him lying there and went down to say good night , treading on the paint at the side of the stairs to spare the carpet as Mr Evans had told her to do . |
| 18 | Anyway , Napier-Bell flew out to Dublin to court the band and immediately launched a speech enthusing wildly about how much he liked ‘ both ’ the Inspirals albums . |
| 19 | He was taking up an ‘ exceptionally demanding ’ post ‘ determined to uphold the law and serve the brave and law-abiding people of Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 20 | It 's my duty to uphold the law and preserve life . |
| 21 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 22 | I do not think this reversal did much to uphold the seriousness or credibility of the sporting authorities ; it did , however , solve certain in-house problems and — until Monza — lower the temperature in the great debate about Ferrari ‘ influence ’ . |
| 23 | More extreme Tories continued to attack the theory of co-ordination ( maintaining that the monarch was not one of the three estates , which instead comprised the Lords Spiritual , Lords Temporal and the Commons ) and to uphold the view that " our Kings and Queens are above the Law " . |
| 24 | Yet his ambition gets the better of him in Act 1 Scene 5 where Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland and he realises he has to stop Malcolm and also decides to kill the king and not leave the kingship to fate . |
| 25 | Several of the Covenanters , including some of the officers , told Morton that the order of the day had been ‘ No quarter — No prisoners ’ and threatened to kill the prisoner but the powerful blacksmith declared that having spared the man 's life he would defend it with his own . |
| 26 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 27 | On Nov. 4 hearings began in a federal appeals court in Honolulu on the constitutionality of a Guam territorial law of 1990 , permitting abortion only when a pregnancy threatened to kill the woman or " gravely impair " her health . |
| 28 | This was the third serious attempt to kill the Emperor and , as in the other two , the perpetrators were Italians . |
| 29 | Is it not likely that , were Mr Miller 's suggestions enacted , a man who has committed any of those crimes would have an incentive to kill the victim and any witnesses within reach ? |
| 30 | If you want to risk killing me , that 's fine , but you 're going to have to kill the conductor and the other passengers in this carriage , too . |