Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 2 | In addition , Mary Wilson was also a keen campaigner for women 's brothels and contributed an essay to The Voluptarian Cabinet on this subject under the title Adultery on the Part of Married Women , and Fornication on the Part of Old maids and Widows defended by Mary Wilson , Spinster , with Plans for Promoting the same , Addressed to the Ladies of the Metropolis and its Environs . |
| 3 | It is one thing to win the support of electors by defeating an enemy for the first time ; it is quite another to expect admiration for slaying the same dragon twice . |
| 4 | After hundreds of training cycles , the computer arrives at its own rules for reaching the same diagnosis as its human mentor . |
| 5 | As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy . |
| 6 | ‘ There will be a few candidates for doing the same thing in this part of the world if he gets away with it , ’ one Welsh international said , ‘ and I for one will be very interested to see how it develops . |
| 7 | If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast . |
| 8 | The former is usually employed as the primary criterion for assessing the latter . |
| 9 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 10 | Alternative methods of achieving the same objective should be sought and the problem should not be allowed to rest until a satisfactory solution is found . |
| 11 | Since users ' ability to appropriate most of the benefits of innovations is likely to be particularly evident in industries where spillovers or positive pecuniary externalities inhibit independent R&D by suppliers , it follows that co-operative R&D ventures amongst suppliers and user-led innovation programmes may be alternative methods of reaching the same goal . |
| 12 | Participants in the rally , held by a coalition of opposition movements called the National Salvation Front , waved red Soviet and Czarist flags as speakers accused Yeltsin and his administration of destroying the former Soviet Union and Russia . |
| 13 | We have to use credit vouchers rather than gift vouchers , since the accountancy and administration of controlling the latter , would be cumbersome and impractical . |
| 14 | But most big stores admit they dare n't put prices up for fear of losing the few customers they have . |
| 15 | The second position was that ( as in the Welsh school cited above ) simply changing the name and use of buildings altered very little : a common curriculum was what mattered and all pupils should be given the same opportunities of learning the same subjects . |
| 16 | In this case , the taxpayers should ensure that either they pay rent for each day of the use or that the property is not available for their use for extended periods when the parties have no intention of using the same . |
| 17 | Whether this is a real practical difficulty depends on whether the desire to save face would not anyway have this effect of encouraging the same decision to be made again , even if there were no risk of a damages award . |
| 18 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
| 19 | Ward objectives will give her guidance in making the most of each allocation . |
| 20 | The ship took a break from patrolling the former Yugoslavian coast to dock in Albania . |
| 21 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 22 | Mr Uppal took pleasure in inviting the former Home Secretary , Douglas Hurd , to Hounslow last year , presenting the borough as a harmonious model of good race relations . |
| 23 | Mr. G. W. Ace gave an interesting and informative talk on making the most of a small greenhouse . |
| 24 | It commits the industry to applying the same ban on billboard advertising overlooking playgrounds as already applies to billboard advertising close to schools . |
| 25 | One senses that a few bowling attacks are likely to feel the frustration of Smith as he works out his disappointment at missing the latter stages of the World Cup . |
| 26 | Participant observation , then , is an attempt to put both observer and observed on the same side by making the former a member of the group so that he can experience what they experience and work within their frame of reference . |
| 27 | Swindon Town have strengthened their side by signing the former Spurs and England defender Terry Fenwick on a one year contract … |
| 28 | A significant achievement was persuading an estimated 23,000 former contra rebels to demobilize [ see pp. 37370-71 ; 37450 ] but Chamorro antagonized right-wing parties in the ruling UNO coalition by retaining the former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra as the C.-in-C. of a re-formed army [ see pp. 37527 ; 37849-50 ] . |
| 29 | Whelan chose the Faldo route to fame and fortune , employing world No 1 coach David Leadbetter in the hope of acquiring the same consistency . |
| 30 | It 's like a recipe — you leave out this or that ingredient and it kind of tastes the same , but not exactly . |