Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] to [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 2 | I feel that your columnist Liam ‘ Mine-And-Your-Social Conscience ’ Fay misses much of the point of P. J. O'Rourke 's works , as he clearly falls into the category of what O'Rourke refers to as the ‘ permanently indignant ’ . |
| 3 | Well because the labour in say this country is over productive , this has an awful lot of categories attached to each unit of labour , that 's why labour is very productive , is that you for each unit of labour employed there might be ten units of capital , I E there are chemicals etcetera , the reason why erm this this pressure on the land in say Africa , Africa , even though the density of population was much less and that there 's virtually no capital there , right , so in order to produce the food , you know the labour has to till the soil by hand and spread the seed by hand |
| 4 | Consider , for example , that type of syntactic structure which Chomsky refers to as the kernel sentence , of which the following are examples : |
| 5 | When they both snuff it — Streep is pushed down the stairs and Hawn shot — the movie 's special effects come into their own as failed plastic surgeon Willis sets to with the spray paint and filler to patch up the damage . |
| 6 | Both working-class and middle-class masculinities are involved , with defences of the neighbourhood against racialized ‘ others ’ which Cohen refers to as the ‘ nationalism of the neighbourhood ’ ( Cohen , 1988 ) ; the proving of masculinity by beating up ‘ Pakis ’ ( Willis , 1978 ) ; the sexual harassment of black women ; and an aspect that deserves much greater research , in the middle-class and professional institutional context , the complex intertwining of masculinity , class and racism in the exclusion of blacks from employment or promotion by white male managers . |
| 7 | The maze of assumptions that constitute this other part of the structure is what Lakatos refers to as the protective belt . |
| 8 | However , even if things go badly , so long as we survive as partly rational creatures we should always be able to find some satisfaction in understanding our situation and doing what reason points to as the most effective way of dealing with it . |
| 9 | Hurry up your mother wants to By the way your tea 's ready . |
| 10 | Extra input current drawn through the troublesome capacitance C amounts to From the point of view of the input terminals , the presence of capacitance C makes it appear that there is additional reactive impedance bridging the input terminals . |
| 11 | Well you know what salt does to underneath the car . |