Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pilots had little faith in the system and kept their heads and height down , preferring to risk prosecution by the CAA for low-flying rather than run the risk of killing themselves and another crew . |
| 2 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 3 | Staff working in centres in which facilities for attempted suicide patients are developed should endeavour to monitor trends in the behaviour in their area . |
| 4 | The Whole Curriculum ( 1975 ) and The Practical Curriculum ( 1981 ) both sought to alert teachers to the complex issues that have to be taken into account in whole curriculum planning , but both eschewed the provision of ready-made answers . |
| 5 | This view has also received support from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and from the environmental directorate of the European Commission , although in the UK government itself the Department of the Environment failed to acknowledge receipt of the FoE reports . |
| 6 | However , it is important for him and the Opposition Front-Bench team to understand that when we replaced the old supplementary benefit scheme we sought to target help on the people who needed it most . |
| 7 | About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated . |
| 8 | The Asians will not want to lose ground in the mixed doubles in the build-up to Atlanta and the Belfast match will provide them with an opportunity to test the best in Europe . |
| 9 | He did n't want to lose people by the wayside you know and I think that was the feeling of most of us . |
| 10 | And I did n't want to go work for the Bank . |
| 11 | I did n't ever want to see Phantom of the Opera , no of course I have n't have n't |
| 12 | So far I have written of the individual in relation to his , or her , environment of other people and have pointed to object relationships as the key connections between the inner world of the individual and his outer world . |
| 13 | On Thursday 24 February a provisional committee was formed to support Raybestos in the Ballincollig/Ovens area . |
| 14 | But I still think I 'd prefer to see justice in the hands of what the Americans call the law enforcement agencies . |
| 15 | I still think I 'd prefer to see justice in the hands of what the Americans call the law enforcement agencies . |
| 16 | Competition The proposals included a number of reforms which were intended to stimulate competition in the financial system and also to remove some of the discriminatory aspects of the previous methods of regulation : |
| 17 | These are intended to alert users to the wide range of material available in the library and have covered such topics as Aids , Anatomy and Art , Business and 1992 , Fractals , The Metric System and the Tulip . |
| 18 | ‘ In Europe we tend to hit our irons better than the average American but we tend to lose shots around the greens . |
| 19 | With 100 $500 grants already on their way to scientists working in Russia , the International Science Foundation ( ISF ) has taken the first step towards meeting its goal of helping to preserve research in the former Soviet Union . |
| 20 | The advice is often given to see roses at the shows , and make your selection there . |
| 21 | Open gun positions were located in the bow , midships and extreme tail and provision made to carry bombs beneath the lower wings . |
| 22 | The Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF or MDF ) , whose leader Jozsef Antall was formally invited on May 3 to seek to form a government , agreed to support Göncz in the eventual presidential elections ; meanwhile the ( HDF ) First Deputy Speaker , György Szabad , would be acting Speaker while Göncz acted as interim President . |
| 23 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 24 | Even this further devaluation failed to restore confidence as the US treasury secretary announced that the United States would not intervene to support the dollar and intended to remove all controls on capital exports . |
| 25 | Darlington council yesterday agreed to demolish sheds at the motive diesel works east of Melland Street and landscape the site as part of the Railside Revival scheme . |
| 26 | During the political unrest of Edward II 's reign , Eastry sought to restore tranquillity to the realm . |
| 27 | It is a matter of deep regret that the Department of Social Security failed to provide copies of the instruments in time for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments to consider them and report to the House . |
| 28 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 29 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 30 | They agreed to tighten targets under the 1987 Montreal Protocol [ see p. 35678 ] by bringing forward the phasing-out of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) by four years to 1996 . |