Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is these measurable indicators which distinguish the service from many other education business strategies . |
| 2 | Within our society are groups which are called opinion formers because they influence the opinions of many other people . |
| 3 | Clearly these sets of circumstances influence the pragmatics of these statements , in ways that we have to unravel by close analysis . |
| 4 | Agboyibo obtained a meeting with Eyadema on March 17 , and the following day Eyadema met the leaders of all 10 groupings . |
| 5 | We met the equivalent of this knife-edge , you will remember , in the story of the Grudgers and Cheats in Chapter 10 . |
| 6 | And y that was the year I met d th I met the wife in that In June of that year . |
| 7 | Our aim was to determine whether our authors met the criteria for any of these forms of psychosis and , if so , to ascertain in each case which ‘ diagnosis ’ provided the best description . |
| 8 | I thought I was a serious fan , that was until I met the fans at this game . |
| 9 | Earlier this year , the Secretary of State met the representatives of all the major brewery companies , having received a deputation from the National Licensed Victuallers Association . |
| 10 | Alexei peered ahead at the swirling vapour which shrouded the place where the bridge met the face of another building . |
| 11 | That code was to be developed to ensure that public transport met the needs of all passengers , including the disabled and that it worked efficiently in the consumers ' interest . |
| 12 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 13 | Another tradition , focusing on psychosocial factors , typically de-emphasises or neglects the role of these established risk factors . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's bad ! ’ whispered the dairymen to each other . |
| 15 | ‘ What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas [ of particular value to wildlife ] in order to protect the environment . |
| 16 | What we are being asked to do now is to sacrifice the development of these areas in order to protect the environment . |
| 17 | Tories concede the validity of both points but they say no one attacked Mr Kinnock for his refusal to be interrogated . |
| 18 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 19 | Clearly , an important long term objective for any large organisation should be the production of a comprehensive negotiating suite , capable of forecasting the cost of any " standard " agreement , shorter work week , x per cent on basic pay , y per cent on differentials , reduction of retirement age , changes in shift premiums , call out payments , etc . |
| 20 | I really can not stress the desirability of this area strongly enough . |
| 21 | Many people abhor the extremity of this view . |
| 22 | Both the Scottish Nationalists and the Liberals favour the transfer of some strategic local government functions ‘ to a devolved Assembly , and the creation of a single-tier system of multi-purpose authorities ’ ( Keating and Midwinter 1983 : 101 ) . |
| 23 | Adherents of this second school favour the teaching of such vocational subjects as economics , accounting and law , science and engineering , computing and information technology — because these subjects are all directly relevant to the world of work . |
| 24 | To the argument that his State is not neutral , for its political organization , its property and contract laws , favour the implementation of some conception of the good , Nozick replies : |
| 25 | A letter from Superintendent Julian Field assuaged the fears of most members . |
| 26 | Keith Cowie 's work fits the bill on all counts . |
| 27 | Though she had foreseen the need for such a private moment Louisa would certainly not have chosen it to occur so quickly . |
| 28 | Blackpool had been experimenting with extensive rebuilding of the Marton and Motherwell cars , but the confines of Blundell Street Depot limited the scope of such activities . |
| 29 | There the exemption clause , according to its wording limited the liability of some seed merchants ( for supplying defective seed ) to the cost of replacing the seed ; it excluded liability for consequential loss of the buyers ' crop . |
| 30 | The imperfection of international law obligations , however , even where ( as only seldom happens ) the International Court of Justice at the Hague has compulsory jurisdiction , has severely limited the effectiveness of such schemes . |