Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 2 | You should certainly benefit from some kind of major career or professional change to come around the 4th and the 11th . |
| 3 | She hopes ( ‘ in a money sense ’ ) that he will ‘ get the Civil Service post : Nice to have a little money to spare above the necessaries of life . ’ |
| 4 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 5 | They are no longer playing with it or enjoying it , but try with a numb next-door-to-crying persistence to scramble over the wall and climb the slag-bank . |
| 6 | Such a duty of confidence is subject to , and overridden by , the duty of any party to that contract to comply with the law of the land . |
| 7 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 8 | The women there will tell you how all those jobs are defined by low pay in many cases , by low status , by very little opportunity to move into the high grades . |
| 9 | Younger workers living in company dormitories have little opportunity to escape from the affairs of their firm and from an early age their leisure time is dominated by work colleagues . |
| 10 | The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework . |
| 11 | Preventative measures are indeed being advocated by the N.S.C.A. as an interim measure to deal with the widespread nuisance caused by straw and stubble burning after harvest . |
| 12 | The second point is that of course as we accept into the role of opposition indeed to give these alternative proposals , give this particulary case to come within the government guidelines . |
| 13 | Donnington now produces the only beer on the Cotswolds and , with the possible exception of Uley , is the smallest working brewery to survive in the county . |
| 14 | Mr Takeshita wants that election to come after the Paris economic summit in mid-July , hoping that the voters will be impressed with his statesmanlike performance in dealing with the Latin debt crisis . |
| 15 | Try to make these positive , and if possible try to manage with the resources already available to you . |
| 16 | An innovative attempt to distinguish between the more objectionable forms of cheque-book journalism and the literature which makes a significant contribution to the culture or contributes to the prevention of crime or the rehabilitation of offenders is being made in Victoria , Australia , where the Crimes ( Confiscation of Profits ) Amendment Act 1991 ( Vic. ) , although expanding the concept of ‘ benefit ’ to include the profits of criminal expression , will provide a court with discretion to decide whether or not to treat the profits as a ‘ benefit ’ for the purposes of the Act . |
| 17 | The side was important in the development of young players with first team potential and the women should not allow an unbridgeable gap to emerge between the Premier side and the rest of the teams , as the men had . |
| 18 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 19 | The two girls were rescued from the car by their mother uninjured … she 'd run after the car in a vain attempt to pull on the handbrake . |
| 20 | Leave five minutes before each interview to look at the candidate 's application form/letter , and any particular questions noted down while first reading it . |
| 21 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 22 | The question is whether these hallowed archaisms are only a surface phenomenon which a sensible modernization of Parliament would easily sweep away , or whether they indicate a fundamental unsuitability in the traditional kind of representative institution to cope with the problems of modern democratic government . |
| 23 | The Church in Wales is soon to appoint a full-time priest to help in the area . |
| 24 | As a Stalinist , Nizan was doubtless reassured that prompt action to deal with the anti-Soviet activities had been taken . |
| 25 | One is North Korea 's declared intention to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) after the demand of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) to inspect sites which Pyongyang says are non-nuclear . |
| 26 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |
| 27 | At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier . |
| 28 | Some of these sound waves reach the ears of the listener and travel down each earhole to press on the stretched membrane of the eardrum . |
| 29 | If the concentration of production and distribution units becomes a major force in the transition to the SEM , there will be an inevitable tendency for that concentration to occur in the core regions which will probably not only contain relevant headquarters and production units , but will also guarantee proximity to markets and immediate access to a range of supporting service functions . |
| 30 | The painting of July 1890 , executed just days before van Gogh killed himself , and France 's first historic monument to go on the block , was sold on 6 December by Jean-Claude Binoche to French banker and businessman Jean-Marc Vernes . |