Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A full council meeting is due to go ahead with the formality of passing the decision taken in January by members of Durham County Council 's social services committee . |
| 2 | It may seem petty to distinguish between the plural and singular form , and therefore unnecessary to include both in the index . |
| 3 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 4 | However , it should be recognised that while it is possible to analyse costs retrospectively to the individual patient , it is not possible to plan prospectively for the individual patient . |
| 5 | I have little to report here for the station is closed . |
| 6 | So now he sat there , his napkin tucked around his chin , smiling gently : a mild-natured , weak , weakened old man , loyal to his bully of a wife , glad to be included , glad Shirley had n't found it all too much for her , grateful to sit there in the warmth of the nice oil-fired 1970s central heating . |
| 7 | The Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical Education is due to report soon to the secretary of state for health on how staff in NHS teaching hospitals can be helped to teach better . |
| 8 | I am a Labour supporter with many friends carrying cards , and , despite having observed the ‘ anti-Labour virulence ’ of the SNP , I do want Labour to come together with the Nats , the Liberals , the Greens , the Unions , the churches , the mosques , the synagogues , Uncle Tom Cobbley and all . |
| 9 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 10 | The creative way of handling tensions is to be prepared to forgive right from the beginning . |
| 11 | The best leys , such as the alignment of the Devil 's Arrows standing stones in Yorkshire with the Thornborough Henges , pass their tests well , but the statistical models used are still not entirely adequate to cope fully with the real distribution of sites in the landscape . |
| 12 | But just around a bend in the road an opposition supporter who was frightened away from the station , Mr Ram Raj Upadhyaya , said : ‘ We are all terrified and afraid to go anywhere near the polling station . |
| 13 | But I was n't prepared to sit patiently on the sidelines while this process took place . |
| 14 | ‘ We are not prepared to go ahead with the Lord Chancellor 's proposals about fixed fees . |
| 15 | Leece says he is prepared to go anywhere in the world to obtain a reliable resist . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not prepared to go all around the world with England any more as third or fourth choice . ’ |
| 17 | For visitors willing to penetrate deeper into the Südstadt , Galerie der Spiegel at Bonnerstrasse 328 will exhibit small sculptures , models and sketches by Bozetti , and still further south , Galerie Gmurzynska , at Goethestrasse 65 , will have a double exhibition of Malévich and Ellsworth Kelly . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's funny to sit here in the warm sunshine , and think of all that going on here over the centuries . ’ |
| 19 | Known to have been offered privately by Christie 's in the recent past , it was also thought by some to compare unfavourably with the National Gallery , London , version . |
| 20 | Despite Rayners Lane 's lowly position , they were not afraid to come forward in the opening fifteen minutes , but could find no way past a resolute Milton defence . |
| 21 | They were afraid to come too near the house , so he escaped . |
| 22 | They were not prepared to comment further on the matter . |
| 23 | She was free to wander all over the estate and Mitch kept with her , his collection of shots growing . |
| 24 | In acute diseases it is generally adequate to look only at the symptoms of the acute disease itself . |
| 25 | And , in addition to having to keep his clothes clean , his body was often too bruised and painful to play apart from the fact that he did n't know how to . |
| 26 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 27 | The newly retired partner is often prepared to do more around the house , but may not realise that there is a difference between being helpful and fully sharing domestic responsibilities . |
| 28 | But it would be wrong to stress either in the middle ages or in the sixteenth century — the significance of parliamentary opposition . |
| 29 | This carries two great dangers : It risks damaging the UN 's moral authority and reputation for impartiality if it is seen as the vehicle of superpower foreign policy ; it causes huge embarrassment to the UN when , because of its own priorities , the US is unable to help , and the UN is then confronted with the question why have you failed to act decisively in our crisis while you were willing to do so in the case of Iraq 's aggression ? |
| 30 | In a national side , highly-talented players unused to playing together are too busy competing with one another to compete effectively against the other side . |