Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 2 | Does the Minister agree that he and his colleagues are responsible , first , for refusing to take action to clear up the fiasco on the issue of computer records being used , secondly for refusing to abolish the 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Ernest Saunders , the former chairman of the brewing and distilling company Guinness plc , had been convicted on Aug. 27 on two charges of conspiring to contravene the 1958 Prevention of Fraud ( Investments ) Act , on eight charges of false accounting and on two charges of theft , and was sentenced on Aug. 28 to two concurrent terms of five years and 3@1\2 years respectively . |
| 4 | The Conservative government preferred to follow the Labour route of seeking to expand the 1948 Treaty of Brussels to incorporate Italy and West Germany . |
| 5 | The method used will be mainly that of attempting to contrast the two versions in the same context . |
| 6 | Labour notes that the introduction of CDT into schools has been adversely affected by the shortage of teachers and the influence of having to balance the three elements of the subject . |
| 7 | I welcome the Secretary of State 's intention to fill in the student gap , but I am bound to say that I can see no logical reason for attempting to collect the 20 per cent . |
| 8 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 9 | Old-timers who censure today 's superstars for failing to emulate the three GPs in a day performances of Hailwood and Co are blind to the advances of science . |
| 10 | While there are numerous conceptual models relating both to ageing and to disability , the problem lies in attempting to link the two together . |
| 11 | I actually believed I was thinking clearly as I plotted ways of fleeing the country before having to pay the thousands of pounds I appeared to owe . |
| 12 | But until it does , constant confusion arises from trying to combine the two approaches . |
| 13 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 14 | A particular difficulty in trying to estimate the ninety-three , four er position , was erm , stemmed from er , the independence of further education colleges . |
| 15 | No press release was made and I experienced extraordinary difficulties in trying to obtain the 1985 échelle des crus , Quite why this historic event was clothed in such secrecy is a mystery . |
| 16 | A search for " industrialization " must retrieve the 98 books indexed under " industrialisation " or " industrialization " before offering to show the 2,000 books under " industry " The stemming procedure used is substantially that of Martin Porter , split into weak and strong phases and with the addition of a certain amount of spelling standardization at the weak level . |
| 17 | The plucky pensioner returned to her flat from shopping to find the two teenagers rifling through her bedroom . |
| 18 | We are coming to Berling to relive the Fifties and rebuild the Berlin Wall . |
| 19 | Sharif retaliated by refusing to let the four go and furthermore supported the charges laid by the Punjab police against leading PPP members in the state , including Salman Taseer , deputy leader of the PPP in the provincial assembly . |