Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local residents have sought special legislation to protect the dolphins , an information centre has been built , and now full-time custodians are appointed to act as guardians and to teach the public how to treat the dolphins . |
| 2 | She intends to spend her retirement tending her garden and will help with some out-of-school activities such as outings and taking the football team to its matches . |
| 3 | We are inundated with rabbits , so we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top — the pigeons , caterpillars and slugs ate the lot . |
| 4 | He established collotype printing for illustrations and created the nucleus of a bindery . |
| 5 | For bogies and underframes the rolled steel bars were dealt with similarly to wagon components . |
| 6 | To repeat the border ( as illustrated ) knit 2 plain rows in dark colour between repeats and reserve the direction of the motif on each repeat . |
| 7 | It was quite spontaneous , for the Germans instigated nothing although they would sometimes co-operate in an elementary way by allowing wood for goalposts or permitting the construction of a theatre . |
| 8 | Created by John way back in 1910 , it began with the Girls grouped in sets of four dressed as ponies and imitating the animals ' movements . |
| 9 | For the finance community , what they 've got to do , too , is take a longer term view about projects and give the companies an opportunity to grow and ride the pitfalls and the the peaks and troughs . |
| 10 | Mr Lloyd said yesterday : ‘ My duty is to get the management able to provide the most constructive and positive regime for prisoners and to secure the best value for money . |
| 11 | It should be noted that this figure excludes sales to the UK sector of the North Sea which are not classified as exports and reinforces the point made in last year 's survey , that the Mechanical engineering sector in Grampian is having considerable success in widening it 's export markets . |
| 12 | Free trade , it was argued , would at last give effect to the natural harmony which should exist between peoples and end the artificial and destructive tradition of political and dynastic division which had hitherto kept them apart . |
| 13 | The initial BFS produced by this method can also be used as an initial BFS for the TRP by identifying i with as warehouses and i with as shops and allowing the initial BFS to contain only x i j , where i is a warehouse and j a shop . |
| 14 | Offences such as wasting police time and perverting the course of justice could be considered , with the possibility of both being taken to court as drivers and letting the court decide . |
| 15 | In the rush for funds or to exploit the fusion fanaticism , few had the time or inclination to look beyond the surface and see the shaky foundations beneath . |
| 16 | This rate of return is extremely rare for questionnaires and reflects the high level of interest by local companies , in a project which will lead to an invaluable source of reference . |
| 17 | Amersham has a strong position in the European market for radiopharmaceuticals and sees the acquisition of a complementary manufacturing base in North America as improving its chances of supplying the global market for such products . |
| 18 | It has been designed to be used by the professionals themselves who do not , said Moore Stephens , have the time or inclination to learn about computers but appreciate the efficiency benefits which technology brings to administration . |
| 19 | Others saw little value in the exercise and either received no personal feedback after visits or found the comments made to be unhelpful . |
| 20 | They want the Government to abolish Child Benefit and all tax allowances for parents and use the money to set up full-time Community Homes for everyone under the age of sixteen . |
| 21 | IR systems have not been designed for end-users and require the skills of an intermediary . |
| 22 | The report outlines what would happen in the event of nuclear war and maintains that talk of planning for , and training in triage and mass casualty techniques is meaningless , because surviving nurses would be able to do little other than help to provide limited care for casualties and comfort the dying . |
| 23 | I suspect he gave the comfits and marchpane to children in the village , sold the silver dish for alms and drank the wine himself . |
| 24 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 25 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 26 | He ran out of coins and asked the company secretary to ring him back . |
| 27 | There was a place — he recalled it now — Burkett had pointed it out to him when they were fishing on Derwent Water — a sheer cliff coming suddenly out of woods and fronting the valley . |
| 28 | The research will also trace the development of policies and identify the implications for future policy-making , local and national . |
| 29 | The ideal schedule is one which can be used by a team of interviewers and yield the same stimuli to informants with their responses being recorded in the same way . |
| 30 | ‘ As a result of very careful housekeeping , we have been able to deal with our list of creditors and to bring the cash problem under firm control . |