Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a lot of debate in political circles as to whether on-the-road campaigning should tackle political issues or concentrate on displaying the personality of the candidates . |
| 2 | Single genes ( the units of heredity ) can now be transferred , added or deleted by manipulating the genetic material . |
| 3 | Now John was not afraid to tell somebody as great as John that he was wrong and I see no reason why this general assembly should be afraid or inhibited about telling the authorities that they are wrong . |
| 4 | ‘ In any proceedings ( whether or not under this Act ) — ( a ) a statement of affairs prepared for the purposes of any provision of this Act which is derived from the Insolvency Act 1985 , and ( b ) any other statement made in pursuance of a requirement imposed by or under any such provision or by or under rules made under this Act , may be used in evidence against any person making or concurring in making the statement . |
| 5 | Many factors , such as differences between social classes in attitudes to marriage , could explain or contribute to explaining the difference . |
| 6 | Analogical representations , however , are understood or interpreted by matching the two structures concerned ( that is , of the representation itself and of the domain represented ) , and their associated inference-procedures , in a systematic way . |
| 7 | Beresford identifies three models or approaches to hearing the voice of the consumer . |
| 8 | This is the most satisfying of all the manoeuvres since with enough speed and with the daggerboard retracted the board is turned like a surfboard or ski by weighting the inside edge . |
| 9 | But what is certain is that the democratic principle — that people should , as far as possible , make or participate in making the decisions that affect them most closely and importantly — could beneficially be applied far more widely in modern societies than It presently is . |
| 10 | One point about this model which is unclear is this : what is it that prevents words like READY or READJUST from activating the word detector for READ ? |
| 11 | The editor and her senior staff must live or die by satisfying the consumer with the product they have to sell — one monthly mag — in order to ensure repeat sales . |
| 12 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 13 | I remembered I 'd had nothing to eat or drink before leaving the house , and thought how awful that I had n't even made Toby a cup of tea before obeying my impulse to run . |
| 14 | The diagnosis was confirmed or excluded by applying the criteria mentioned above to the relatives ' medical records from hospitals or private physicians . |
| 15 | Perhaps equally , the parent who sees himself or herself as " bad " may seek atonement or solace in becoming the " good " child — and accepting the ministrations of a substitute parent . |
| 16 | In most day units , whatever they are called , attenders normally spend a good deal of time chatting to other attenders or sitting about watching the world go by , doing nothing very much . |
| 17 | Experiments with a mirror confirm that the meaning of many famous paintings can be inverted or negated by reversing the picture . |
| 18 | A special congressional committee investigating arms and drug smuggling recommended in late 1989 that certain prominent politicians and officials should be excluded from public life or dismissed , or barred from entering the country , because of their alleged connections with such activities . |
| 19 | At the end of the prepass phase , the user will be given the option to proceed to the next phase , if no serious errors have occurred , or to terminate without entering the modules into LIFESPAN . |
| 20 | Are you able to give us an estimate of the time that elapsed between breaking the door in and being called away by your team leader ? |
| 21 | Now again I but give us as to the length of time that elapsed between flying the door door breaker and you radioing ? |
| 22 | The receiver may explain this harsh treatment by claiming that to go beyond meeting the minimum legal position would jeopardise his whole strategy . |
| 23 | He walked towards her then , nonchalantly , but with a determined gleam in his eyes that succeeded in halting the flow of complaint from Robyn 's lips . |
| 24 | As the volume of water required for lockage of the existing traffic was 1,000,000 cubic feet only , it is obvious that it would have been more effective in the saving of water to reduce leakage rather than to concentrate on reducing the passage of water through locks — and much cheaper . |
| 25 | Quite apart from the deafening thunder of the falls , and the awe-inspiring sight of their dramatic descent , the effect can be sheer magic on a fine day ; as the sunlight catches the spray in flight , and transforms it into an elusive pattern of shapes and colours that suggest in painting the Impressionism of Manet or the mists of Corot , or in music , the evocative nuances of Debussy . |
| 26 | For a list of suppliers that helped with building the house , see page 132 . |
| 27 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 28 | A classic dish that benefits from using the very best prunes ( pruneaux d'Agen , see p61 ) and bacon . |
| 29 | The effect is usually generated by the way the home is set up , the relationship between the occupants , and the care and attention that go into maintaining the household . |
| 30 | He 's a mixture of nerves , calm and excitement , and says that the rat race and the pressures that go with presenting The Breakfast Show can all ‘ go to hell ’ for a while . |