Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important for national courts to use all proper aids to the interpretation of Community legal texts ( such as the preamble ) even if they are not accustomed or allowed to do the same in relation to their own national texts . |
| 2 | Such human needs will range from the basic ones for security , which are threatened when other members of an organization wish to close part of the operation down or attempt to perform the same operations with fewer personnel , to the need for self-realization , which may be threatened by extreme specialization and limited capabilities within the division of labour perceived by those in authority to be necessary for the maximization of their objectives ( which will invariably be presented as the goals of ‘ the organization ’ ) . |
| 3 | It is what it is , it 's just another record that happens to have the same people on it as ‘ Harvest ’ … |
| 4 | But you could have er , be er could now be referring to a different row that happens to have the same numbers in . |
| 5 | Inner Cities Minister Sir George Young announced that plans to develop the former Herculaneum Dock in south Liverpool will get government backing . |
| 6 | What is the nature of the relationship between proper names and descriptive referential phrases that happen to designate the same objects ? |
| 7 | An education report that appears to support the former theory is a pussyfooting piece of dangerous nonsense , says John Rae . ’ |
| 8 | Four years after a deaf , blind mentally handicapped woman was found dead in the squalor of her own home , a new register has been launched that hopes to stop the same thing ever happening again . |
| 9 | The first characteristic of any mammal that seeks to make the most of this abundant harvest is sufficient lightness to climb and move about among the slenderest and highest branches . |
| 10 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
| 11 | Drawing on North American experience , the Commission concluded that ‘ poor management was an important contributory factor to New York 's problems ’ , and sought to apply the same lessons here ( p. 2 ) . |
| 12 | The conceptual requirements are to be clear and exact in our use of these and subsidiary terms , and to confront and seek to resolve the many and often contentious value issues which each of them raises . |
| 13 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 14 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 15 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 16 | The girl threw caution to the wind and tried to make the most of every minute via sex , drink , numerous abortions , and late-night revels . |
| 17 | Cleveland police have studied the Derby operation and hope to use the same type of scheme . |
| 18 | She grew up in the African bush , and came to love the many wild animals as well as the domestic animals on her father 's farm . |
| 19 | He got out and helped her from her seat , and turned to do the same for Dana . |
| 20 | Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value . |
| 21 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 22 | It is the shortening of a passage for general consumption , and aims to maintain the same information content , but to express it more economically . |
| 23 | He might like the proposal you have in mind , and decide to do the same on his property . |
| 24 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 25 | Think positively and try to make the most of your appearance so that you feel your absolute best all day . |
| 26 | The peasant then walks past the corpse for a second time and emerges to ask the same question . |
| 27 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 28 | In 1938 he read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and appeared to suffer the same ‘ road to Damascus ’ transformation of personality which afflicted Arnold Leese on reading that document . |
| 29 | This was a glorious end to the season for Gregarians , revelling in the April sunshine and determined to make the most of their final appearance . |
| 30 | Piaget 's claim is that the cognitive difficulties which infants come to resolve ‘ on the plane of action ’ in infancy reappear , in childhood , ‘ on the plane of [ verbal ] concepts ’ and have to receive the same kind of solution — by way of the direction , inhibition and co-ordination of cognitive acts . |