Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a retailer wants to find out the value of sales for each metre of shelf space in a shop , he needs first to find out what the TOTAL shelf measurement is , by measuring each shelf and adding the lengths together . |
| 2 | The restrictions were initially adopted as a temporary measure designed to slow down the flight of foreign currency reserves from the country . |
| 3 | As a representative of non-Zionist Jews Wolf played an important role at the Paris peace conference of 1919 , where his close association with the British delegation helped to bring about the conclusion of the minority treaties . |
| 4 | Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972 , the President moved to take on the legislature . |
| 5 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 6 | And her mind tried to blank out the rest of it . |
| 7 | Just as he had had the nerve to try to pick up the casting director at his first audition , so he had the taste and — in sociological terms — the cheek to seek out the stylish and lovely Nina Bawden , later the novelist . |
| 8 | Pegasus did n't win their first short corner of the game until the 28th minute , and that was down to Nadine Long , who at times was the only forward prepared to take on the Portadown defence . |
| 9 | the necessary heading allowance , that is the amount of fabric needed to make up the heading |
| 10 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 11 | However , the policing of images of sexual violence appears to fall down the gap between the two , sometimes being subject to one policy , and sometimes the other . |
| 12 | Accordingly , this chapter aims to set out the requirements for a fully configured GIS interface , and profiles the development of a new GIS user interface system called UGIX . |
| 13 | The research aims to find out the contribution of the different types of activated information for the successful production of the object 's name . |
| 14 | The research aims to bring out the character of the efficiency-effectiveness debate and the nature of accountable management as it is being developed through the Financial Management Initiative , the efficiency strategy and associated developments . |
| 15 | Isabel , backing further into the shadows , dared to breathe again when the soldier went to pick up the ale-cups . |
| 16 | Bachelard tries to think through the problem of how epistemological obstacles operated both before and after scientificity . |
| 17 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 18 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 19 | It gave us both lots of pleasure trying to work out the various clues , so we shall give ourselves a pat on the back for doing so well — hope you will have some more mind-boggling competitions in the future . |
| 20 | The 1992 programme seeks to tighten up the public purchasing process so as to provide businesses with the prospect that in practice , rather than theory , the whole of the EC market is truly open to their competitive offers . |
| 21 | Lying awake that night , Lindsey sighed , tossing restlessly as her mind refused to switch off the events of the day . |
| 22 | Out of the West : Fast Icelander set to speed up the Bush image |
| 23 | Some in industry have to carry out the same operation . |
| 24 | The remainder of the chapter begins to open up the question of what impact new technology is having on whatever jobs may remain . |
| 25 | The tremendous build-up of soot on the tunnel roof tended to clog up the apertures of the brick ventilators so a ‘ blow back ’ effect was often experienced by footplate crews . |
| 26 | If ivy starts to grow up the trunk of a tree with attractive bark , it may be worth removing the ivy , but only to preserve the appearance of the tree , not its state of health . |
| 27 | West ( 1975 ) develops a taxonomy designed to separate out the different strands in the ‘ great public debt debate ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The county council has to make up the remainder but it has already limited the amount it intends to spend . ’ |
| 29 | 3 members of the management want to buy out the firm to save it . |
| 30 | He said the council intends to tighten up the by-law on dog fouling making it an offence for owners not to clear up after their dogs . |