Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pos pn] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 2 | Many kinds of caterpillar need to move to a firm support to moult their skin the twigs in the cage serve this purpose . |
| 3 | Hahnemann described her as his best ever student and her deep love for him surely withheld the manuscript to deny his critics the opportunity of judging the 6th edition even more eccentric than the 5th . |
| 4 | The experts at Gliss Cormist recommend their cleansing , conditioning and styling range to give your hair the ultimate sheen . |
| 5 | Having the courage and determination to live your life the way you want to is not being a bitch . |
| 6 | When your own practice starts it is of the utmost importance to give your cases the most meticulous attention of which you are capable , and particularly , before going into court , to familiarise yourself with the various procedural contingencies . |
| 7 | Most mothers have n't the heart to deny their children the care and comfort they have given them all their lives and many continue to run round them long after they are old enough to look after themselves . |
| 8 | And I put in a request to see His Majesty the King . |
| 9 | Being here means we can cut down our flying time to our excercises in Wales , and With KLemble closing soon it gives us the chance to use its facilities-including the camouflaging of the woodland |
| 10 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 11 | I had a tremendous struggle to keep my medication the whole time I was in Holloway , and it started again when I went to Styal . |
| 12 | Rushdie had announced on Dec. 24 that he had embraced Islam and withdrawn permission to allow his book The Satanic Verses to be published in paperback . |
| 13 | Champion of the underdog and believer in the nobility of the common man , he lost no opportunity to teach his daughter the importance of never giving in or allowing herself to be beaten by lack of courage . |
| 14 | Mrs. Layton , a member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , made the decision to allow her husband the 1/6d to join the Cooperative Society in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ Moreover in the rush to reduce their census the hospitals discharged patients long before most of the community centres had been established and before supporting programmes had been developed ’ . |
| 16 | Another young man was in service there too , but he was from a rather well-to-do family who had paid the old man to teach their son the tricks of the trade . |
| 17 | ‘ While it is true the majority of sales staff at our 19 sites are women , we select our people purely on merit to offer our customers the very best in service and care . ’ |
| 18 | Sir Colin Marshall , BA 's chairman , said last night : ‘ We are delighted that Secretary Pena and his team have given us the opportunity to offer our customers the facility to travel on a global network with simplified booking and check-in procedures . ’ |
| 19 | The stability which had characterized Edward IV 's last years had thus collapsed , almost overnight , into a struggle for control during the minority which was in the end to lose his son the throne . |
| 20 | The stability which had characterized Edward IV 's last years had thus collapsed , almost overnight , into a struggle for control during the minority which was in the end to lose his son the throne . |
| 21 | He had hoped by this gesture to spare his people the customary vengeance which the Turks exacted indiscriminately against the population when Serbs defied them . |
| 22 | With just two minutes to go , the striker unleashed an explosive drive from the edge of the penalty box to give his side the spoils in a tightly-fought final . |
| 23 | Lucille Castineau stared gravely at her reflection in the mirror which , because it was only a small broken sliver , was being held by her maid , Jeanette , who was forced to tilt the glass up and down in an effort to show her mistress the whole dress . |
| 24 | Often they lacked day-to-day knowledge of the firms they had invested in , and had a tendency to sell their shares the instant a firm hit trouble . |
| 25 | She was not sophisticated enough to hide her bewilderment and in order to cover her embarrassment the Contessa said quickly , ‘ They are like brother and sister , signora . |
| 26 | Association director Richard Insoll warned : ‘ The Wine and Spirit Association will be reviewing this and other instances of apparent abuse of authority by EHOs in order to give its members the best advice . |
| 27 | In order to save her life the doctors stopped the treatment for the leprosy . |
| 28 | In order to house his family the King had divided up many of the larger rooms , and the different floors had been connected by narrow spiral staircases which gave on to gloomy corridors badly lit by oil lamps . |
| 29 | ( Laidler 1987 , p. 345 ) ( One argument for the UK fully joining the European Monetary System is that in order to maintain our par the UK would have to have the same ( low ) inflation rate as West Germany . ) |
| 30 | The aim of this project is therefore to analyse the agricultural and employment strategies of both refugees and their rural hosts , in order to examine their responses the experience of refugee migration , and their impact on the host country . |