Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The opening of our new office demonstrates our commitment to our future involvement in Slovakia and gives us the opportunity to continue to build on the excellent relations that have already been established , ’ he added . |
| 2 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 3 | This chamber is a natural place for Bardul to retire to talk with the adventurers and offer some of his Lustrian coffee . |
| 4 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 5 | A good example of dogged determination to try to force into the marketplace an extremely ingenious invention which had been rejected by the consumer , was our pursuit of merulite packings for soft drinks . |
| 6 | Desperate scribes battled with bureaucracy to try to get to the athletes . |
| 7 | Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher . |
| 8 | The concept of level , it must be said , is not an original metaphor to bring to bear on the topic of consciousness : mystics have always talked of levels of consciousness , and the nineteenth-century vitalists wrote at length of the emergence of a level of consciousness from a sufficiently complex lower level of organization . |
| 9 | Any science teacher to apply to come on the course . |
| 10 | Through a system of ‘ Citizen Schools ’ Highlander slowly helped establish a methodology of non-formal adult education in which the students were able to relate to the subject which they needed to learn — in this case the desire to learn to read for the purpose of being able to vote . |
| 11 | No one knew how the fight between Jotan and Nogai had started and both had the right to refuse to speak against the other except in front of the Kha-Khan . |
| 12 | Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice . |
| 13 | Moldovan President Mircea Snegur imposed a state of emergency and direct presidential rule on March 28 , and called on the population to prepare to fight for the " motherland " , following a month of skirmishes and fighting in the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic [ for formation in September 1990 see p. 37723 ] . |
| 14 | No doubt the bank left it to Mr. O'Brien to procure his wife to agree to enter into the security transaction . |
| 15 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 16 | I expect demand for this service to continue to grow over the coming year . |
| 17 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
| 18 | In his genuine wish to continue to co-operate with the Board in the cause of the development of liberal adult education , Wash missed the substantive threat to the District 's future as the Responsible Body for Chapter III provision . |
| 19 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
| 20 | Of course , the owners need to slowly encourage independence , and help their dog to cope with a new sensory environment — but waiting for the dog to learn to cope with the problem is the only real cure . |
| 21 | The time has come for mankind to begin to live without the neurotic relics contained in religions . |
| 22 | Then , knowing what we want the group to achieve , set a transfer price that gets each division to decide to operate at the volume we want . |
| 23 | He ordered those of his crew still in a fit state to swim to take to the sea . |
| 24 | Nobody had criticized the Government for ‘ planning ’ the Normandy invasions , as Simon tersely argued , so it was perfectly reasonable for the Government to continue to plan after the war . |
| 25 | On Oct. 6 the House of Representatives approved a stop-gap spending bill to enable the government to continue to function in the absence of a budget agreement . |
| 26 | In conventional language we talk of a pointer moving across a scale to come to rest at the mark saying " here " or at the mark saying " there " . |
| 27 | It is vital for every pilot to learn to steer on the ground because it is a completely different technique to turning in the air . |
| 28 | In deciding the scope of a " fair comment " plea and the degree of interpretative sophistication to bring to bear on the question of whether a passage is " comment " or " fact " , the court should have regard to the constitutional importance of the " fair comment " defence as a protection for freedom of expression . |
| 29 | This would provide the basis for the defence to seek to prove during the trial that the US either knowingly tolerated or was complicit in Noriega 's illegal activities . |
| 30 | Whilst wanting it to do well , they mistrust single-party government , and they want the FOP to continue to serve in the Bundestag as a restraint on possible extremism . |