Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cinema even had a special computer installed to cope with the demand for bookings . |
| 2 | The cinema even had a special computer installed to cope with the demand for bookings . |
| 3 | The observer pegs one end of a string of length r to a fixed point O and then makes a circuit round O so that the string is all the while fully stretched , but of course confined to lie in the surface . |
| 4 | He was looking neither to the right nor the left but out to sea , where a round ship was coming in from the south-east , her sails shuddering , her course designed to intersect with the Genoese just outside the harbour . |
| 5 | Such considerations were probably crucial before initiation ritual developed to deal with the conflicts between sons and fathers ; but even after such conflicts had become institutionalized and ritualized neoteny had an important role to play in postponing the age of initiation by opening up that gap in human psycho-sexual development which Freud called the latency period and which , as we shall see , is an important factor in considering the social and mental health of modern societies . |
| 6 | It is a programme designed to add to the wealth and efficiency of the nation , to give a spur to industry and to open the way to markets . ’ |
| 7 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 8 | A lawyer prepared to fight to the death |
| 9 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 10 | But because labour related to cost of the total has gone up so much , er i i most people now prepared to pack would prefer to do . |
| 11 | It is primarily by the spreading of awareness of foreign legal systems among our students that we can hope to accelerate the process of harmonization and to produce practitioners and judges of the future prepared to look beyond the horizon of their own legal system . |
| 12 | Romanians called pigs ' trotters ‘ patriots ’ because they were the only bits of the pig allowed to remain in the country . |
| 13 | Why was such a dangerous practice allowed to continue with the chance that the offender might never have been caught ? |
| 14 | The victory ended a run of three successive defeats , and Shell showed himself to be a relatively undemonstrative head coach prepared to listen to the advice of his assistant coaches and players before calling the big plays . |
| 15 | Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm |
| 16 | The adjacent 20 acre site is earmarked for another container terminal and is currently at the advanced planning stage with work scheduled to commence by the end of this year . |
| 17 | At a meeting of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Complaints made by the Officers of this Institution . |
| 18 | The committee appointed to enquire into the copper trade and mining ( 1799 ) , said in their report that copper bolts had never been considered strong enough , and that the practice of copper bottoming was stopped by about 1750 , as a result of the losses , and the fact that at one time a third of the navy was in dock under repair . |
| 19 | He had also appointed professional diplomats to take over from the members of the Soviet Political Consultative Council delegated to negotiate with the Baltic states on issues arising from their independence from the Soviet Union [ see p. 38541 ] . |
| 20 | A second place where today 's deficiency of understanding can be witnessed is in the improper place given to experience at the expense of understanding . |
| 21 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 22 | The cactus finch , for example , has a long beak designed to feed on the flowers of the prickly-pear cactus ; while its remarkable mangrove cousin uses its beak to manipulate twigs to extract insects from deep within the bark of trees . |
| 23 | In this year , Samuel Healing opened his new mill , the business destined to remain in the family for many years . |
| 24 | The practices were revealed in a report by Andrei Zolotkov , a chemical engineer and Supreme Soviet deputy , at a press conference called to coincide with the annual follow-up meeting of the member countries . |
| 25 | Whoever takes control , loss of League status beckons an inexperienced team forced to learn on the run . |
| 26 | Faintly irked by the ‘ crisis ’ of white music — that its body has been ‘ forgotten ’ , its attention allowed to meander across the debris of a vast information explosion , away from the folk fire , to be easily bored , jaded , distracted — beige vocalists attempt to construct an ersatz black body to signify … what ? |
| 27 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 28 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 29 | The Doctus contract scheduled to expire at the end of June 93 has been extended until December to allow further work to be undertaken in specific areas within the company . |
| 30 | Though there is no appeal procedure laid down if the chairman of the meeting rejects a proxy duly lodged and therefore does not allow that creditor 's vote , it is open to the creditor affected to apply to the court for the chairman 's decision to be reversed and for a new meeting to be held . |