Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [v-ing] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |
| 2 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 3 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 4 | The banning of tobacco advertising would be a great contribution to achieving what the United States has already achieved . |
| 5 | He has already taken the trouble to obtain the opinions of a carefully selected group of North Britons ; what then can be his objection to ascertaining what the ordinary Scot in the street thinks ? |
| 6 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |