Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming on the heels of last week 's selling — some would call it over-selling — the endorsement provided a welcome boost to trading at the start of the new three-week account . |
| 2 | But cricket club president Brian Kneeshaw stressed the move did not alter his club 's stated opposition to parting with the land , described by a local councillor as ‘ the jewel in Middlesbrough 's crown ’ . |
| 3 | They would need to insist on Eastern states meeting minimum labour standards as a pre-cursor to trading with the West . |
| 4 | I had no intention to going into the art business and although I had done ‘ extra art ’ at school , I sully intended going on the stage . |
| 5 | World View : The virtues of old history : Lawrence Freedman argues that the key to coping with the future lies in past events |
| 6 | Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA . |
| 7 | The gospel touched their lives at the point of loneliness , so the church opened a day care centre providing a lounge with comfortable chairs and a hot meal as an alternative to depending on the local authority ‘ meals on wheels ’ . |
| 8 | An alternative to digging in the green manure in spring is to cut and add the material to the compost heap . |
| 9 | To be based in London would , under normal circumstances , have been a highly desirable alternative to dashing about the Midlands and the North of England doing one night shows for the troops in draughty halls and freezing aircraft hangers . |
| 10 | As a consequence , there is a growing population of landless farmers whose only alternative to migrating to the ghettos of the major cities is to invade the forests . |
| 11 | In face-to-face meetings all the visual signals are a great aid to getting on the same wavelength with someone . |
| 12 | But where industries are dominated by the market-share/experience curve effects , the logic underlying the BCG model can be a useful aid to thinking about the policy of SBUs in those particular industries . |
| 13 | They were treated to a rare return to sparring in the middle of the street . |
| 14 | To isolate one stage , i.e. , the catalogue consultation , without reference to searching at the shelves can mislead and confuse the means with the end . |
| 15 | While the figures given presumably refer to the state of play in 953/1546–7 , the note in the summary that the original salary for teaching was 15 akce and the reference to teaching in the section concerned with the stipulation(s) laid down by the founder sart-i vakif ) suggest that the medrese figured in the original . |
| 16 | The ending of exchange control in 1979 was a great stimulus to lending to the overseas sector . |
| 17 | Its main proposals were ( i ) a 20 per cent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide by the year 2000 , with a 40 per cent cut by 2010 ; ( ii ) a ban on offshore oil drilling in state waters ; ( iii ) a halt to logging in the ancient redwood forests ; ( iv ) a requirement that a new tree be planted for every 500 square feet of development ; and ( v ) a ban on all pesticides with the potential to cause cancer or to damage a developing foetus . |
| 18 | Stress directs resources away from dealing with the job to dealing with the emotional discomfort and personal threat . |
| 19 | Rugby , whose spectators are a fairly respectable lot , turns a blind eye to fighting on the field . |
| 20 | In the Grantham area engineering geologists are paying particular attention to land-slipping on the Middle Jurassic Lincolnshire Limestone escarpment and the underlying Lias clays . |
| 21 | Pay particular attention to rinsing round the hairline , where make-up collects , and around the nose . |
| 22 | South Korea has committed $5 billion over ten years to investing in new technologies , Ward reminded his audience , and Singapore and Taiwan attach the same importance to staying at the cutting edge . |
| 23 | Whatever the interpretation , the cumulative research and survey data since 1978 suggests an urgent need to took at the justifications , dynamics and effectiveness of grouping . |
| 24 | The move to lending in the 1980s for ‘ adjustment ’ , and away from projects , has replaced a set of conditions closely tied to projects with a set tied to broader conditions affecting a whole economy , or large sectors within it . |
| 25 | Nearby branches of Books Etc were untouched — although of course they could not avoid being affected by the disruption that was caused by the bomb to trading in the area . |
| 26 | Most yachtsmen from the south think of the wild weather as the chief drawback to cruising in the extreme north west . |
| 27 | The neighbouring county of Gwynedd has as its establishment of higher education , Bangor Normal College ; a largely monotechnic institution under the North Wales Counties Joint Education Committee offering teacher-training courses , it is giving increasing emphasis to teaching through the medium of Welsh . |
| 28 | Paul understood his own sufferings as being a signal to unbelievers of the power of the crucified Jesus over suffering and death . |
| 29 | The arrival of the Mendip mast and colour television brought an added breadth to viewing in the West . |
| 30 | The percentage efficiency of VT2 binding to each mutant probe was determined with respect to binding to the wild-type probe . |