Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage . |
| 2 | It is for schools to embrace the same approach for disruptive pupils . |
| 3 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 4 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 5 | The pertinence of these arguments to Latin American reality was borne out most clearly by the failure of both rural guerrilla warfare ( powerfully symbolised by the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 ) and of attempts to apply the same tactics in an urban situation . |
| 6 | It enables a team of interviewers to give the same informants in the same predetermined order , and to record their responses in a standardized way . |
| 7 | You 're feeling exceptionally lucky so this is the best of times to launch a few other thoughts . |
| 8 | Promotional activity stresses safety , speed and comfort ( by direct comparison with the use of cars to cover the same type of journey ) , and the central location of termini ( compared with the relative isolation of airports ) . |
| 9 | Our comprehensive Discovery Holiday ( supplement £30 ) includes a fascinating range of visits to make the most of your trip to Amsterdam , yet allows you the flexibility to choose the itinerary that suits your individual taste . |
| 10 | Will he encourage members of the Church of England to show the same fervour in their own churches and to keep them open by watching them and looking after them ? |
| 11 | It was found that the hsdS ts-1 gene , present on this plasmid , failed to produce the temperature-sensitive R-M phenotype ; the efficiency of plating of bacteriophage lambda was reduced by approximately four orders of magnitude to give the same efficiency of plating observed with the wild type R-M system . |
| 12 | In the old days , when Margaret Thatcher was still a chemist , and John Major was John Major-Ball , most MPs and many Ministers stayed away from the Party conferences , regarding it as a necessary vulgarity , an annual opportunity for the spear-carriers and party bit-players to travel to a seaside resort out of season to spend a few days in the proximity of the great . |
| 13 | The form can be completed in a number of ways to request the same action . |
| 14 | The form can be completed in a number of ways to request the same action . |
| 15 | The form can be completed in a number of ways to request the same action . |
| 16 | To prevent a heavy landing as the airbrakes are opened , a backward movement is needed on the stick to increase the wing 's angle of attack to maintain the same amount of lift as before . |
| 17 | Kylie determined to be at the forefront of moves to get the same principles introduced in Australia and Britain . |
| 18 | It has been estimated that these various small-scale erosional processes require tens of Ma to overturn a few millimetres of dust . |
| 19 | Persuade a couple of typists to do the same . |
| 20 | The firms use the factors of production to produce the many different types of goods and services which they then sell to households ( whose spending is called consumption ) , the government , foreigners ( who buy exports ) and other firms ( whose spending on capital goods is called investment ) . |
| 21 | Although this looks at first to be quite incomprehensible , it is actually quite a friendly little creature and most willing to assist you with either your work or play , as long as you take a short amount of time to learn a few basic commands . |
| 22 | ‘ I do not suppose , however , that you will be applying for the position so I shall wait for Alain to send a few people here for me to see . |
| 23 | Hedge your bets with a foreign currency fund : Martin Baker reports on the best ways for investors to make the most of a falling pound |
| 24 | This is not a description that applies to WordStar alone — most of the Windows based word processors aspire to this kind of characterization , but WordStar as a company has paid a great deal of attention to the graphics side of the equation , and this includes fiddling with text to get the most impact from it . |
| 25 | If it was unavailable he took the dry and mixed that with sugar to achieve the same effect . |
| 26 | As one was under obligation to study the former , so too there was an obligation to study the latter . |
| 27 | Only headmistress Rosalind McCarthy , a teacher and the school 's caretaker are staying on with police to guard the former stately home . |
| 28 | Recent records have shown Siskins and Reed Buntings moving into towns to use the same food source in winter , and Blackcaps are regular in winter in some towns . |
| 29 | But it is a great temptation for people to say the latter , especially if they are ignorant of what others believe . |
| 30 | And this really was the basis therefore of the first films , they were really demonstrations that pictures could move , and this was sufficient for people to pay a few pence to come in erm and look at the films . |