Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 2 | But what has outraged all of us is the spectacle of attempts to make you the scapegoat for failures of the criminal justice system , the cause of which , however defined , lay outside your control or responsibility . ’ |
| 3 | But at least give that person whose turn er , on the Management Committee for representing er , another committee , give him the opportunity to s either speak on it , or to say whether or not he wishes to carry on and of course to see what the vote people would take , and to put himself forward even so , which unfortunately , I was n't er , able to do so . |
| 4 | Volleyball : Chelmsford Partners women 's volleyball side are banking on a wealth of experience to give them the edge this Sunday in their first English Volleyball Association Cup Final.The team has an average age of nearly 34 , but they still fancy their chances of defeating a younger Sheffield Wednesday at Riverside ( start 1.30 pm ) . |
| 5 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 6 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |
| 7 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 8 | Gartmore investors will have to wait until the end of January to know who the new owners will be although it will almost certainly be an overseas based group . |
| 9 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 10 | Foreign Agriculture is full of evidence to suggest what the cynical reader must have already suspected , and what the open minded reader may well be beginning to suspect . |
| 11 | It makes your body pour out masses of adrenalin to give you the strength to draw on your reserves to protect yourself and fight off the danger . |
| 12 | Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy . |
| 13 | At least , they were trying to surround it , but you 'd need an awful lot of humans to surround something the size of the Ship . |
| 14 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 16 | The Arkansas Governor , Bill ‘ Slick Willie ’ Clinton , has outpandered California 's ex-Governor Jerry ‘ Moonbeam ’ Brown by a whisker , has spoken a bit more sense with a bit less pizzazz and conviction , and looks set to scoop a big enough bundle of votes to guarantee him the nomination — unless he falls victim to further scandal or Democratic Party fixers impose a ‘ brokered convention ’ to find a last-ditch candidate . |
| 17 | Mr Singleton knew other talented people , among them an extremely obliging fellow who could treat a sheet of notepaper to give it the feel and appearance of age , and could also produce ink of a quality used in the past . |
| 18 | He underlined the need for art to communicate what the artist has felt : |
| 19 | ‘ We have institutional processes inhibiting the opportunities for farmers to provide what the consumer wants , ’ says the professor . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ One has to keep it under review to see what the need might be . ’ |
| 21 | Foreman agreed to link up with Stafford to give him the chance to attract another League club . |
| 22 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 23 | But the men from the Midlands had enjoyed themselves so well , they decided the engraved glass trophy should stay in Scotland to give them the excuse to come back and play for it again ! |
| 24 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 25 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 26 | If the exclusive is now commonplace ( it is n't really , but unfortunately some people do n't know that ) , and if exclusivity can mean so many different things simultaneously , it has now become necessary to look beyond just fashion in apparel to explore what the class-cultural dynamics now are . |
| 27 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 28 | If one has to resort to such an intentional framework in order to make sense of the behaviour , in order to explain what the creatures are doing and why , and has so to resort after exhausting all possibilities of more austere , less anthropomorphic frameworks of explanation , then one is on the route to linguistic meanings . |
| 29 | Scenes are also still hand-coloured in order to give them the classic Disney feel , but developments in automatic colouring systems could well change this before too long . |
| 30 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |