Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will tell him the rules for bringing motions before the council , for moving amendments , for raising questions , for length of speeches , rights of reply and the like . |
| 2 | She now remembered how she had criticized her mother for bringing babies into the world without being able to look after them . |
| 3 | You might be tempted to attribute it to lowish wage rates ( at the Brasserie ? ) , but a good answer would produce figures to justify this assertion ( you know both the staffing structure and the total wage bill for 1983 , at least , so you could work out the average gross wage per annum and relate it to what you knew about catering wages for the period ) . |
| 4 | The people who had not yet moved out of hospital showed no clear trend in their level of participation in meaningful activity , strengthening the case for attributing changes in the group that moved to the community services rather than passage of time or general improvement in all services . |
| 5 | Amersham is paying $61.3m ( £38.3m ) to acquire Medi-Physics , the loss-making radiopharmaceuticals subsidiary of Hoffman-La Roche , to make the UK company the largest player in the £300m world radiopharmaceutical market , whose products are used for imaging organs of the body for diagnostic purposes . |
| 6 | A little girl described by Anna Freud got over her anxiety about seeing ghosts in the dark hall of her home by advising her brother , ‘ There 's no need to be afraid in the hall . |
| 7 | But winning the prize for Texas-style candour has been Billy Brown , who , when asked about allowing homosexuals into the armed forces , says ‘ Hell no ! |
| 8 | Last month 's PFK introduced you to some of my ideas for using herbs in the treatment of ill-health in fish . |
| 9 | To make this last step possible is one reason for using words of the same class . |
| 10 | You will be unable to type , except for drawing lines with the arrowed direction keys |
| 11 | Maeve Binchy 's gift for drawing readers into the lives of people from small communities , and for describing the evolution of friendships , have won her millions of readers . |
| 12 | TWO officers from the German police at Dusseldorf will be visiting North Wales today to learn about policing methods in the region as part of an international exchange scheme . |
| 13 | The program has tools for symmetrical drawing , dimension lines with changing measurements , master objects and clones for quick-editing , animation , and ‘ connectigons ’ for maintaining links in the drawing of a complex shape ( like a spiral staircase , for example ) which allow you to edit the shape easily as a whole . |
| 14 | The real question was whether they provided material for assisting challenges to the decision before the court , by way of evidence of what the expert had done and why he had done it . |
| 15 | However the use of radio and TV wave frequencies for transmitting programmes from the earth is rivalrous . |
| 16 | AN IDEA for transmitting signals through the mains wiring has been traced back to 1897 , when Joseph Routin and C. E. L. Brown of Zurich , Switzerland , took out British Patent number 24833 . |
| 17 | There is also concern that complainants might be put off bringing complaints for the same reason . |
| 18 | The maximum fines payable by companies or individuals prosecuted for breaching parts of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 have been increased sharply . |
| 19 | The Input/Output Interface contains one or more chips for handling signals between the computer and other devices , such as disk drives , printers and visual display units ( VDU 'S ) . |
| 20 | We have seen that by the time children start school they have developed the basic cognitive and linguistic abilities required for handling explanations in the empirical and intentional modes . |
| 21 | A considerable body of literature now exists to demonstrate the efficacy of operant conditioning for producing changes in the language behaviour of language-impaired children ( Garcia and DeHaven 1974 ; Mowrer 1984 ; Ruder 1978 ; Snyder et al . |
| 22 | While in most cases this will be unnecessary for pupils , it may initially be an advantage for the school librarian or teacher for producing lists from the database . |
| 23 | At this school I conducted interviews with 25 per cent of the staff , mostly those in senior positions and with responsibility for producing parts of the self-appraisal document . |
| 24 | The formula adopted for financing hospitals after the reorganisation of the health services in 1948 , however , was such that existing geographical inequalities inevitably continued . |
| 25 | Though it was not only the bridge and its impressive Baroque sculptures that Fabia found so memorable , but incidentals such as seeing swans on the river , or the feel of Ven 's hand on her elbow guiding her , or standing with her while she watched artists at work , or a man playing a violin , and hearing a flute being played somewhere while a trinket-seller sold his wares . |
| 26 | It is not always possible to keep to that principle , or to the above one about using words of the same classes . |
| 27 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 28 | The guests ' lounge is comfortable , with a wood-burning stove used for cooking chestnuts in the winter . |
| 29 | What about explaining variations in the rates of common surgical procedures like cholecystectomy and hysterectomy between regions and countries . |
| 30 | It contained potatoes to stuff up the exhaust pipes of expensive cars , and a very large sharp knife for tearing holes in the hoods of convertibles . |