Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They planned to buy it from Spiro 's cousin Nigel , but returned to California after telling neighbours the children hated the wet cold weather . |
| 2 | However , with changing attitudes in society , questions are being raised about the morality of denying girls the opportunity to sing in a cathedral choir . |
| 3 | ‘ To ask the Chancellor whether he proposes to take any action to counter the growing practice by companies of granting shareholders the option to receive dividends in the form of stock instead of cash , so enabling some shareholders to obtain a tax advantage . ’ |
| 4 | However , for some sets of neighboring paths the phase will not vary much between paths . |
| 5 | Later , eugenicists stressed the importance of teaching women the criteria by which to choose a mate . |
| 6 | There is a danger of seeing new technology as an end in itself and of teaching pupils the mechanics of microcomputer use without looking at what is done before and after pupils use the microcomputer . |
| 7 | Where this occurs in hard corals without the formulation of dividing walls the colony can , eventually , take on the convoluted patterns characterised by brain coral colonies . |
| 8 | Unrepentant , the naive Petrashevskii proceeded in February 1848 to circulate a document which called for granting merchants the right to own populated estates on condition that they dealt with their serfs in accordance with the Law on Obligated Peasants of 1842 . |
| 9 | Turning our backs on that insight is an option , of course , but it is an option like teaching children the world is flat . |
| 10 | Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were . |
| 11 | The research of Jerome Bruner , an eminent child-developmental psychologist , demonstrates how important play is as a vehicle for teaching children the conventions of their community . |
| 12 | Notice firstly that for accounting purposes the Bank 's function as the issuer of currency notes is shown separately from its banking activities . |
| 13 | Under resting conditions the cell membrane will not allow ions to diffuse passively across it , so the potential difference remains . |
| 14 | The distinction of meaning is especially clear with perfect participles ; these show a well-known alternation between interpretation as expressing an event ( therefore the occasion value ) and interpretation as expressing a state : ( 23 ) labelled goods vs sent goods The word sent is unusual prenominally precisely because it has the sort of meaning which makes an actual or implicit reference to the event of despatch , and hence it is far more likely to be used post-nominally . |
| 15 | When the UKCC announced its proposals for community nursing , Professional Nurse congratulated Council on its approach , which looked set to unite community nursing and pave the way for an improved service for patients , and also for giving nurses the opportunity to comment on the proposals in true democratic fashion . |
| 16 | In catering operations the procedure includes removal of waste scraps , litter and liquids . |
| 17 | She insists that even with the provisions of such a charter the idea ‘ can only work out in reality if both partners , in fact , share [ the childcare ] , because there is not much point in allowing women the opportunity of going further up the ladder if they continue to have almost sole responsibility for childcare . ’ |
| 18 | Over the years , four more films and a television series were to follow : the heroes found some difficulty in impersonating Raffles the cricketer , the arts of slow bowling being in short supply among leading actors . |
| 19 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 20 | Women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing men as stronger and saner |
| 21 | In redrawing boundaries the commissions are guided by rules laid down by act of Parliament . |
| 22 | Worthless words from mumbling shamateurs The Keating Column . |
| 23 | Worthless words from mumbling shamateurs The Keating Column . |
| 24 | In spilling breakers the crest spills down the front of the wave without the wave front becoming vertical and surges forward over the beach . |
| 25 | In measuring tasks the difficulty factors have been found to relate to a fragile understanding of basic concepts such as fractions and decimals , and number scales . |
| 26 | In racing terms the going was good for the championships which were split into four age groups … in all of them the start was like a cavalry charge as they ran off to tackle the 6000 metre long course … the best local performance came in the girls race where Nicky Slater from carterton who runs in the Radley colours came second … |
| 27 | In giving directions the court will be concerned to ensure that the child is not subjected to repeated and unnecessary examinations . |
| 28 | There is reason to hope that in coming years the fields of pronunciation teaching and of experimental phonetics will become much more closely linked . |
| 29 | In plunging breakers the wave front becomes vertical and the crest plunges nearly vertically downwards with far less surge up the beach . |
| 30 | The Venerable David Silk , Archdeacon of Leicester , summing up the theological opposition , said that in ordaining women the Church of England would ‘ cease to be part of the Catholic , apostolic church and would be behaving as if it were the whole of Christianity , or a mere sect ’ . |