Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam lost his spiritual purity through eating the forbidden fruit , so God gave him the opportunity to reinstate himself partially through immersion in the original water which came from Eden . |
| 2 | Obviously , the Nimbus pilot was at fault for allowing the other people at the launch point to influence his judgement . |
| 3 | The methods a research-based practitioner can use and the techniques for handling the resulting data are outlined in a clear and usable way . |
| 4 | After entering the introductory corps at Ruffwood Comprehensive School , he joined the regular army at 16 and ‘ lived for being a soldier ’ . |
| 5 | Once I had written these letters , I then applied to the Department that was officially responsible for serving the Diplomatic Corps . |
| 6 | It is n't quite so quick to use as the knobs of a panel-mounted set as there is no way of rotating the full MHz figures separately from the decimals ( it takes my fingers well over 150 twiddles to get from 118,00 to 136.975 Mhz ) , but there is a twenty-frequency memory bank , and you can cycle quickly through the stored frequencies . |
| 7 | But firearms enthusiasts , who shoot for pleasure , have accused politicians of targeting the wrong people . |
| 8 | Malaysia 's Prime Minister , Mahathir Mohamed , has accused Western campaigners of using the Penan people of Sarawak as a means of promoting the interests of temperate timber over tropical hardwood . |
| 9 | Would not an extension and strengthening of the nuclear test ban treaty be a means of helping the Soviet people ? |
| 10 | There 's little money in this business , Nancy , little money and no thanks — but I 'm fond of seeing the young people around me . ’ |
| 11 | The costs of gathering the initial data are relatively small in relation to the costs of the research itself . |
| 12 | The cost of refitting the Mexican tuna fleet to use dolphin-safe nets and techniques is put at $25 million . |
| 13 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 14 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 15 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 16 | I lived on top of the sea , so the task of transporting the various fish home , and returning them if they were not suitable , posed few problems . |
| 17 | However , closer examination shows that the large number of clients classified as having ‘ unknown , economic activity lessens the impact of the information and emphasises the difficulty of extracting the relevant data from them . |
| 18 | Instead of paying the normal £3.40 for each prescription , you can pay £17.60 for a four month ticket , or £48.50 for a yearly one . |
| 19 | Following the hearing , Mr Scott Vendrely , 29 , a military policeman who has served in Britain since 1987 , faces the prospect of paying the outstanding £538 bill for two years ' poll tax for his British wife Stephanie . |
| 20 | A further way of presenting the above data is to divide public spending between goods and services ( purchased by the state ) and cash transfers ( to individuals or industry ) . |
| 21 | After five and a half years of intense activity the burdens of leading the French people had worn de Gaulle down . |
| 22 | There have been some good examples of team working , radical ideas and of getting the right people involved to make changes happen . |
| 23 | so I think there 's a way of getting the blind people |
| 24 | Instead of providing the British people with more incentives to work hard and succeed , the Labour Government preferred to increase taxes , so that it was hardly worth one 's while to produce more wealth . |
| 25 | We all agreed that the B/R grant should n't go on SCC running costs , but the question is , what might be an appropriate way of spending the remaining £600 ? |
| 26 | The job of choosing the endangered species to be put on the waiting list belongs to the Captive Breeding Specialist Group , set up by the World Conservation Union — IUCN . |
| 27 | The history of corporate legislation enforcement is a history of penalizing the small fish whilst letting the big ones escape . |
| 28 | Is it an affirmation of what his junior energy Minister says : that it will be acceptable for the Scottish Office to be staffed by Members from constituencies south of the border , or of what his Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Scotland have said in the past 24 hours : that nothing will happen , or is he considering the possibility of affording the Scottish people the right to determine their own future in a democratic fashion ? |
| 29 | The final step in this early process of cataloguing the British Flora came when Druce published ‘ The Comital Flora ’ ( 1932 ) . |
| 30 | It also has the benefit of involving the very people who will carry the burden of implementing the decisions made — the teachers themselves . |