Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation . |
| 2 | Commenting upon the teaching of reading the report takes teachers to task for effectively teaching the mechanics of reading but failing in the process to help children recognise that reading was ‘ something that people did for pleasure , . |
| 3 | Methods for effectively representing the word list in memory to provide fast look-up times in a reasonably sized structure will be discussed in chapter three . |
| 4 | It was unfortunate that BRAC did not notice this fact before the start of the programme , however , BRAC deserves some credit for eventually noticing the mistake . |
| 5 | If you 're stuck for somewhere to take the kids on firework night and you want to know the one that 's nearest to you Action Line have got a great big long list you 've got piles have n't you ? |
| 6 | The fact that we already participate in certain ways in what are effectively rationing decisions does not constitute an argument for greatly increasing the scope and visibility of that role . |
| 7 | Scarborough , adequate flexibility of land supply , that 's a quote , it was referred to as a reason for greatly increasing the allocation above that which emerged from the er statistical work , paragraph seventy six of N Y seven and erm in Selby 's case erm , land potentially available is recognized to be an important consideration , paragraph seventy eight of N Y seven . |
| 8 | The iris diaphragm is responsible for constantly varying the aperture , the f stop . |
| 9 | On education , Mr Beith blamed the Government for constantly changing the rules and making teachers ' lives a misery . |
| 10 | It is likely that the report will provide added ammunition to environmentalists who have for long opposed the blanket afforestation of uplands . |
| 11 | Leaders are only leaders because they have followers ; no leader can for long ignore the views of followers ; and the absence of overt party constraints on leaders should not blind us to the fact that leaders need to anticipate the reactions of their followers if they are to retain a measure of needed support and loyalty . |
| 12 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 13 | These have for long met the needs of groups of people ( from the otherwise homeless poor family to the grant aided student ) for whom neither the public authorities nor the private market has been able to make adequate provision … |
| 14 | For long hauls the rivers still remained more important than roads in NEP , despite the fact that many of them flow to the Arctic and are frozen for long periods . |
| 15 | The ice mantle has for long overlapped the edges of the continent , unable to grow bigger without breaking off . |
| 16 | There was something compulsive about constantly superimposing the conditions of 1940 on 1947 : a foreign menace ( then Germany , now the USSR ) ; an internal force playing the enemy 's game ( then Vichy , now the Communist Party ) ; a weak state blindly trusting all to its ally ( then the Third Republic deferring to Great Britain , now the Fourth Republic deferring to the United States ) ; a minority of clear-sighted patriots uniting to rescue the nation ( then Free France , now the RPF ) . |
| 17 | No amount of talk about only permitting the tightrope-walker to fall will persuade otherwise . |
| 18 | It is always worth gently riffling the pages of a gilt-edged book when the bookseller is not looking ; though the devious fellow has probably done it already . |
| 19 | It had always been Jamie Reid 's belief that the Sex Pistols should be broken up after successfully scandalising the Jubilee . |
| 20 | Faye had said last night that she would be welcome at the informal gathering , but , ‘ I 'm planning to visit my family , ’ Belinda had explained truthfully , after politely declining the invitation . |
| 21 | At 7pm he telephoned his brother-in-law Paul Caddick , a police sergeant , and when he arrived , after eventually finding the key to the garage door under a mat , he discovered Paula 's body hanging from a rope which was wrapped four times around a beam . |
| 22 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |
| 23 | In 1588 , several inhabitants of Shrewsbury were imprisoned after physically resisting the attempts of the magistrates to pull down a maypole , and the following year the Mayor of Canterbury was confronted with a protest morris dance outside his house when he forbade maypole dancing in the town . |
| 24 | After easily reaching the quarter-finals of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup with a 6-1 , 6-4 victory over sadly outclassed Swede Nicklas Kulti , McEnroe — who could be playing his last singles tournament — refused to attend the normal mandatory post-match press conference . |
| 25 | He and Julius Sumawe , of Tanzania , passed halfway in 1:04:45 after easily discarding the rest of the field in the first kilometre . |
| 26 | Exit Becker , enter Sanchez , on a high after just winning the Sydney title . |
| 27 | WE WERE shown on TV the joy of a young couple moving into their new home after just beating the Stamp Duty deadline . |
| 28 | After progressively improving the style , comfort and riding qualities on all stock , the year 1905 saw the final Park design for dining cars . |
| 29 | Northampton finished fourth , after finally ending the Norwich jinx with a 3–1 home win in the last game of the season , which brought a visit by 800 members of Norwich Supporters Club . |
| 30 | I if I might say erm after further reviews the County Treasurer has advised that erm he does not need to impose a limit erm i it 's the last sentence in paragraph four . |