Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 2 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 3 | Mr Gairns noted that proprieties were properly observed : ‘ a separate entrance to this department direct from the Stratford Road enables the girls to enter after and leave before the male employees . |
| 4 | It is widely believed both within TDC and by its critics that the relatively high pay levels established by the reforming directors of the 1950s and 1960s led to applications by , and the recruitment of , men who did not know of or subscribe to the old codes . |
| 5 | The number of enquiries which a bureau receives can not be a measure of the value of or need for the service . |
| 6 | The purpose of the semantic net is to give people an overview of or handle on the content of the text . |
| 7 | The signing and completion of this Agreement by the Vendor will not violate any provision of or result in the acceleration of any obligation under or the termination of any such Contract . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind the fact that the report laid out only minimum welfare standards , will the Government take note of and act on the recommendations of the minority report issued at the same time ? |
| 9 | In contrast to the existing system , the new solution had to be fully flexible , and able to meet the future demands of and grow with the company . |
| 10 | It is essential that the parents of a severely visually handicapped child know of and agree to the approach to be followed by the school in relation to the pupil 's independent mobility , and it will be very helpful if they have seen the school environment and know what kind of tasks it will impose on the daily life of their child . |
| 11 | The poems are full of imagery of and praise for the Bible : |
| 12 | ‘ In this way everyone can contribute towards and share in the future of Wearside , ’ says Wright . |
| 13 | At the same time as the US sought to stiffen French resolve , at least to continue the war , it had to persuade France in effect to let go because , at the very least , it had recognized that the forces of what was nominally ‘ the French Union ’ in Indo-China in reality needed men : and these men would have to be found for and fight in the National Army of Vietnam . |
| 14 | Every teacher , from the reception class upwards to the age of 16 , needs to have a confident grasp of what the whole process of schooling and education can provide for and require from the pupil . |
| 15 | it is now well cared for and open to the public |
| 16 | Good music resembles good speech : a sentence needs to work towards a main point and then decline before beginning again , while in a whole speech we have to prepare for and build towards the main point of the argument . |
| 17 | LAW Know about and comply with the law |
| 18 | Know about and comply with the law |
| 19 | Contests over children 's entrance into and exit from the care of the state are moving from administrative to judicial control . |
| 20 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 21 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 22 | Link the information systems plan to the corporate plan : provide an ‘ optimal project mix ’ which will be consistent with and link to the corporate plan , ideally over the same time period . |
| 23 | Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) . |
| 24 | However , the tilting process and inundation that accompanied it were so gradual that most existing forms of wildlife had ample time to escape from or adapt to the changes . |
| 25 | Peggy Mitchell , seated at the rear of the Variety Tent , sighed in sympathy as , one after another , the right card failed to appear from or disappear into the deck . |
| 26 | ‘ The line of authority is the route followed — via every link in the chain — by all communications which start from or go to the ultimate authority . |
| 27 | For the question whether a property is present here can never be different from or lie beyond the question whether we have the best possible evidence that it is present . |
| 28 | All DMS candidates must have had work experience of a kind which will enable them to benefit from and contribute to the course . |
| 29 | During the first three years of life the young child will venture out from and return to the secure base of a parent 's presence when conducting expeditions into unfamiliar territory . |
| 30 | The standard input and output for the Z88 initially come from and go to the keyboard and the screen . |