Example sentences of "[prep] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 2 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 3 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 4 | The meeting decided to contribute £10 towards to cost of the Durham County Best Kept Village competition . |
| 5 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 6 | You have not known , you could not know , what it was like to live under the Occupation . |
| 7 | The " living history " sessions offered on site by the Education Officers at many museums and historic buildings can provide particularly rewarding experiences for this age group , stimulating the imagination , through sight , touch , smells , and so on , and helping them to experience " what it was like to live in the past " . |
| 8 | Wearing old-fashioned clothes which help them to imagine what it was like to live in the past , they help with simple tasks like carrying in water or logs for the fire , or helping to measure out and mix the ingredients for oatcakes or Welsh cakes which are then cooked on a griddle on the open fire . |
| 9 | What is it like to live in the countryside ? |
| 10 | She wondered what it was like to wake in the morning and plan things for yourself . |
| 11 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 12 | He tried not to imagine what it would be like to drown in the Ankh . |
| 13 | It was not like compelling a party to make an irreversible election between two inconsistent remedies ; if an election were irreversible , there would be no point in allowing conspiracy counts not proceeded with to lie on the file , as was commonly done . |
| 14 | Always check the area you are sailing into to allow for the time when you will be facing battlements but when you crouch in the middle of the boat , do keep an eye on the boom or you 'll end up with a nasty bump on the head . |
| 15 | Such being the principal work which the Resident is called upon to perform under the system of Indirect Rule , it will be seen that he can receive little help from outside sources … |
| 16 | Where 's Snoopy getting the money from to go to the Tiger 's Head tonight ? |
| 17 | Fox was the chairman of the back bench 1922 Committee and could always be relied upon to come to the aid of the Party , especially midway through an election . |
| 18 | He and his heroic companions displayed , in one day , more courage than most were called upon to exhibit in the whole of their lives . |
| 19 | In addition , NCp7 was not found to bind very efficiently to DNA ends and the ability of IN to function in the presence of NCp7 at ratios of NCp7:DNA similar to those expected in vivo indicates that NCp7 does not bind to the terminal six residues ( 36 ) . |
| 20 | After recording that the specific purposes for which leave was granted were to quash the section 2 notice dated 24 June 1991 , and to require the applicant to be cautioned in accordance with paragraph 16.5 of Code C before being called upon to comply with the requirements of a section 2 notice , the court began by noting that these two grounds rested upon substantially the same basis ; namely that if the notice could lawfully be served after the person under investigation had been charged his constitutional right of silence would be lost , at any rate if a caution were not administered . |
| 21 | If this is the case , it implies that some at least of the feedback systems maintaining human wellbeing may be in difficulties simply because they are being called upon to function near the limits of their capacity . |
| 22 | Cathery was called upon to negotiate with the employers to settle a Wage dispute at Leith . |
| 23 | 3 ‘ It must also prepare young people for the work they will be called upon to do in the society which exists in Tanzania — a rural society where improvement will depend largely upon the efforts of the people in Agriculture and village development . ’ |
| 24 | The Commissioner is sometimes called upon to assist in the enforcement of the law concerning industrial action ballots . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure I will have the support of Mr McWhirter in any representations I may feel called upon to make to the Board , ’ said the headmaster . |
| 26 | Finally , in view of the crucial part which the further education sector plays in the educational and economic well-being of Wales , not least in the way in which it caters for the indigenous population , it is regrettable that too big a gap still exists between it and the secondary school sector and too few Welshmen and women , particularly perhaps among those who are Welsh speaking , recognize its many achievements in the past and the vital contribution which it will be called upon to make in the future . |
| 27 | Jim Harwood 's boss banned his staff from leaving the premises , except to go to the bank . |
| 28 | ‘ Is it meaner than a place so foul that you ca n't bear to touch your own skin except to brush off the things crawling over you ? ’ |
| 29 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |