Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operating statement for the year shows a deficit of NZ$5.149bn on revenues ( mostly tax ) of NZ$27.3bn ( roughly , NZ$3 = £1 ) . |
| 2 | Creating a budget for the firm provides an exceptional opportunity for partners to review , in depth , all aspects of its operations . |
| 3 | A research approach which regards placement as incidental to the achievement of specified goals for the child puts a different perspective on the social work task and directs attention to a wider range of dimensions related to the child 's current experience , longer-term development and future life-chances . |
| 4 | THE first TV commercial for the Church shows an abstract blue background and has a soundtrack of classical music for 20 seconds . |
| 5 | The author draws the conversation to a close with the comment that Murray was still too young to realise that ‘ fighting under any circumstances is a dreadful business , and that the person who gives the cause for the fight does a very wicked thing , utterly hateful in the sight of God . |
| 6 | Just For The Night stocks a wide range of evening dresses in sizes 8 to 20 , from the simple to the very glamorous . |
| 7 | Once assembled , they are welcomed by the captain and the judge for the day gives a short address . |
| 8 | A pre-tax profit of nearly $42m for the quarter represents an improvement of almost $71m in what is traditionally a difficult winter quarter . |
| 9 | When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance . |
| 10 | especially if you 're using theta for the angle looks a bit like theta . |
| 11 | Patrick Edgeworth 's Boswell For The Defence has a plot of sorts — the barrister 's defence of Mary Broad , an escapee from the penal colony at Sydney Cove — but , in the end , the form defeats any narrative thrust . |
| 12 | As the lord lieutenant acts as the monarch 's personal representative in the county in question , whom the Queen selects for the post gives an interesting insight into the sort of people with whom the royal family identifies . |
| 13 | The interactional structure for the talker requires a sustaining of partner 's attention . |
| 14 | The Activity Book for the student contains a wealth of material which ensures that the maximum benefit will be gained from the video . |
| 15 | But one very rough guess by Paul Portney of Resources for the Future suggests a cumulative cost , in 1990 dollars , of perhaps $136 billion , roughly half of which will fall on the private sector and disproportionately on manufacturing . |
| 16 | CamHealth for the Environment features a number of facilities to help companies meet their obligations to the ‘ duty of care ’ and ‘ duty of aftercare ’ expressed and implied in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 . |
| 17 | For example , the Secretary of State for the Environment has a duty , not just a power , to compile lists of buildings of historic and architectural interest . |
| 18 | THE SECRETARY of State for the Environment has a duty — not just a power — laid on him by parliament , to compile lists of buildings which are of historic and architectural interest . |
| 19 | Put in blunt terms , many wives grumble that having a husband at home during the day means an extra meal to cook and inevitable disruption to their normal routine . |
| 20 | Suppose that the recording system maintained during the intervention shows a PB decrease and a CB increase . |
| 21 | Live music and comedy will be used as the audience enters an absurdist world of fish-throwing bicyclists , insensible domestic appliances and spellbinding aerial seriousness . |
| 22 | A simple statistical procedure known as the z-score assigns a score to the strength of association between the lemma and each of its collocates . |
| 23 | The idea that a presumption about the future has an effect upon that future is true and obviously commonplace in the social world ( see the self-fulfilling prophecy argument ) : how did it manifest itself in this particular case ? |
| 24 | Clearly a great deal of what religious traditions have to say about the Deity presupposes a personal God . |
| 25 | ‘ At the heart of many current discussions about the family lies a model with which present ways of life are contrasted . |
| 26 | Like other key notions in psychoanalysis , the sense of desire as a quest for an always impossible self-completion in or through the other has a long though oft en unrecognized history . |
| 27 | Of course , transmitting values through the curriculum assumes a degree of consensus , the existence of which is questionable in a pluralist society . |
| 28 | Radiating out from the speaker are a number of concentric circles distinguishing different zones of spatial proximity ; through the speaker passes a " tame line " , on which events prior to his present utt rance , and events prior to those , can be linearly arranged , and similarly events at points and spans in the future ; while the discourse to which the speaker contributes unfolds along this same time line . |
| 29 | The hole through the middle has a diameter of 16Å . |
| 30 | The bending and difficulty for the plant of getting sap through the restriction constitutes a threat , and the reaction to this is to try to make sure of the perpetuation of its own species by making seed — which , of course , has to be preceded by flower , and lots of it ! |