Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 2 | She hopes ( ‘ in a money sense ’ ) that he will ‘ get the Civil Service post : Nice to have a little money to spare above the necessaries of life . ’ |
| 3 | Such a duty of confidence is subject to , and overridden by , the duty of any party to that contract to comply with the law of the land . |
| 4 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 5 | The women there will tell you how all those jobs are defined by low pay in many cases , by low status , by very little opportunity to move into the high grades . |
| 6 | Younger workers living in company dormitories have little opportunity to escape from the affairs of their firm and from an early age their leisure time is dominated by work colleagues . |
| 7 | The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework . |
| 8 | Mr Takeshita wants that election to come after the Paris economic summit in mid-July , hoping that the voters will be impressed with his statesmanlike performance in dealing with the Latin debt crisis . |
| 9 | Leave five minutes before each interview to look at the candidate 's application form/letter , and any particular questions noted down while first reading it . |
| 10 | Some of these sound waves reach the ears of the listener and travel down each earhole to press on the stretched membrane of the eardrum . |
| 11 | If the concentration of production and distribution units becomes a major force in the transition to the SEM , there will be an inevitable tendency for that concentration to occur in the core regions which will probably not only contain relevant headquarters and production units , but will also guarantee proximity to markets and immediate access to a range of supporting service functions . |
| 12 | I cut a path through the rushes which allows enough space for two rods , and room each side to wade to the water 's edge . |
| 13 | He noticed that he was almost out of them and fumbled in his jacket pocket for some change to feed into the cigarette machine . |
| 14 | We do not wish to be the first case of this kind to go before the Special Commissioners . |
| 15 | People have , have got to have this opportunity to listen to the good news erm |
| 16 | I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon ( Mr Amess ) on taking this opportunity to raise in the House the granting of trust status to the Basildon and Thurrock hospitals and on providing the House with the opportunity to mark the granting of trust status . |
| 17 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 18 | It is , for the reasons I have given , not sufficient in this case to point to the medical cause of death alone when considering the question ‘ how . ’ |
| 19 | It is clearly for the mother in this case to establish to the court that the interests of the children lie in their remaining in England , and that their future can appropriately be determined here so that it would be proper to allow those matters to prevail over the purpose and philosophy of the Convention . |
| 20 | It is clearly for the mother in this case to establish to the court that the interests of the children lie in their remaining in England , and that their future can appropriately be determined here so that it would be proper to allow those matters to prevail over the purpose and philosophy of the Convention . |
| 21 | Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period , as will be seen in the next chapter . |
| 22 | Thus they 've stopped and started and stopped again while others have used this route to slip inside the Top 40 net . |
| 23 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 24 | Adjusting this income to allow for the rise in prices , it seems that the real income fell by more than one-third . |
| 25 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 26 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 27 | Penny went shopping with Rowan , into one of those very expensive boutiques shops , yeah , and between them they bought this dress , and when they got it home , Rowan 's mother would n't let her have it because it was too revealing and so Penny was stuck with it and then her mother would n't let her have it either , but the shop would n't refund , it would only give them credit so she 's got all this money to spend in the shop . |
| 28 | Lord Gardiner regarded him as being well qualified by this experience to advise on the renewal of another , even more antique , part of the national heritage : the hallowed courts of justice . |
| 29 | this experience to get on the course |
| 30 | These comprised a pork pie and some salami to stave off the munchies while I drove , a toothbrush and some toothpaste , and then a bottle each of tequila , lime juice and Asti Spumante for which I had plans . |