Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the volume of water required for lockage of the existing traffic was 1,000,000 cubic feet only , it is obvious that it would have been more effective in the saving of water to reduce leakage rather than to concentrate on reducing the passage of water through locks — and much cheaper . |
| 2 | But common sense may have been more important than learning in perceiving the vulnerability of most castles to — battering-rams and catapults ; for even in 1100 they were , as a rule , primitive structures . |
| 3 | But rather than focussing on ending the bad relationship I would try to encourage the child to develop other friendships . ’ |
| 4 | All of the other theories to be discussed here can only describe what has happened ; they have no real conception of what the motive force of power or change is in society over time other than to rely on describing the eclectic , indeterminate behaviour of subjective and free individuals . |
| 5 | Rather than start by discussing the finer points of the various varieties ( covered in an earlier article ) , let's approach the subject literally : a good starting point is the size of Koi to aim for . |
| 6 | It has left society with the obligation to give much more serious thought to adjusting the street environment rather than concentrating on adjusting the behaviour of the user . |
| 7 | In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland . |
| 8 | Hundreds of television employees said they would strike if prevented from reporting the demonstration . |
| 9 | Hundreds of television employees said they would strike if prevented from reporting the demonstration . |
| 10 | Control if exercised by making the individual user responsible , by name , for the materials issued , even to the point of making a personal issue against a signature . |
| 11 | Unless removed by washing the salts become deposited during drying before sieving , cementing adjacent particles together , to produce misleading analyses . |
| 12 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 13 | While refraining from citing the brutality of warring factions in Somalia , the document called on the NAM " to play a leadership role in … response to the ongoing tragedy " and to take immediate measures " for the purpose of co-ordinating emergency humanitarian assistance for Somalia " . |
| 14 | Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ? |
| 15 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 16 | She wondered whether to escape by pulling the material away , but did not want to tear her best dress . |
| 17 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 18 | Strikes which damage the innocent are as justified in achieving the stated aim as burning heretics . |
| 19 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 20 | Mary Poppins , manageress of the Cramlington Fund , sold an index future , and purchased the basket of shares in the index costing £60 000 in exactly the same proportions as used in computing the index . |
| 21 | Every manager has a responsibility towards the organisation as a whole , and must define the activities of his own unit so as to contribute towards achieving the organisation 's objectives . |
| 22 | Every manager has a responsibility towards the organisation as a whole , and must define the activities of his own unit so as to contribute towards achieving the organisation 's objectives . |
| 23 | When asked about supplying the local community rather than using the supermarket infrastructure . |
| 24 | The Chancellor provided no clue on whether any policy change was in prospect during his address , but when asked about joining the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS on the BBC 's Newsnight programme he said : ‘ I have no new announcement to make about that , neither today nor indeed at the Mansion House ’ — referring to his annual speech on monetary policy and City issues at a banquet there next Thursday night . |
| 25 | Later in July seven men were arrested as suspects in planning the attack , while its alleged organiser , N. Varathan ( 32 ) , was reported in early August to have committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule to evade arrest . |
| 26 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 27 | To be admissible as an aid to construction , as opposed to determining the mischief , it is submitted that a statement must be a clear expression of the legislative intention in adopting the structure or language of the provision which falls to be construed or interpreted . |
| 28 | As opposed to staining the wood and then varnishing it with |
| 29 | He justifies this implicit raising of the required standard partly in order to encourage pupils to continue caring about geography lessons ( as opposed to reading the newspapers ) and partly because it would be unfair to give pupils taking geography a better chance of reaching university than pupils taking , say , physics under the war-time difficulties caused by shortage of laboratories and physics teachers . |
| 30 | for additional land as opposed to recycling the existing land . |