Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 2 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 3 | Indeed , support for Salman Rushdie and all that his situation stands for has from the start been more vociferous and active abroad than in his own country , something he feels understandably bitter about . |
| 4 | Who cares about ageing in the sun ? |
| 5 | The vehicle starts after cranking on the starter , and runs perfectly until I switch off , and then the whole process has to be repeated . |
| 6 | The greater the complexity of systems , the more danger of something going wrong , and the less chance individual will has of operating on the systems for good . |
| 7 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 8 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 9 | ‘ It looks like pimping in the West End is a lucrative business . |
| 10 | Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) looks like running until the 2020s . |
| 11 | The new Barlow era in the Transvaal looks like coinciding with the official end of Clive Rice 's Transvaal career . |
| 12 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 13 | The most promising argument in favour of W. having an exclusive right to consent to treatment and thus , by refusing consent , to attract the protection of the law on trespass to the person , lies in concentrating upon the words ‘ as effective as it would be if he were of full age . ’ |
| 14 | So it seemed plausible that these elliptical fields are stimulated best by bars orientated parallel to their long axis , and that the lack of obliquely oriented cells explained the difficulty the octopus has in distinguishing between the two diagonals . |
| 15 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 16 | The advantage of heading towards the shore has to weighed against the possible disadvantage of lighter winds closer to shore because of the slowing effect of the land . |
| 17 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 18 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 19 | This chapter starts by looking at the issue of control and discipline , and the related skills of questioning and reflection . |
| 20 | The strategy thus usually starts by aiming for the ideal result but having two other results in mind . |
| 21 | He starts by sitting on the side of the plinth , and the physiotherapist may use mobilizing techniques to reduce any spasticity in the patient 's trunk or arm . |
| 22 | The Law Society has submitted its response to the Law Commission 's Consultation Paper on Fiduciary Duties and Regulatory rules , and concludes by disagreeing with the Commission 's preliminary proposals to overcome current difficulties which the Commission have been examining . |
| 23 | It analyses the problem of marketing to multi-individual buying structures , and concludes by looking at the applications of industrial purchase behaviour models . |
| 24 | This allows for repricing of the budget for November , nineteen ninety-two , to November nineteen ninety-three , and that sum is shown there as some fifty- seven thousand pounds . |
| 25 | No chipping was observed , and it would seem that damage mainly occurs through splitting of the crowns which leads to their disintegration and loss from the sample . |
| 26 | The latter form handles for winding in the line and the handles can be at opposite ends , or have one central to act as a pivot , rotating in the free hand . |
| 27 | Editor , — I agree with J D Swales 's contention that the Tomlinson report will damage postgraduate education if it results in weakening of the vital links between the special health authority hospitals and teaching in the postgraduate research institutes . |
| 28 | Retaining the anal mucosa sometimes results in bleeding from the involved mucosa but discrimination may be improved by avoiding mucosectomy . |
| 29 | The apparent lack of much volcanic activity over much of Mercurian history probably results from cooling of the outer mantle , because a planet with a large surface area to mass ratio should cool rather rapidly to fairly low temperatures . |
| 30 | Consumer public relations depends on using to the full this part of the media and it is generally accepted that any consultant working in this field will have contacts within the appropriate media . |