Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year 's is the biggest-ever and we 're asking everyone who cares about wildlife to sponsor the cyclists or make a donation . ’ |
| 2 | The petition can be signed by the parliamentary agent himself , and this is of value because last-minute instructions are frequently received , and I have known cases where the client has not even seen the petition until after it was deposited , although he has of course cleared the content by telephone . |
| 3 | In industry , scientific research effort is often directed at increasing profit rather than improving the quality of life ( although science has of course improved the quality of people 's lives in many ways ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The real solution lies in cooperation to eliminate the causes of illegal migration , in easing the situation of countries from where migrants flow through economic assistance , training and other means , ’ Mr Boross said . |
| 5 | ‘ The real solution lies in cooperation to eliminate the causes of illegal migration , in easing the situation of countries from where migrants flow through economic assistance , training and other means , ’ Boross said . |
| 6 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer will expect to be a member of the Cabinet Committee considering important legislation in any field , including criminal justice , although if at a particular meeting the main Treasury interest lies in resource costs the Chief Secretary to the Treasury might go in his place . |
| 7 | ‘ Many Asian churches have been willing to encourage artistic expression and the flowering of the arts has in turn enriched the faith and life of ordinary Christians . ’ |
| 8 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the availability of loans , and may well repeat the claim made in a letter by his predecessor : ’ there is no evidence that a loan scheme has in practice had the effect of reducing participation by lower socio-economic groups . ’ |
| 9 | The deployment of UN troops in Serb-held territories in Croatia has in practice helped the Serbs to consolidate their control there . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State has in mind using the Records of Achievement as the repository of pupil achievements in the tests and assessments at age 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 — at least so far as the sole mandatory requirements are concerned . |
| 11 | Track one is a growling , clapping disco song with a peace message , but far better to my ears are ‘ Klangers ’ , a similar groove which sounds like it has in fact got The Klangers on it although it 's probably just a synth , and ‘ The Horns Of Jerricurl ’ ( geddit ? ) which unfolds the depths of their groove and lays bare their sense of humour . |
| 12 | Since a 25% devaluation in 1982 , Sweden 's central bank has in fact kept the krona stable against a mainly trade-weighted basket of 15 currencies , including seven non-ERM ones . |
| 13 | This has in effect reduced the amount of space devoted to Western art to 25% of what it was before . |
| 14 | Though not strictly a member of the cabinet , Mr Ozawa has given the prime minister considerable support and has in effect run the government 's day-to-day business . |
| 15 | Thus the ability to manipulate the different elements at will has in effect altered the task . |
| 16 | To determine whether the 174-bp RN46/RN50 PCR amplification product corresponds to cDNA lacking the IR10–1 exon , we cloned this PCR fragment in M13mp18 and determined the DNA sequence of six clones ; the IR10–1 exon was precisely deleted from each , but otherwise agreed with the nucleotide sequence of DN10 ( data not shown ) . |
| 17 | The author rejoiced that ‘ the improvement in public taste … during the last twenty-five years has at length reached the meeting-houses of Nonconformity ’ . |
| 18 | But it also varies , as we shall see in the case studies in later chapters , according to the resources that the government has at hand to defuse the political consequences of disruption . |
| 19 | John Roberts ’ collection and the two ‘ CARLISLE ’ signs of course formed the centrepiece , but all sorts of other items came to light . |
| 20 | So the changed phosphorylation of the synaptic membrane , which probably results in calcium entering the cell , must act as some sort of a signal to the DNA in the nucleus . |
| 21 | When payment is made the dealer gets his commission , normally splitting it with his mentor and possibly an official in the defence ministry who refuses to rubber stamp the deal without an ‘ incentive ’ . |
| 22 | Shearer is in to stay , but while Taylor deliberates just who should be his partner up front Campbell plans to gate crash the party . |
| 23 | He is probably the best example of a belief often expressed about the presidency — that the man holding the office grows in stature to fit the highest position in the nation . |
| 24 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 25 | ‘ There is n't a budget for this , ’ says JWT 's joint managing director William Eccleshare , but a quick tally of advertising costs per paper shows the campaign could have cost up to £450,000 . |
| 26 | Kriss now leads by example promoting the Duke of Edinburgh awards . |
| 27 | Credit marketing revolves around pre-screening to enable the lender to make a pre-approved credit offer , eg mailing the offer of a $5000 Visa card limit to vetted names . |
| 28 | Nowadays it means that Mr Morris chairs the House when Chancellor Norman Lamont delivers his budget … and he also presides when the House goes into committee to discuss the detailed budget legislation . |
| 29 | Nowadays it means that Mr Morris chairs the House when Chancellor Norman Lamont delivers his budget … and he also presides when the House goes into committee to discuss the detailed budget legislation . |
| 30 | The document calls for legislation to restrict the use of nitrate fertilizers , pesticides and industrial solvents in areas " mainly agricultural districts " where their overuse poses threat to the quality of the groundwater . |