Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MTM 's bankers have agreed to continue to provide funds for the deeply troubled chemicals group until the end of the month . |
| 2 | To obtain summarising estimates of the mutual effects of age and pseudomelanosis coli , and sex and pseudomelanosis coli , logistic regression analysis was applied . |
| 3 | Even so , it does not seem to be entirely appropriate that , as I have heard privately reported , ministers of the crown now ask to be invited to dinner parties with wealthy Arable in order to try to secure contributions to the Conservative cause . |
| 4 | And to try to create jobs for the women so that even if their men are out of work they can provide at least some income . |
| 5 | Staff working on a project to integrate geochemical data into a series of world geochemical maps have applied various techniques to establish a common format and to adjust sampling densities from the various regions to a common level . |
| 6 | At one time pottoks were sold to Britain , and put to work pulling wagons in the pits ; today , they are most likely to be used , if at all , for carrying tourists on safe , low-slung pony rides . |
| 7 | It is also worth asking the supplier to provide fixing screws for the drive . |
| 8 | This prompted Gorbachev on May 27 to make a televised address to the country to try to calm fears about the market reform plan and to appeal for support . |
| 9 | It had been intended to provide turning facilities at the Robin Hood , but no suitable place could be found . |
| 10 | A general strike was called on Oct. 8 in protest at a decision of the French government 's Bureau of Ecological Studies ( BRGM ) to grant mining rights to the South African mining company Gencor . |
| 11 | the teachers ' failure adequately to communicate teaching objectives to the pupils ; |
| 12 | It is not uncommon to find reporting clauses in the form ‘ It occurred to her … . ’ , |
| 13 | George had wisely slipped into a pattern of complete obedience and moved silently around the room to establish aiming points with the torch on the pictures Maxim indicated . |
| 14 | ‘ The Jockey Club wants to charge us more than it costs us to obtain riding plans at the moment , ’ said Gavin Bargate , the PA 's Racing Service Editor . |
| 15 | The need to try to understand situations from the child 's point of view is also much better appreciated , as are the difficulties involved in children functioning in disembedded ways . |
| 16 | Organisational decisions are made by the hospital administrators ( who ought to try treating patients without the proper facilities ) against a background of NHS politics and my vision is of a lucrative private practice and regular weekends off with my family ’ . |
| 17 | There we are working hard to boost the inspection powers of the IAEA to try to address problems of the kind that were thrown up in Iraq . |
| 18 | The product of collusion between politicians and mass media controllers to exclude threatening issues from the scope of effective electoral competition has been termed the ‘ mobilization of bias ’ ( Schattschneider , 1960 ) . |
| 19 | Jovellanos regarded rent control as useless and an evil in itself ; he considered land as a commodity that must find its natural price in the open market and held that it was ‘ vanity ’ to try to protect peasants from the effects of economic laws . |
| 20 | At the same time it also has to adjust to market leaders in the private and voluntary sectors and to public interest groups . |
| 21 | It is not good practice to use extra filter capacity to increase stocking levels in the main tank . |
| 22 | On May 18th Lord Owen met the Croat and Muslim leaders in Medjugorje , where the devout used to come to watch appearances of the Virgin Mary . |
| 23 | Durkheim was especially concerned to try to measure changes in the basis of social solidarity . |
| 24 | We believe that there are nearly 100,000 empty flats over shops , and we have therefore embarked on a three-year campaign to try to change attitudes in the commercial sector . |
| 25 | I 'd have to try to influence things through the root cause of it all : Old Saul himself . |
| 26 | This has been pounced on by Germany , France and by the Commission — not , as the British would wish , further to liberalise trade within the Community , but , for instance , to try to abolish controls on the movement of immigrants . |
| 27 | The Ptolemies , being the neighbours of the Carthaginians who were the allies of the Romans , were the first Hellenistic kings to try to make friends with the unexpected new power . |
| 28 | The Aborigines had suffered at the hands of the sealers — many of the women were kidnapped and put to work plucking birds for the feather trade — but they retained their custom of a spontaneous welcome for anyone who put into port on the island . |
| 29 | What it did was to compensate working citizens for the loss of wages or earnings they would otherwise have suffered . |
| 30 | PLANS by the European Commission to include vining peas within the EC arable aid scheme are being reviewed . |