Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People do not sit down to write it , but those who need to communicate with people in the other parts of the country love to speak it . |
| 2 | An understanding of the subject will help the reader to communicate with people in the business community as well as with accountants and enable him or her to participate more effectively in financial decision-making . |
| 3 | Visits by National Insurance inspectors are to increase by 30% over the next year , according to the Contributions Agency 's new Business Plan . |
| 4 | The M40 currently carries about 45,000 , but that 's due to increase by 30% in the next 10 years , so councillors are pressing for the M40 to be included . |
| 5 | Gas demand is likely to increase by 25% over the remainder of the century with saturation being achieved in domestic markets and increased penetration occurring in industrial and commercial markets . |
| 6 | Frankland 's answer was to use surface attraction rather than chemical affinity as the agent of purification ; in particular , to purify by means of the soil , in irrigation . |
| 7 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 8 | Young people hoping to work in the bereavement business were being invited to talk to staff at the North Eastern Co-op , in Benwell , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 9 | They 'll be able to fish for carp in the estate lake ; view the famous hall with its unique flying staircase … so-called because it has no visible means of support or wander throught the wood that the Lonsdales planted in memory of their son . |
| 10 | Newton Aycliffe police wanted to hear from people throughout the region after finding goods during police raids on a Newton Aycliffe house and a Darlington business . |
| 11 | Last week for instance , we had somebody out on the motorway interviewing the site workers , but we also want to hear from people in the local communities , around Banbury , around Bicester , and found out what they feel about the motorway , because it 's going to have an enormous impact on the area . |
| 12 | The songs are carefully arranged , played with the anonymous perfection we 've come to expect from people like the Floyd , and last about a quarter of an hour . |
| 13 | In the smaller places , there fore , they generally had to deal with people with the same background as themselves ; they knew their customers and their family and friends . |
| 14 | It 's got nothing to do with people outside the church . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's to do with people in the two paramilitary organisations fleecing small and medium sized businessmen to line their own pockets and buy good cars and have holidays . ’ |
| 16 | In most cases , the Americans have the advantage of ready access to water , which is collected from rivers , lakes and reservoirs and pumped through pipes to emerge from cannon on the slopes . |
| 17 | Regardless of this , AIB Bank plc management is persisting , as it tries to wrest from staff in the UK the salary increases and allowances to which they are entitled . |
| 18 | When you join Dateline not every date is going to be your ‘ ideal person ’ but you will find things to enjoy in 90% of the people you meet — and if you meet ‘ that special person ’ it 's the most wonderful bonus ! ’ |
| 19 | Premack 's plastic tokens which Sarah , his only real success , was required to arrange in series on the magnetised slate , were designed to discover the extent to which she could make judgements about the qualities of objects ; for example , ‘ the apple is red and round ’ . |
| 20 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |
| 21 | Pan-European sales of research biochemicals had reached an estimated $536.4m by the end of 1990 with over a third of sales made in Germany , where the market is forecast to climb to $319m by the close of 1996 . |
| 22 | Profits , above £100million in 1987/88 , are likely to fall to £45million in the year to next April . |
| 23 | Profits fell from £103million in 1987/88 to £78million last year and are expected to fall to £45million in the current 12 months . |
| 24 | One rumour is that they are asking Japan to kick in 20% of the cost of fighting the war . |
| 25 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 26 | These persons are frequently referred to as " regular casuals " , although the term is also sometimes used to refer to people in the second category . |
| 27 | Consequently , Goldman Sachs expects city banks ' operating profits to decline by 10% in the fiscal year to March 1994 . |
| 28 | This is quite easy to demonstrate by means of the Yes / No -test : |
| 29 | To get within 1pc of the nucleus from a distance of 1kpc , an average parcel of gas must have reduced its angular momentum by a factor of at least 10 3 . |
| 30 | Promotion or bolt-on levy for beef and lamb is to be frozen although the pig promotion levy is expected to double to 80p before the end of 1996 . |