Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 2 | Well he wanted to know who the Traidcraft person |
| 3 | ‘ By now , both the Americans and the Russians will be trying to discover who the Lucy Ghosts are , ’ Billie took over . |
| 4 | The real problem is that the Government refuses to accept what the Maastricht Treaty is about . |
| 5 | I just wanted to know what the ticket arrangements are for the Liverpool game at Anfield later in September . |
| 6 | She wanted to hear interviews with other survivors and to know what the emergency services had to say — the fire fighters who rushed to the scene , the doctors who performed the operations . |
| 7 | She wanted to know what the UK Vehicle Division was doing to correct its appalling track record of recent years , particularly when compared with its Continental plants . |
| 8 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 9 | We 've made it clear what we would do with the money , I still would like to know what the labour group plan to do with it ? |
| 10 | I do not pretend to know what the ethics committee would say about that . |
| 11 | it will be interesting to know what the Police Band costs , which the ratepayers never hear , and what did the rodeo , performed by the Mounted Section , cost the long-suffering ratepayers ? |
| 12 | And I would want to know what the health effects were on them of the conditions in which they had to work . |
| 13 | Call pick up , as opposed to group pick up , call pick up , should be on there , is star 3 and the extension number , and as you can imagine , you have to know what the extension number is before you actually access the facility . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 15 | As well as the obvious , known tastes of food and drink , stick your tongue out to discover what the air tastes like . |
| 16 | With some pottery , chemical analysis can also be used to discover what the pottery vessel may have once contained or have been used for . |
| 17 | His sojourn in the car was simply to assure himself the messenger boy responded to the given description and had not been followed . |
| 18 | ‘ You want to sell me the wig back ? |
| 19 | The commercial function had previously been subordinate to operations , and according to a manager involved , its philosophy was ‘ to sell what the operating departments produced ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Browning said : ‘ I shall now look for a lawyer to explore what the Ariadne Galleries are prepared to offer me . ’ |
| 21 | Labour 's Scottish executive attempted to dampen down the controversy with a report which imposed new machinery , such as standing orders , to tackle what the executive chairwoman , Anne McGuire , described as old-fashioned practices . |
| 22 | YOU have to wonder what the Bush administration was looking for when it set out , in early 1989 , to find a new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts . |
| 23 | Scott 's first letter had been an appalling error , and it would seem sufficient reason why Donaldson should suggest reversing the decision to award him the Gold Medal , but Scott , when drafting his Recollections in later years , looked for further motives behind Donaldson 's action as he could not ‘ reconcile it with the character and generosity which Donaldson has usually evinced ’ . |
| 24 | Whoever he was , and he had still not seen fit to explain that little detail , he was making no effort to afford her the awestruck courtesy to which she was accustomed . |
| 25 | The Arizona legislature has just opened a special session to hear what the racetrack owners want . |
| 26 | So there will be a slight improvement on that position but erm I do feel that we have to continue to do them the costume plays we ca n't just say oh we do n't make a profit on it , we ca n't do it , I think that would be a very shortsighted erm philosophy . |
| 27 | ‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’ |
| 28 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 29 | A couple who were kidnapped and pushed off a cliff in a burning car have asked a court to give them the pick-up truck in which they were abducted . |
| 30 | A GANG of five teenagers stole a 20-year-old woman 's cash card and then tortured her to give them the pin number . |