Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 2 | Legitimate requests A request based on the manager 's authority and right to know as prescribed by the firm 's regulations . |
| 3 | The pace of actuarial involvement in general insurance continues to increase as shown by the demand for a growing number of actuaries to specialise in this area . |
| 4 | SPECIAL : Regiments of Archers are permitted to skirmish as described in the rules for skirmishing in the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 5 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 6 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 7 | He died last week when his parachute failed to open while filming for the BBC series 999 near Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 8 | Padilla 's Stabat mater ( track 11 ) setting , and Victoria 's sublime Alma redemptoris mater ( track 12 ) receive the same attention to detail as displayed in the masses ; ensemble and intonation once again excellent . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Thompson , secretary of Darlington Milk Buyers Company Ltd , who supply 33 dairymen in the town , said they had been only too happy to help when approached by the borough council . |
| 10 | From here it 's a doddle to sort out train times and connections — it 's probably cheaper than trying to ring up and get through to BR 's phone lines and definitely easier to use than wading through the paper version . |
| 11 | The recommended muster-signal was a wooden rattle operated by some deserving unemployed person with nothing better to do than run around the town making an incredible racket , as opposed to marching on mansions with a view to burning them down . |
| 12 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 13 | The converse of barriers to entry are barriers to exit : it may cost firms more to quit than to stay in the market . |
| 14 | The rules do permit the RTC to give away worthless properties to housing groups to use as shelters for the homeless . |
| 15 | One of several convincing ‘ flats ’ produced to use as back-drops during the filming . |
| 16 | In making up their minds what to do when faced with the expected no-confidence motion from Labour therefore , the Liberals were put in a most unenviable position . |
| 17 | The Scottish star had only agreed to run if selected for the 1,500m but a communication breakdown meant she was chosen for 3,000m instead . |
| 18 | If the local authority decides to grant consent , the Secretary of State has twenty-eight days to consider whether to call in the case and decide for himself . |
| 19 | Following further approaches from my hon. Friend , a direction was issued to South Glamorgan county council on 11 December requiring it not to approve the proposal until the Secretary of State had had more time to consider whether to call in the matter for his own determination . |
| 20 | You will want to consider whether to stick to the assumptions , and if so , how far to make use of the costings in public . ’ |
| 21 | This blind adherence to ancient beliefs dating from times when all nature was a mystery and man 's efforts to penetrate the enigma of his beginnings quite beyond his mental capacity , is even more difficult to understand when viewed in the light of his advances along all other frontiers of knowledge . |
| 22 | C There will be certain knowledge and skills that you will need to acquire while working in the surgical ward . |
| 23 | Once the child starts to relax while seated on the potty the parent can gradually reduce the amount of attention and start to leave the room for short periods . |
| 24 | Strathaven-based Yuill and Dodds , which was due to have its licence suspended for seven days from midnight on Sunday , has been given 49 days ' grace to decide whether to appeal against the decision . |
| 25 | It is now the responsibility of the person working on the DC to decide whether to continue with the DC or to abort it . |
| 26 | While it remains ( in theory at least ) the prerogative of each agency to decide whether to co-operate with the overall plan , they are at least expected to notify the key worker if they intend to deviate from what has been agreed . |
| 27 | In the draft party statutes , one rule specifically states that once the Lithuanian party has declared itself independent , members will have until the 28th Soviet Party Congress next October to decide whether to stay with the Lithuanian party , or leave it and join the Soviet party . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , receiving these manuals would give bureaux a chance to assess outside publications , to evaluate their use and to decide whether to subscribe to the updates independently . |
| 29 | Both were missing from the side which won 4-2 at Colchester United on Friday evening and the Robins ' boss has to decide whether to stick with the makeshift back four which performed so well at Layer Road . |
| 30 | They understood faith to be an assent of the mind as agreeable to reason as assenting to the existence of objects on a table . |