Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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1 | I can answer that very briefly Mr Chairman er yes , there will be the capability to carry stand off weapons the conventionally armed stand off missile for example will have a good stand off range . |
2 | — Since John Constable left to brew beer in Butterknowle the Chain locker in North Shields opposite the ferry landing has vanished from the Good Pub Guide . |
3 | It was left to her brothers to pass comment at lunch the following day . |
4 | The emperor and empress had foreseen and tried to forestall resentment on Louis the German 's part at the grant to Charles . |
5 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
6 | To add insult to injury the hypnotist claimed Kylie had failed to pay the consultation bill . |
7 | To add insult to injury the business of selecting students and allocating places was computerised in 1973 , and so it remains today . |
8 | To add insult to injury the roof leaked . |
9 | Anfield 's Welsh wizard also took time to pay tribute to Dalglish the player . |
10 | To remove nut from shank the shank-to-nut state must be progressively changed from a three-zone state , through two , down to one , where the single state has two zeros and one non-zero ( this space is the mirror of the head space ) . |
11 | If reform of this kind were to take place in England the new Crown Prosecution Service should provide a further safeguard against abuse . |
12 | For all the hard work on his and Sir David 's part , however , this proved too harsh a deadline ; but then with Mr George 's conference ending yet again in indecision , his lordship set his sights on a further great conference scheduled to take place in Switzerland the following year . |
13 | In the years between 300 and 550 there was much work of codification and it began to take shape under Theodosius the Great in the Western Empire in 438 . |
14 | However given the extent of monopoly ( and oligopoly ) in the NHS , the power of professional groups to win concessions , and the political need to guarantee equality of access the government has been forced to set narrow rules within which competition is allowed . |