Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mean arterial pressure was the most important variable to adjust for between the two groups . |
| 2 | Start thinking today what you would really like to work towards over the next few months and even years . |
| 3 | William Jardine [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ honest and liberal beyond what we generally meet with , or even expect to meet with in the general intercourse of business transactions ’ . |
| 4 | They stayed mainly in the front room where there were rugs on a black-flagged floor that made it wonderfully cool to come into from the burning heat of the headland . |
| 5 | As the baby grows up , 24-hour rhythms begin to appear from about the second month of life onwards . |
| 6 | Guests — all Sikhs — began to appear from around the nearby houses and , after greeting Mrs Puri , quietly took their place cross-legged in ranks on the ground . |
| 7 | These are believed to come from beyond the Solar system , i.e. from interstellar space , the space between the stars . |
| 8 | In future , the danger of extreme-right policies is more likely to come from within the victorious mainstream conservative ranks than from outside . |
| 9 | I 'm grateful to Mr for raising this very fundamental question which I wished simply to comment on about the strategic aspects , I mean in Chichester we 've now had , as you all know , fire and flood and we have the pestilence with us ! |
| 10 | Goals via the through ball are always hard to come by at the highest level because of the quality of defenders and the sweeper system . |
| 11 | Cutting down on training , together with a natural apprehension , may make sleep a little harder to come by in the last few days , so staying up an extra hour may actually help . |
| 12 | They know that there will be subjects to choose between at the right moment ( or , sometimes , subjects for which their children will not be chosen ) and they associate the chances of doing well at , for instance , GCSE level in mathematics with being good at maths in the primary school . |
| 13 | The OTO , founded by freemasons , has much to answer for in the last eighty years . |
| 14 | Simultaneously with clinical observations such as these , academic psychologists were also beginning to incorporate a similar idea into their models of normal cognitive functioning and most contemporary theories of human information processing contain the notion of a mechanism that screens and selects the products of consciousness ; necessarily so , since organised thought would be impossible without some device that allows the mind to choose from among the many stimuli — both internal and external — with which it is constantly bombarded . |
| 15 | The Lanarkshire side are on a tidy run that has seen them lose only one of their last ten matches and they now have a strong squad to choose from after the massive injury problems of earlier in the season . |
| 16 | Huy found that , during much of what he had to listen to over the next few minutes , his only defence against the temptation to break the young man over his knee was to invoke the Horus within him . |
| 17 | Nevertheless we were very glad to have someone to talk to in the long reaches of the night when we were struggling to keep our eyes open . |
| 18 | But how do you know who to talk to in the first place ? |
| 19 | Reliability , simplicity , small size and light weight are the things to look for in the many models on the market today . |
| 20 | What I want you to look for in the next little passage that we look at is the way that the Sanhedrin present their case to Pontius Pilate . |
| 21 | However the first leg performance means InterSpray is third overall and still in with a fighting chance with everything to play for in the third and final legs . |
| 22 | The man paid the gaveller about a shilling a day : if she had a young child to look after at the same time she would have to manage as best she could . |
| 23 | The combination of these two aims could be managed , he felt , by giving every member of staff , including himself , a tutorial group to look after during the whole length of a pupil 's high school life . |
| 24 | Except for the need to make the prescribed disclosure ( see page 41 above ) , the retained marketing rules that non-UK offices have to comply with despite the foreign business carve-out apply only where the firm is carrying on investment business in the UK . |
| 25 | Of course now it 's warm enough to start getting out in the garden , what could be better than to take a selection of water toys to play with in the paddling pool outside ? |
| 26 | a full set of toys that people used to play with in the old days , and that sort of thing |
| 27 | Given all the millennia we have to play with in the stratigraphical record , we can expect our periodic catastrophes to do all the work we want of them . |
| 28 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 29 | So but nevertheless we will look at a little bit at those peripheral things , but we 're going to concentrate mainly on the design and on the delivery of a presentation so that 's what we want to what we want to look at over the next two days . |
| 30 | The patterns in the hewn rock were evocative , thin traceries of crystal , she imagined , beautiful whorls and arches , as fine to look at as the fine lines on a mother 's face . |