Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our next plan is to go for endowment to stop the roller coaster ride we 've gone on with the city ’ . |
| 2 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 3 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 4 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 5 | OVERLEAF : Marc Cory 's distress rocket , which he intended to launch into orbit to warn the solar system of the Daleks ’ threat . |
| 6 | It is clearly of the utmost importance to UK businesses to know in competition matters the status of communications with their lawyers , given the Commission 's wide powers of investigation . |
| 7 | One key feature of her method was to differentiate between ( 1 ) what we know ; ( 2 ) what we can guess or infer ; ( 3 ) what we do not know ; ( 4 ) what we would like to know in order to carry the enquiry further . |
| 8 | The material is discussed and analysed in order to identify what it is necessary to know in order to solve the problem , and hence manage patient care . |
| 9 | ‘ Difficulty in breathing ’ : The tutor and learners decide what they need to know in order to understand the problem and provide nursing care . |
| 10 | It is a perfectly valid question , and we can at least write down what we would need to know in order to calculate the answer . |
| 11 | This chapter is designed to answer a simple question — what do school librarians and teachers , with little or no experience of microcomputers , need to know in order to overcome the initial uncertainties which people have when faced with new technology ? |
| 12 | What we are going to do is find a diet that not only helps you to achieve effective weight loss , but is really healthy , suits your individual needs , and can be followed for years to come in order to maintain the weight and shape you want . |
| 13 | Resources which are willing and able to work in order to raise the rate of output and to boost living standards are failing to be employed . |
| 14 | It is my intention to prepare a further paper taking account of the comments received , and then to invite interested parties to meet in order to discuss the way forward . |
| 15 | Where there was reluctance — as in Britain — middle-class pressure had to be brought to bear in order to convince the politicians that something ought to be done . |
| 16 | The headhunter may well feel that there is a need to bring a more general consulting focus to bear in order to solve the organisational issues before an executive search is undertaken . |
| 17 | These he is at pains to hide in order to promote the fiction of his rise from rags to riches . |
| 18 | Clerical staff who may be required to input data into the system will be expected to train in order to use the system . |
| 19 | They will be able to work from home using the firm 's computer equipment . |
| 20 | But they could still be summoned to appear in court to answer the allegations of their creditor , to admit or give good reasons for disclaiming them — if the sum involved was less than £5,000 in a county court , if more in the High Court . |
| 21 | Despairing in his heart that anything further could be done to improve the conditions of seafarers , Plimsoll nevertheless continued to work without respite to promote the cause in which he so passionately believed , and did so until illness forced him out of the public scene . |
| 22 | She had to stand on tiptoe to reach the stamp-machine . |
| 23 | I had to stand on tiptoe to reach the brass knocker , which had appeared since the previous day . |
| 24 | The minimum period which a prisoner can be expected to serve in order to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence has become known as the tariff period . |
| 25 | Surely a far more significant gesture by the government towards Britain 's immigrant community would be a hefty grant for the proposed Indian museum in Bradford , which the V&A wants to create in order to display the nation 's holdings of Indian art , mostly in store since the closure of the Indian Museum in 1947 . |
| 26 | The autumn sun glinted softly on the pastel-coloured vehicles , most of which Mr Frizzell expected to sell before winter paralysed the second-hand car business for four months . |
| 27 | Equally it is the case that the lack of opportunity to participate in employment blocks the development of the social career . |
| 28 | Darlington Council 's next plan is to set to work improving the derelict land sites bordering the River Skerne . |
| 29 | Mr Gorbachev may well use his powers to rule by decree to push the reform through . |
| 30 | New users of water or those who require more than the maximum amount scheduled in an existing licence have to apply for permission to take the estimated quantity to the water authority in the area in which the works is situated , which will then decide whether sufficient water is available for the new abstraction . |