Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 2 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 3 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 4 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 5 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 6 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 7 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 8 | The head of the ‘ effigy ’ is a wax portrait — Bentham 's own head was removed , desiccated , provided with glass eyes and placed under a glass dome to sit between the feet of the auto-icon ; it , too , is now on public display — a little start-eyed , yet nevertheless recognizable ( Col. 3 ) . |
| 9 | The soundtrack is industrial dance , the punters the kind of alternative/college crowd who presumably are about to go for The Shamen in a big way . |
| 10 | Even if he had been able to fix the damage , Manville had no desire to drive through the streets of Washington with the slogan ‘ Fuck U Honkies ’ sprayed in bright red aerosol paint on the ice-blue hood of the Ford . |
| 11 | To enable her to drive through the streets with him in an open carriage and be jointly greeted at receptions , he decided in 1914 that , on the anniversary of his marriage , he would inspect the army in Bosnia , of which the capital was Sarajevo . |
| 12 | It would be a simple matter to saw off the shafts of the clubs and embed the heads in a dummy top . |
| 13 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 14 | A US military team arrived in Phnom Penh on July 24 to search for the bodies of US servicemen missing in action ( MIA ) in Cambodia after the Vietnam war . |
| 15 | However , if the Institute is going to plan for the needs of 2001 AD , the whole idea of space occupied by books may need to be revised . |
| 16 | A strong swimmer , she managed to reach a rock jutting above the water , and there she stuck ; it would have been suicidal to attempt to swim through the rapids to either shore . |
| 17 | The group says they 'consider it inappropriate and ill advised to carry through the prposals for the restructuring of the Army in their entirety , and that they recommend the Government cancel all amalgamations or disbandments ’ |
| 18 | It was a simple matter to strip off the layers of spoil from the stages in the construction . |
| 19 | Pushing himself with indolent grace away from the door , Rourke came into the room and began to rummage about the shelves beneath the counter . |
| 20 | Well I I shall leave you to go through the questions for a few minutes . |
| 21 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 22 | Finally , at around 3am one Sunday in 1967 pump man , Willie Baxter , was detailed to go through the tunnels from St Enochs to Bridge Street Station where he was to attend to a tank located beneath the stairs . |
| 23 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 24 | All you need is a well-fed body to go through the motions of life . |
| 25 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
| 26 | If you have n't done so already , you may find it useful to go through the lists of ‘ You already use this approach if you … ’ and ‘ This approach will be useful if you … ‘ , ticking which ones you use most . |
| 27 | I did n't want to go through the arguments for and against . |
| 28 | If you want to go through the details of assignment and analysis , there are many excellent treatments that will help you , varying in depth from the brief but extremely clear account in Ref. [ 20 ] to long and complicated books on the subject , for example , Ref. [ 21 ] . |
| 29 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 30 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |