Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 870s , his successors Hadrian II and John VIII exploited an impending imperial vacancy ( Louis II of Italy lacked a male heir ) to claim for the papacy the right to choose emperors . |
| 2 | He is unlikely to drive through the party the change in the culture of Labourism that would give any realignment depth and substance . |
| 3 | Now the Anyons will be returning on dives to search for the boat the sword guard came from . |
| 4 | ‘ Secondly , I believe you will begin to see during the night the cracks opening at last in the moulds that have held British politics in sterile opposition between two major parties for so long . |
| 5 | And just to round off the day the rain stops , the Cleveland cocktail lifts and a pale , weak sun sticks his nose out from behind the clouds . |
| 6 | To round off the evening the pope awarded prizes to the men who had enjoyed the favours of the greatest number of dancers . |
| 7 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
| 8 | Ariel began to long for the peace the latter draughts brought to her . |
| 9 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 10 | During the Second World War , three influential reports were published which were to shape the evolution of statutory planing : the Barlow Report , in 1940 , which advocated controlled industrial decentralization from the conurbations ; the Scott Report , in 1942 , which argued for a system of planning controls to protect the agricultural use of the countryside ; and the Uthwatt Report , also in 1942 , which recommended nationalization of undeveloped land to secure for the community the value added to land by the planning system . |
| 11 | Continuing nursing care , it 's important to stress here , that the continuing nursing care , the arrangements have relied to some extent on the use of joint finance to ensure that the Health Authority has been able to meet during the year the extra workload , and er , the budget settlement that they have , er , is actually being discussed at the moment with a view to the picking up some of those costs on a continuing basis . |
| 12 | OUP expect to establish with the supplier the criteria which will be used to determine whether the system functions correctly and can be accepted by OUP . |
| 13 | We hope that it will never occur again , but if it does , may we have clear guidance so that those outside the House will know that if the police warn that it is unsafe to come into the House the Division either will or will not be extended ? |
| 14 | While the beer continues to ferment in the cask the CO 2 produced escapes through the soft spile . |
| 15 | This meant that Wilson would have to accept from the re-negotiation the same conditions as Heath had accepted , with perhaps a few minor , cosmetic modifications , or else withdraw the United Kingdom out of the EEC . |
| 16 | The opportunities for pupils to share , compare and contrast ideas are limited , and children are constrained to work in the way the workbook dictates . |
| 17 | It is important , however , not to exclude from the equation the ingestion of food contaminated by infective oocysts from cat faeces . |
| 18 | There is a need to ensure that we will be able to provide in the future the range and type of courses , especially the technologically/vocationally orientated courses that will be offered in F.E./tertiary colleges . |
| 19 | The following passage is taken from my book ‘ Managing Stress ’ and you will see how it is possible to extract from the text the relevant key words and then to create a thought-flow chart from them : |
| 20 | The receptionist should learn how to extract from the caller the exact nature of the information required in order to classify the enquiry . |
| 21 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 22 | 2–11–1911 As " it was impossible for the congregation to meet on the Sabbath the 5th day of November owing to the stormy weather prevailing that day " they resolved to dispense the Lord 's Supper on the next Sabbath . |
| 23 | I want you to concentrate on the way the rooms themselves bring about certain kinds of behaviour . |
| 24 | Although conceding , in a footnote , that one may use extrabiblical material to ‘ illuminate scripture ’ , her basic stance is to grant to the text the status of a self-contained entity . |
| 25 | Another variation is to impose on the seller the obligation to accept all orders placed in accordance with the buyer 's forecast , even though that forecast is not binding on the buyer . |
| 26 | We tried very hard to underline the importance of these paintings , so that if they were ever to come on the market the government would be conditioned to their importance . |
| 27 | The West Belfast MP said the Stormont discussions were not designed to criticise the police , but rather to relate to the Minister the fear felt in the city . |
| 28 | Martha had been attracted to Bob Lamb since the shepherd first came to work on the farm the previous November . |
| 29 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |
| 30 | We arranged to meet at the hotel the following morning . |