Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a strange sight now to see vegetables growing on the pure white substrate . |
| 2 | It used to be thought by many scientists that the armoured plates stuck outwards , as in Stegosaurus , in order to hit enemies approaching from the side . |
| 3 | Three out of four UK chemical firms surveyed by Friends of the Earth failed to support proposals to extend to the UK the level of openness on toxic emissions required in the US . |
| 4 | On Wednesday morning the prince , in his role as president of Scottish Business in the Community , will visit Craigmillar to see projects developed by the local community , local authority and other agencies , with help from the Friends of Craigmillar — a group of business leaders . |
| 5 | ‘ The ability to perform activities required to the standards specified . ’ |
| 6 | They include non-work-related tasks to enable groups to focus on the process skills rather than the task skills . |
| 7 | Draft SAS 470 sets out existing guidance in the new format including consideration of whether disclosure in financial statements is fair and the aggregate effect of uncorrected misstatements , while draft SAS 520 extends the scope of guidance in assessing other people 's work to include experts employed by the auditors . |
| 8 | He would like to see safeguards built into the bill to limit the size of the new co-op and he is also critical of plans by Milk Marque to retain control of key activities like milk testing and the artificial insemination service . |
| 9 | The course is under constant review and is planned flexibly to enable tutors to respond to the needs of particular groups of students , but the following three paragraphs itemise some of the particular emphases given to language during the three years . |
| 10 | The charge was that the trio had ‘ conspired with persons inserting ads and with other persons to induce readers to resort to the said advertisements for the purposes of homosexual practices and thinking to debauch and corrupt public morals contrary to common law . ’ |
| 11 | Craft specialization is often subsidized at the redistribution centre in a chiefdom society , so we should expect to see crafts flourishing in the temple culture of bronze age Crete : we should also expect to see craftsmen gathering in the temples , where the agricultural surpluses and imports were collected and redistributed . |
| 12 | During our extensive research on WOW ! teachers asked us to provide skills work from the beginning . |
| 13 | By two mortgages dated 18 February 1985 and 25 October 1985 respectively , the sixth plaintiff entered into legal mortgages , charging specific assets to secure moneys owed to the first defendant by the second plaintiff and its subsidiaries . |
| 14 | On 17 July 1985 , the seventh plaintiff , and on 26 July 1983 and 17 July 1985 the eighth plaintiff , also entered into legal mortgages charging specific assets to secure moneys owed to the first defendant by the second plaintiff and its subsidiaries . |
| 15 | Change the patient 's position two hourly to encourage secretions to drain from the chest and to relieve pressure on the chest wall . |
| 16 | One of the very special things Christine did for her was to write notes to leave for the tradesmen when Miss Miggs was going to be out when they called — like NO MILK TODAY , THANK YOU , or ONE SMALL LOAF , PLEASE . |
| 17 | In actually measuring subjective risk while driving it seems appropriate to encourage drivers to think about the external environment in a more normal way and answer questions about subjective risk with reference to their internal states . |
| 18 | Keeping in touch with all local voluntary groups , clubs and local organisations in order to obtain opportunities to speak about the work of the health service and the employment opportunities . |
| 19 | In a long poem we expect to find breathing-spaces interspersed between the more important sections of the poem ; in The Prelude the real matter is the philosophy , and the narrative passages , as can be clearly seen here , are illustrations of it . |
| 20 | The school has various other ways to encourage parents to join in the work of the school . |
| 21 | The aim of the scheme is to improve areas around building sites , making them cleaner and easier to negotiate , to encourage contractors working in the borough to use more environmentally-friendly materials and to be more energy efficient . |
| 22 | To compensate for votes lost on the right , he needs to attract Communists horrified by the summer 's iconoclastic alliance , and has described the left-wing coalition as ‘ a crutch for New Democracy , a spare part ’ . |
| 23 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 24 | The aim is to provide investigators working on the past or the present with total kin estimates of any chosen kind , provided always that a reasonable estimate of the demographic regime concerned is available . |
| 25 | Fund-holding GPs in the first year were less afraid to switch contracts to better units or consultants , could make more flexible contracts , demand more attention , and use their funds to encourage consultants to come to the surgery rather than rely on patients to go to outpatients in the hospital . |
| 26 | To find conditions leading to the formation of stable complexes we investigated whether the addition in the incubation mixture of the first two initiating NTPs relieved the heparin sensitivity , as it had been described for other promoters with similar characteristics ( 8 ) . |
| 27 | This was described as a step towards internal convertibility by 1992 , and to meet conditions set by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |
| 28 | It focuses on the manager helping the individual to find ways to improve in the future . |
| 29 | Margaret Wilson , who chairs the residents ' organisation , has written to the licensing board to encourage members to vote for the proposals . |
| 30 | The purpose itself , being the idea , was not protected by copyright ; it is quite acceptable for others to write programs to help with the running of dental laboratories . |