Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is fact is a debate about personal freedom the freedom of our tenants to choose the quite legal activities that take place on their farms for whatever we may think about the merits and de-merits of angling or shooting fox hunting , these are activities that Parliament has decided are permissible . |
| 2 | You do n't just jump between the sheets and say , ‘ Hey , let's go for it . |
| 3 | So y y you would n't know about the ins and outs of what went on when they ? |
| 4 | Because of his other highly classified projects , his office already contained all the paraphernalia of necessary secrecy : the code-block and buttons on the door , the gaggle of different-coloured telephones , the five-thousand-pound safes , even the tempered glass in the windows , as his lawyer noted at his trial , ‘ so that enemies of the country ca n't beam through the windows and pick up the sound ’ . |
| 5 | Now if , do n't wait , if you know somebody has swallowed a poison whatever it is , get them to a hospital do n't wait for the signs and symptoms to appear , get them to a hospital . |
| 6 | What did he know of the pains and penalties of being a female ? |
| 7 | Hecataeus did not know of the patriarchs and apparently had never heard of Hebrew kings . |
| 8 | Born in Hamburg , he was transferred to the Manor House at Amnersfield , the son of a remote German-American mother and of a sour , withdrawn , irritable Anglo-Scottish father , who would retreat behind the Times and spend the evening in lonely state , smoking his pipe in his kilt . |
| 9 | Doctors should not collude with the authorities and ‘ medicalise ’ people who are suicidal . |
| 10 | " I wonder , " she said , " if a woman could fall into the ways and after a while it would n't bother her . |
| 11 | For example when foreign documents relating to professional conduct the opinions of experts not sealable on disputes of policy in professional to etiquette to elucidate the rules of a particular profession , English law , morals and probability of human nature and all our opinions of law is that which English law though they may prove the proper costs of particular legal proceedings , neither expert or ordinary witnesses may give their opinions upon matters of legal or moral obligations or general human nature or the manner in which other persons would probably act in the interests and my Lord this director points at the policy it is in fact the authority admits which is Mr Justice then was . |
| 12 | ‘ If you leave it with me for an hour , I 'll pencil in the vowels and divide up the words at the end of the sentences . ’ |
| 13 | Enforcement of any new laws would fall to the police and require large numbers of officers to be on standby , said Mr Graham . |
| 14 | First , members of the public , as local government electors , have the right to inspect , question and object to the accounts and to question and take issue with the auditor on matters arising in his or her report . |
| 15 | They believed success could win over the students and other intellectuals . |
| 16 | This chapter will concentrate on the circumstances and Chapter 8 on the consequences of departure . |
| 17 | The use of delegated legislation saves Parliamentary time : ( a ) Parliament can concentrate on the principles and ignore the details which can be worked out elsewhere . |
| 18 | Do not rush your exercise practice but find approximately 15 minutes each day when you can seriously concentrate on the postures and enjoy the benefits they will give to your body . |
| 19 | Where the material to be used in enquiry work is audio-visual ( as for instance a filmstrip , perhaps with the accompanying booklet transcribed on to audio-cassette so that the eye can concentrate on the pictures and the slower readers have quick access to the text ) then of course suitable equipment must be available in sufficient quantity for the expected numbers of students at any one time . |
| 20 | She will lecture and demonstrate on the preparations and finishing techniques which will ensure that your garments have a professional finished appearance . |
| 21 | Attention will focus on the factors and considerations which affected LEA decisions to recognise social disadvantage and target the allocation of resources towards disadvantaged schools . |
| 22 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 23 | Soult and his men will finish with the flags and medals , he 'll see to that . ’ |
| 24 | Most of this lot will just pour into the rivers and the sea . |
| 25 | We can generalise from the rights and wrongs of his account of seeing to the use of the other senses as well . |
| 26 | These agents ( or otherwise a promoter ) must appear before the Examiners and satisfy them that the Standing Order requirements about giving notice to objectors ( i.e. persons wishing to oppose the Bill by reason of its allegedly deleterious effect on their interests ) have been observed . |
| 27 | He was satisfied the reasons which the mother advanced against adoption were not ones a reasonable mother would advance in the circumstances and were not reasonable reasons and that a reasonable woman in her position would give her consent . |
| 28 | Other examples of insurance claims being referred to experts do not appear in the reports and are not generally encountered in practice ; the insurance world has a pronounced preference for arbitration . |
| 29 | Local officials said that the move could result in the police and army being used locally for the first time , but reflected members ' anger and frustration . |
| 30 | The essence of the matter was stated in the first sentence of Article 613 : ‘ when an enterprise or a part of an enterprise is transferred to another owner ( sic ) as a result of a legal transaction , the latter shall succeed to the rights and obligations under the contracts of employment existing at the date of the transfer ’ ( my translation ) . |