Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents , friends and students came along to see the many activities and interests available to the mentally handicapped in this part of Kent . |
| 2 | Having regaled the population of Frome with ‘ Hamlet ’ , ‘ Romeo and Juliet ’ , ‘ School for Scandal ’ and a few other evergreens , they were soon off to take the same dose of culture to Shepton Mallet and Wells . |
| 3 | Twenty five years ago a band of motoring enthusiasts who wanted more than rallying or racing teamed up to start the All Wheel Drive Club … |
| 4 | Er whereas the County Council have sought to re to er keep vacancies constant , we have said that it is reasonable to seek to plan to keep second homes etcetera as a constant number but what I would term normal vacancies , can be reasonably be expected to go up to maintain the same proportion . |
| 5 | Between 1882 and 1894 he was also chairman of the Basic & Dephosphorizing Patents Co. , which was set up to safeguard the many patentees with interests in the dephosphorization process and the agricultural disposal of the phosphorus-rich basic slag . |
| 6 | Having sewn up the Cobol development business in the IBM mainframe world , Micro Focus Plc is setting out to pull the same trick in the Unix world and is offering what it describes as a complex Unix application development environment optimised for client-server applications . |
| 7 | On Saturday morning I was in such a hurry that I only said a quick goodbye to my family , before setting out to walk the few miles into town for the London coach . |
| 8 | When you come out to do the same session two weeks later , you know that you can do it , so you can afford to go a little faster . |
| 9 | Sydney : Early buying petered out to leave the All Ordinaries index up 3.9 points at 1,775.6 . |
| 10 | If PR turned out to have the same results in Britain , it would be a pact with the devil . ’ |
| 11 | Britain 's costliest player rounded the keeper but Duffy got back to block the former Dundee United man 's acute angled effort . |
| 12 | Just about to post the same info — from both teletext services . |
| 13 | Often a second man would be standing by to perform the same ritual . |
| 14 | The five-strong crew thought they were about to suffer the same disaster that struck another British Airways flight in June 1990 . |
| 15 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 16 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |
| 17 | As it so happened another young scholar , one who 's life was to become inextricably bound up with the politics of Trinidad , was also just about to make the same journey . |
| 18 | When less than a year later she topped the bill with Jason at a Children 's Royal Variety show at the Dominion Theatre she was not about to make the same error of judgement . |
| 19 | Green concerns may well be about to travel the same route . |
| 20 | Fat , he believes , is about to follow the same trend . |
| 21 | He then goes on to ask the same question about people with extraordinary talents , whether in physics , generalship or painting . |
| 22 | Marek went on to tell the same story as Tait had narrated to Blanche the day before in the circling car — of a brave man who was betrayed , tortured , castrated and shot . |