Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distributing next year 's maintained payment between the two new companies has clearly not been an easy task and question marks must remain over the board 's decision just to split the 1993 payment straight down the middle with the promise that each company will not pay less than 27.5p a share . |
| 2 | Although it is the coroner 's court 's function simply to find the cause of death , under what circumstances it happened and who , if anybody , is to be charged and with what , many members of the public plus the national papers were speaking as if Drew had already been indicted . |
| 3 | A project manager has to be able to look over people 's shoulders electronically to check the work is going to meet specification and if not , will it affect the deadline . |
| 4 | It was McLaren 's pleasure always to up the ante … |
| 5 | Menem 's plan radically to restructure the economy provoked widespread looting of supermarkets in February and March 1990 [ see pp. 37244 ; 37501 ; for March , August and September austerity measures see pp. 37500 ; 37710 ] . |
| 6 | Again , there is no real need to comment — except that it is the media planner 's job both to discourage the creative group from trying to produce massive , spectacular ads when the budget is minimal , and to keep them aware of new ideas and ways of using the media . |
| 7 | IF 80 minutes of dynamic non-stop dance , combined with reverberant rock music seems like an irresistible combination , then head for Glasgow 's Tramway fast to catch the stunning new show from the Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs — Chummlees and Fanshaws to you and me — as conjured out of choreographer Lea Anderson 's febrile imagination . |
| 8 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 9 | For Labour , Mr Clive Soley said that there was a housing crisis , with people being squeezed between the collapse of the housing market under the weight of mortgage interest rates , and the Government 's failure properly to maintain the council housing stock while forcing councils to increase rents . |
| 10 | A White Paper of July 1937 had stated it to be the government 's aim further to reduce the price of liquid milk to local authorities in order to improve distribution ; throughout 1938 there were discussions within the Board of Education , and in July 1939 a Milk Industry Act was passed . |
| 11 | This part of Majorca is the most popular area on the island and each summer more and more 18–30 's flock here to enjoy the sunshine , the beach , the nightlife and the company of more young people than you could possibly imagine . |
| 12 | The government 's refusal fully to implement the Disabled Person 's ( Services , Consultation and Representation ) Act 1986 leaves users dependent on the good practice of service providers , without clear cut rights to assessment or explanation when services are not provided . |
| 13 | Opponents of Sunday trading will be upset by the scheme , which comes on top of the Government 's refusal yesterday to enforce the Sunday shopping law in general . |
| 14 | Eric Cantona went as close as anyone when he tried a 40 yard lob which sailed over the goalkeeper 's head only to hit the bar and bounce into the grateful arms of Dmitri Kharine . |
| 15 | But more immediately it reminds us that the imperial invaders played the role of the Persians ; that Barbarossa 's efforts systematically to reduce the cities of the north — and less systematically , those of Tuscany and Umbria — led to the formation of the First Lombard League ; and that the long struggle with the Hohenstaufen was one of the preludes to the formation of the civic empires which dominated late medieval Italy . |
| 16 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 17 | This is a major landmark in the Institution 's policy continuously to improve the lifeboat service . ’ |
| 18 | The backs have breath-taking pace out wide and both wingers have looked hungry for ball , turning up on each other 's wings regularly to create the extra man . |
| 19 | His pluralist imitators argued that ‘ responsible ’ party elites used their limited powers to shape voters ' opinion primarily to preserve the stability of liberal democracies . |