Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surroundings , however , are bleak , and interest is confined to the wide expanse of Loch Ewe , an inlet of the sea of considerable extent , commissioned into service during the war as a base to assist in the passage of convoys , when there was a submarine boom across the entrance . |
| 2 | There an Investigation Officer will consider the documentation and decide whether the solicitor about whom the complaint has been filed has a case to answer within the powers of the SCB . |
| 3 | I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more . |
| 4 | I think that may have been construed as impolite , so I smiled and replied that , yes indeed it was still a bit to go before the top , and wow , certainly it was proving mighty tough . |
| 5 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 6 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 7 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 8 | She skirted its edge and at last spotted a possible entry , finding a stick to whack at the jagged branches of an old dogrose . |
| 9 | The outcome was a decision to continue with the same dosage , because what is the use of physical strength without the brain to direct it ? |
| 10 | They are given a budget to spend on the drugs they prescribe for their patients . |
| 11 | Whether you use a shell to hide from the C : > prompt or as a useful tool , you will probably want to customise it to suit your system and personal preferences . |
| 12 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |
| 13 | ‘ The crew had quite a struggle to get into the cabin . |
| 14 | Far from bringing an end to worry , home ownership became a struggle to stay in the place called home . |
| 15 | To go into the ‘ night ’ betokens a willingness to go into the unknown . |
| 16 | It indicated a willingness to descend to the political arena in circumstances other than those of national crisis . |
| 17 | The general terms , financial data and proposed loan conditions are provided to enable potential lenders to assess and indicate a willingness to participate in the loan proposal . |
| 18 | Women writers are less likely to identify with the existential plight of the lone male , but even so , a willingness to conform to the narrative conventions of realism is evident in the fiction of a number of writers who are now viewed as innovative . |
| 19 | Such judgements were based upon a willingness to comply to the full with the turning of sports into a ‘ media event ’ . |
| 20 | Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with . |
| 21 | As a course to steer to the DF station . |
| 22 | This bothers the commission 's president , Jacques Delors , who thinks the Community has a part to play in the Middle East . |
| 23 | Alliances , mergers and JVs will have a part to play in the route to concentration . |
| 24 | And all those toiling thousands had a part to play in the decision to protect the hill . |
| 25 | ‘ These are not easy questions to resolve but I think that if it is possible , actually to speak to these characters in such a way that they feel that they are valued and that they do have a part to play in the community , then we are on the way to resolving questions of this sort . |
| 26 | Previous patterns of working , sets of beliefs about parents and their willingness and capacity to play a larger part in decisions about their children with special educational needs , professional uncertainty and paternalism all had a part to play in the process . |
| 27 | This is problematic for a group which has no longer a part to play in the productive sector . |
| 28 | Even doing the housework with Aunt Margaret satisfied her ; she had a part to play in the running of the home . |
| 29 | This and other studies revealed that shifts of posture , head movements and changing facial expression all have a part to play in the way a conversation moves from one person to another in a group . |
| 30 | It is also building a key contacts list covering those with a part to play in the process . |