Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Even if the activities do present curbs on the rights of the general public to go about their business , street action might still be justified where , for example , it brings to public consciousness some injustice that would not otherwise receive a public hearing . ) |
| 2 | Certainly , the activities do focus concentration and energy , but I also use these activities diagnostically , to give myself time and space to assess the class , to learn about their social health ; they help me feel comfortable with the class , and that is important . |
| 3 | In British Airways staff and their representatives were offered the opportunity to help generate ideas , and this resulted in very imaginative ways of reducing the cost of employing people without necessarily making them redundant or reducing their income . |
| 4 | William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason . |
| 5 | Only briefly at the end of the 1960s and again in the mid-1970s did average earnings rise significantly above the all-industry average . |
| 6 | The EEC does offer grants to academics for research on approved projects ; but so far it has been unable to help with the major problems of the academic researchers , such as shortage of jobs , lack of mobility of researchers and declining funds for research . |
| 7 | A side effect of such a procedure would be to strengthen the position of the individual auditor both in relation to his clients and to his ‘ partner equivalents ’ ; in today 's highly competitive audit market , the auditor does encounter clients who exert considerable pressure to accept controversial accounting practices . |
| 8 | Moreover , a few years later , the Burgundians did provide troops to fight against Attila at the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 9 | ‘ Blanket this on child the put ’ has no meaning , Yet if these six words are rearranged to read ‘ Put the child on this blanket ’ , the sentence does have meaning . |
| 10 | If the drafter does use definitions , care should be taken to use them accurately . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the heart did earn Mark 112 days of life . |
| 12 | The school says some parents owe more than three thousand pounds , and it needs the money to help pay teachers ' salaries . |
| 13 | But the teaching does treat adultery and divorce with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 14 | The interest of this text is that it makes clear both the availability of a remedy against a third party , and the fact that that party has notice of the existence of the trust ; and it apparently limits the availability of the missio to cases where the buyer does have notice : cases , therefore , in which bad faith is involved . |
| 15 | If the buyer does obtain ownership , then he does not suffer a total failure of consideration . |
| 16 | Although the light does light rots anyway does n't it . |
| 17 | Even if the PLO did waive refugee rights , it is questionable whether it would be able to maintain such a waiver . |
| 18 | The powerful London Society of Compositors managed to see that women were on the whole excluded from the capital , even if some employers who had moved to the provinces did employ women . |
| 19 | Metropolitan Police Motion made , and Question proposed , That the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis do take care that during the Session of Parliament the passages through the streets leading to this House be kept free and open and that no obstruction be permitted to hinder the passage of Members to and from this House , and that no disorder be allowed in Westminster Hall , or in the passages leading to this House , during the Sitting of Parliament , and that there be no annoyance therein or thereabouts ; and that the Serjeant at Arms attending this House do communicate this Order to the Commissioner aforesaid . |
| 20 | The practice does take place in the Church of Ireland , though as it happened , it did not seem to have come Lewis 's way at St Mark 's , Dundela . |
| 21 | The rule does lack conviction when poorly interpreted , as was the case when the umpire at square leg ‘ called ’ Prabhakar at Adelaide after a ball passed just over the batsman as he ducked . |
| 22 | There seems to be a consensus that the plan did encourage accumulation , at least up to the late sixties . |
| 23 | Some economists argue , however , that German unification required a real appreciation of the D-mark to help shift resources from its current-account surplus into domestic investment and consumption . |
| 24 | A tip for oxygenating plants — slip a pair of old tights round the basket to help keep soil and stones in place . |
| 25 | And the machine did have bowels — she could smell them : a dark , rancid odour comprising the spilled residue of a hundred types of food . |
| 26 | The law does make provision for a person on a child-abuse register to know and to challenge that decision but the information does not have to come through the school record . |
| 27 | The law does permit judges to be prosecuted for crimes they may commit , while so acting , but proof of criminal intent would be extremely difficult to obtain , even if an appropriate charge could be devised . |
| 28 | The effect of the premedication did help Mr Reynolds to relax for a short while prior to going to theatre . |
| 29 | Even if copyright protection of computer programs is developed by the courts to become stronger , the Act does contain safeguards . |
| 30 | In terms of presumptions , the Act did enforce performance in a specified manner ( a fine ) but this gives way to the first exception , the obligation was imposed for the benefit of a class of people , factory employees . |