Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Having emptied the honey-pot , I understand that the trustees are now allowing the income to build up again before further distributions . ’
2 Then in 1986 came the opportunity to set up independently with Tim Hely Hutchinson and Sue Fletcher .
3 Falling sea levels periodically gave mainland species , isolated on islands for thousands of years , the opportunity to join up again .
4 However , we now have an opportunity to show that Europe can address European problems and that we will intervene in a way that will give the people of Yugoslavia the opportunity to sit down together and find a peaceful solution to the problems .
5 It is good practice for a trainee to be given the opportunity to work in more than one department to broaden his experience .
6 I wish for the committal to go along please sir ?
7 So how do you go about persuading the birds to set up home ?
8 If the other participants approved a solution it would assist in persuading the Russians to join in eventually .
9 And ask the Archdeacon to step up now , would you ? ’
10 They have removed the right of women to have child-care costs taken into account when claiming income support , and they have prevented those women from having the freedom to take up part-time work to improve their incomes .
11 Keith also wanted his own room and the freedom to go out separately .
12 His card message system gave him the freedom to go out alone and hail a taxi , showing the driver the appropriate card for the place he wanted to visit .
13 One way of avoiding this problem is to use JTMP ( Job Transfer and Manipulation Protocol ) to run jobs remotely ; once a workable JTMP framework has been set up , there is no need for the user to log on directly to CMS at all .
14 The client was so impressed with Bruce 's presentation that they bought the sprayer at a cost of £22,500 from the agricultural machinery specialist and agreed a contract with Rentokil to supply the labour to use the sprayer to carry out fortnightly treatments over the summer months for £12,000 a year .
15 At the last the weather has been descent enough for some of the crags to dry out long enough for the new routers to get busy .
16 Have n't got the key to go round there once so , I 'll put that on and I 've got a nightie .
17 He draped inflamable material over it and calibrated the switch to come on later in the day .
18 He gave the city not eighty or so acres of ground , but more like two hundred and twenty , he burned to have the funds to take up lovingly every acre of those two hundred and twenty , and tenderly brush away the dust of centuries from every artifact he expected to recover ; and his expectations were high .
19 This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick .
20 I do n't know how you have the nerve to come down here , really .
21 Just like the bad old days , the idea is to get the brothers to take over as many places as possible .
22 We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train .
23 Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved .
24 I mean a visit to the council to find out exactly what they do take would be
25 Prop the cake ( with its board ) on a low box such as a matchbox , to allow the skirt to drape down and the feet to point out underneath .
26 Now with diabetes there 's two types , too much sugar and too little sugar now diabetes erm , Irene said to you , erm is controlled by the insulin in the pancreas in the stomach , it throws out this insulin the liver throws out the sugar and I 'm not going into actual detail , but if there is too little insulin then it is allowing the liver to send out too much glucose , so if , if the person has got this erm pancreas that is n't churning out insulin or too little then your person will have sugar diabetes .
27 and that helps the bottom to dry out quicker .
28 In many climates there are long dry seasons followed by long wet seasons , each season giving ample chance for the wood to dry out thoroughly and then , in due time to soak up a great deal of water and swell .
29 Here again , it was easy for the grandchildren to call in frequently : the two houses were both in the same ‘ raw — this ‘ raw ’ was a row of houses .
30 I wish the committee to go along please sir .
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