Example sentences of "to [det] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question enrages China , which gobbled up Tibet in 1951 ( to few protests at the time ) . |
| 2 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 3 | Mr. Whitaker also referred me to some passages in the speeches of Viscount Finlay and Lord Dunedin in Weld-Blundell v. Stephens [ 1920 ] A.C. 956 , 966–968 , 976 . |
| 4 | Along with the island 's hydro-electric scheme — bringing power to some houses for the first time — and the harbour improvements , the incident will probably go down in Shetland annals as another stage in Foula 's modernisation . |
| 5 | The first is that a human observer has more or less direct access to some properties of the external world insofar as those properties are recorded by the brain in the act of seeing . |
| 6 | After this , we might fairly expect our journey to have led us to some certainties about the language . |
| 7 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
| 8 | Gunn is something of an oddity — at least to some viewers of the local scene . |
| 9 | The girls walked off in one direction to some hedges on the far side , leaving George with Willie and Zach . |
| 10 | I 'm quite happy to listen to some things about the election cos in fact I do n't know |
| 11 | At Authority level , the INSET programme , as later sections of this chapter will show , attended to some areas at the expense of others . |
| 12 | As these blood vessels nourish skin cells , when they do n't work properly not enough nutrients get to some areas of the skin . |
| 13 | He used to bring me flowers , but as you can see ’ — she gestured to some carnations on the table — ‘ that 's always happening . |
| 14 | But when such circumstances do arise , questions with respect to the appropriate procedure to be followed in requiring drivers to provide specimens of blood or urine have given rise to some difficulties in the courts and it is to the resolution of those questions that this appeal is directed . |
| 15 | The general view , extending to some members of the RCM , held that refugees belonged to the lower orders , and that no amount of hard work or intellectual promise on their part could alter their self-evident assumption . |
| 16 | Some would argue that the major deficiency in the green form scheme is that it is administered through solicitors and must , therefore , share the same unattractiveness to some members of the public . |
| 17 | Mr Harvey always take us to the Kentucky Derby and we stay in Washington for the Preakness meeting , then go on to some friends of the Harveys in New York . |
| 18 | Moneylenders were registered ; subject to some conditions over the way they did business ; they were able to advertise in only a very restricted way ( for example , they were not allowed to mention interest rates or repayment schedules ) ; and courts could re-open their loans , setting new terms , if they charged excessive interest and the original terms were ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ . |
| 19 | Jenny Watson 's work addresses women 's issues , too , however obliquely , by calling attention to some cliches of the feminine . |
| 20 | ‘ It was , in my view , the lack of a sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach which led not only to the failure to appreciate that there was a Jersey partnership but also to some others of the faults I have identified . ’ |
| 21 | If the earth is thought of as a billiard ball , then the water upon its face is like hammered gold leaf , adhering to some imperfections in the ball more tightly than to others , and in yet others not adhering at all . |
| 22 | By way of illustration , Table 7.2 shows how it applies to some brands in the men 's toiletry field . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept that the House is united in abhorring war crimes — and no doubt there were many — but that the House will want to consider early-day motion 275 which draws attention to some articles in the Evening Standard and elsewhere which remind us that mistakes have been made ? |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously the message has not got through to some parts of the organisation . ’ |
| 25 | Although the practical work is closely related to some parts of the theory , there is a discrete set of lectures on the subject . |
| 26 | However , some further points must be made : NCB itself will acknowledge that these concerns relate only to some parts of the overall provision made by the four schools which offered themselves freely and fully as subjects for enquiry . |
| 27 | Of course there is strong opposition to some parts of the Bill , to which many of my hon. Friends have drawn the attention of the Minister , but it also has to be said that , perhaps unusually for Government legislation , there is a large part of the Bill on which there is a wide measure of agreement . |
| 28 | Mr. George Robert Gray , the ornithological assistant in the Zoological department of the British Museum , has in the most obliging manner undertaken to obviate this difficulty , by furnishing me with information with respect to some parts of the general arrangement , and likewise on that most intricate subject , — the knowledge of what species have already been described , and the use of proper generic terms … |
| 29 | Demonstrate , in talking about fiction and poetry , that they are developing their own views and can support them by reference to some details in the text , eg when talking about characters and actions in fiction . |
| 30 | If I can talk immediately to scope of that amendment before moving on to some points about the budget . |