Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having borrowed money to maintain their vast estates they found that the estates were too inefficient to generate the income to pay back the loans . |
| 2 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 3 | BIRKENHEAD 'S Queensway tunnel will be closed for major electrical works this week and Mersey Tunnels staff are taking the opportunity to spruce up the tube . |
| 4 | The opportunity to press home the naval attack was thus lost and with it the possibility of the overthrow of Turkey . |
| 5 | Amberyarn is a real working mill , you will have the opportunity to see how the yarn is produced in a demonstration of twisting , spinning and winding . |
| 6 | The audience was predominantly trade-orientated , but found the opportunity to see how the consumer side of credit operates . |
| 7 | Des said : ‘ This trip will give me the opportunity to see how the adopted project is doing and feed back some information to Edinburgh . ’ |
| 8 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 9 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
| 10 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 11 | Vice-Chairman Derek Edwards took the opportunity to stress publicly the urgent need to make their campaign a national one . |
| 12 | The advent of satellite T.V. and the commitment of ITV to rugby coverage provides the opportunity to assess how the Australians cope with the challenges of Scotland , New Zealand and South Africa during a very short space of time . |
| 13 | Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team . |
| 14 | Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease . |
| 15 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 16 | The State has the obligation of ensuring this end by guaranteeing that homosexuals , living as they do in an ‘ abnormal ’ relationship , do not have the opportunity to influence directly the upbringing of children . |
| 17 | The tour , which ended on Thursday , gave royal journalists the opportunity to scrutinise closely the couple together on 12 occasions within four days . |
| 18 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 19 | They need to gain confidence and the child needs the opportunity to learn how the parent can establish limits . |
| 20 | Demonstrations of Prestel are given as part of the information skills courses and pupils have the opportunity to try out the system . |
| 21 | Whichever route you choose , you have the opportunity to select precisely the style , layout , size , materials and finish you want , maybe even to add on an extension , with a room above the garage , and perhaps a workshop behind . |
| 22 | He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday . |
| 23 | It was for the juy to tie up the loose ends , unemotionally . |
| 24 | But I could n't get the support to set up the business . ’ |
| 25 | Anti-abortionists in the House , faced with growing defections from their ranks , abandoned the struggle to strike out the clause , and chose instead to rely on a promise by President George Bush , on June 4 , to veto the legislation . |
| 26 | The Art Newspaper is delighted to be one of this year 's winners and will use the award to build up the paper 's archive . |
| 27 | In order for the vast pressure vessel ( the one we had seen being manufactured in France ) to negotiate the narrow village streets , it was necessary for the Board to buy up the frontages of over thirty houses . |
| 28 | Finally , the appeal to the Privy Council encounters a further hurdle , in the shape of the long-established reluctance of the Board to interfere where the appeal is brought by special leave , except in cases of a serious miscarriage of justice , a reluctance which is even greater where the appeal is concerned with matters of procedure . |
| 29 | ‘ If a rusty water pipe bursts it takes an enormous amount of time to find the money to carry out the repairs . |
| 30 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |