Example sentences of "to [det] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review . |
| 2 | The body of a cat when hunting takes on a quite different demeanour to that of the same pussy when out for an idle stroll or with some other intention in mind . |
| 3 | The total number of buyout and buy-in transactions in the first half of 1992 , at 301 completions , was virtually identical to that in the same period in 1991 , although the total value of transactions rose by 40% to £1.65bn . |
| 4 | Mrs Pouncey is at present editing his diaries , drawing attention to entries such as one for October 1949 , when , between 7.17 am and 12.25 pm he visited no less than twelve Roman churches , certainly with the intense concentration he devoted to each of the many visits they made to Italy together . |
| 5 | What is central to the life of an elder may be marginal to each of the several organisations providing services , and , as recently reiterated by the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , can easily be missed in their selective assessments . |
| 6 | It is with interest , that I read Amanda Archibald 's recently published notes of her thoughts as a U.K. citizen , now living and working in the U.S.A. By all accounts , she has been profoundly impressed , and she has done a good job in introducing ‘ Contact ’ readers to some of the many positive aspects of living as an expatriate in the U.S.A. As a person proud to enjoy dual nationality of Canada and England , however , I should like to redress the balance somewhat , and question some of Amanda 's blanket statements . |
| 7 | One of the most difficult but necessary jobs for any Government — and for any Prime Minister — is therefore to say ‘ no ’ to some of the many bright ideas that come forward for spending more money . |
| 8 | There were gifts and handshakes on the top floor of Hinton House as Sir christopher Bade farewell to some of the many friends he has made during his six-year chairmanship . |
| 9 | At a joint news conference yesterday with Tokyo 's governor , Shunichi Suzuki , he turned quickly to some of the many differences between the sister cities , and omitted a line from a prepared statement that had said ‘ Tokyo and New York are more alike than any two cities on the face of the earth . ’ |
| 10 | Churchill , in a very different , romantic fashion , appealed to some of the same values , with free use ( and abuse ) of history in the process . |
| 11 | A putative theory of science based only on description would be open to some of the same objections as were levelled against the naive inductivist account of how scientific theories themselves are arrived at . |
| 12 | The decrease in the pace of urban-rural movement in the late 1970s can partly be ascribed to some of the same factors working in reverse . |
| 13 | Most of the other mourners were listening to this with the same rapt attention they might have accorded a vaguely accurate account of Donald 's life . |
| 14 | Erm could we give out the , the handout cos I think I 'd like them to refer to this on the All you 've got to do is write these things down , cos you 've , cos you 've got most of this on the way through . |
| 15 | Chamberlain refers to this in the same breath as mentioning an argument between the Marquess Buckingham and Hamilton over ‘ the selling of honours and abasing ancient nobility , by new advancements ’ . |
| 16 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 17 | Why is it that one person reacts differently to another in the same circumstances ? |
| 18 | Whilst it does not have the theological aims of the NVALA , the NFoL/CARE or the OCU , it still appears to have developed in response or opposition to many of the same social trends highlighted by those other groups . |
| 19 | The probability of correctly recalling a junction appears to be related to many of the same things as subjective risk — traffic seen , time spent at the junction , objective and estimated risk . |
| 20 | If we turn to trusts we find Valens stating that if maintenance has been left by trust to freedmen without a sum being stated , then first of all the amounts usually paid by the deceased are to be taken into account , then his bequests to those of the same class , and failing these his assets and intimacy with the beneficiaries are to be considered . |
| 21 | Reid was familiar with the works of both Malebranche and Arnauld , and expressed views strikingly similar to those in the latter 's Treatise in his own Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man . |
| 22 | Fourth , ‘ theories which assert that all inequality is morally wrong ’ : resources are allocated by comparison across individual lives at any given moment ; for example most people would unequivocally give priority for treatment to those in the most pain . |
| 23 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 24 | However , even in the present stage of battery technology and without recourse to any of the many new battery types under test at present it is estimated that due to the preponderance of short trips ( this is in an industrialised country equivalent in size to the UK ) 70% of present fuel consumption in cars could be substituted by use of battery vehicles . |
| 25 | The proprietors are happy to provide dinner with prior notice or to direct you to any of the many pubs and restaurants within a three-mile radius . |
| 26 | It will be interesting to see if Novell comes to any of the same business decisions once it takes over . |
| 27 | ( 8 ) The text of the tender advertisement must be cleared with the Quotations Department if the offer is made on the London Stock Exchange but otherwise with the Panel and copies of the final text must be given to both at the same time as they are given to the newspapers . |