Example sentences of "operate [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It entails a planned schedule of meetings for the various teams that operate during the school year ; these might be age-phase teams in a primary school , departmental or pastoral teams in a secondary school , or groups concerned with particular issues , for example , an equal-opportunities group . |
| 2 | Contracts made by any agent in pursuance of the principal 's instructions are binding on , and operate for the benefit of , the latter . |
| 3 | Editorial standards in the media operate for the most part well inside those limits , with the criminal law invoked chiefly against publications which have as their primary function the exploitation of those limits through material traded as ‘ forbidden fruit ’ . |
| 4 | It may also be equally true that disincentive effects operate for the very low and the low income-earners where any increase in earnings is counter-balanced — sometimes more than counter-balanced — by a corresponding loss of benefits . |
| 5 | Many toxins , such as snake venoms , operate through the victim 's nervous system and are being used in the treatment of human nervous disorders . |
| 6 | Both operate through the existing PC and file server network established following the company 's move into Broadgate in London three years ago , and were supplied as part of the installation . |
| 7 | Two myths , says Hughes , operate as the DNA of Shakespeare 's poetic organism , providing him with templates for each of the 14 plays from All 's Well That Ends Well to The Tempest . |
| 8 | He observes that fantasies operate like the primary process in that they ‘ fulfil desire ’ without the transformation of external reality but instead through the cathexis of , for example , the perceptual memory ( image ) of an organ . |
| 9 | This is a positive response to the globalisation of our industry and to provide our customers , particularly those from our established Gulf of Mexico and North Sea regions , with the complete package of Wimpol 's services wherever they operate throughout the world . |
| 10 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 11 | Therefore these features operate against the public interest . |
| 12 | This is not to deny that cliques and ‘ school gate agitators ’ sometimes operate with the sole intention of fermenting a campaign aimed at causing damage to the reputation of an individual or the school . |
| 13 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 14 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
| 15 | However , those in public relations do have a clear duty to consider the effects of their campaigns in the public sector for they operate with the powerful forces of media , information , social groups , and opinion formers . |
| 16 | We have this one and then we 're going further south and operate with the other , the second one . |
| 17 | We much regret that this involved a net loss of some jobs but if we are to remain competitive against increasing overseas competition , it is essential that we operate with the lowest possible cost base and the most efficient facilities . |
| 18 | They operate with the French Resistance movement , ferrying agents across from England , taking others out . |
| 19 | Although British-born members of the community operate with the notion of two opposed varieties , " Patois " and " ordinary English " as we have seen , there is a lot of overlap . |
| 20 | Firstly , based on past experience , they split the cost centre monies 56 per cent to capitation and 44 per cent to other expenditure headings which operate under the Cheshire ‘ Cost Centre ’ scheme . |
| 21 | The security forces will , however , always operate under the rule of the law . |
| 22 | Again , an extra quango would n't be needed and er he 's probably aware of that there is a develo er there is a group of er of er various regulators who erm who operate under the acronym finn F I double N N and which is referred to er in the fact that I think the chancellor made some announcement about it . |
| 23 | At night the city throbs with life , and bars , restaurants , clubs , discos and cinemas operate into the early ( and late ! ) hours of the morning . |
| 24 | Users of finance , most notably companies , operate within the limits imposed from outside : taxes , the cost of money , the rules and institutions governing financial distress . |
| 25 | But this notion — that one set of activities is serious and therefore by implication another set must be non-serious — is a naive view , for it presupposes that first and second order experiences operate within the same frame and are therefore amenable to comparison . |
| 26 | The way in which professions operate within the construction industry also tends to favour expensive engineering schemes on rivers , rather than small-scale operations . |
| 27 | That they are not ‘ ends in themselves ’ , to continue with Kantian terminology , simply marks the contrast with human beings whose desires and needs operate within the context of the pattern they impose upon their own lives . |
| 28 | Ultimately , the broadcasting services operate within the broad regulatory and structural decisions made by governments . |
| 29 | Although Stalin 's insistence on absolute control may in the fullness of time have evolved into an emphasis on ensuring ultimate control , Soviet leaders in the 1980s still operate within the essential security framework which Stalin bequeathed to them . |
| 30 | But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam . |