Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [subord] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agents and exporters should therefore treat them as within the existing system , and include T2 documents where appropriate . |
| 2 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 3 | For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " . |
| 4 | Dermot Desmond , who secured his investment in UPH and whose executives Kevin Barry and Chris McHugh indirectly controlled the site until days before Telecom purchased it , apparently never advised him as to the potential conflict of interest . |
| 5 | I arranged Ron Davies 's talk on the Indian sub-continent some time ago and we postponed it because of the African theme . |
| 6 | I arranged Ron Davies 's talk on the Indian sub-continent some time ago and we postponed it because of the African theme . |
| 7 | I arranged Ron Davies 's talk on the Indian sub-continent some time ago and we postponed it because of the African theme . |
| 8 | The latter at more than eight minutes long could easily have become one but for the hypnotic strains and pumping rhythm . |
| 9 | How better to inculcate it than in the young ? " |
| 10 | By the time I started to react there was no time to do anything except at the instinctive level . |
| 11 | It is just their dignity as selves that is at issue , and Mr Jones has chosen the most powerful humiliation of all , that is treating them as within the social control of their parents . |
| 12 | Yet they became an instant success , and their following visits established them as among the very top Festival favourites of the 1980s . |
| 13 | I quite like doing it because of the funny taste on my fingers . |
| 14 | ‘ We hit the mark , ’ said Conner 's tactician , Tom Whidden , ‘ but we hit it because of the other boat . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps your correspondent could enlighten us as to the best method of preventing unwanted teenage pregnancy , bearing in mind that young people will always form sexual relationships , regardless of the wishes of their parents or anyone else to the contrary . |
| 16 | It was I who needed to see him because of the broken nights , the strain involved in loss of sleep . ’ |
| 17 | The thought worried me until about the sixth month of my second pregnancy . |
| 18 | Sydney dealer Tim McCormick rates it as among the top two or three Australian private collections , along with Holmes à Court 's and corporate collections Wesfarmers and Smorgans . |
| 19 | The National Council for Voluntary Organisations said that while much of the SORP was appropriate to the needs of larger charities , it feared those with incomes of less than £100,000 a year may ignore it because of the extra administration , cost and complexity it involved . |
| 20 | However , the relatively high ( if lower than average ) proportion of people in the educational and health occupations regarding themselves as in the seasonal , temporary or casual category might result from many of them being engaged on a " temporary " basis but for an unspecified ( non-fixed ) period , perhaps to replace workers who are absent or until regular or permanent recruitments can be made . |
| 21 | The State then operates as an educational function , as Gramsci suggests , in this case , to educate us as to the worthy and the unworthy , the deserving and the undeserving . |
| 22 | We 're about to lose our coal industry and er we 're about to lose it because of the incompetent blind dogma er of this present government . |
| 23 | One could almost say that the second scenes really belong to the interludes which precede them though in the final act Britten adds to Grimes 's last monologue a reprise of the first interlude , whose function is to close out the musical form of the opera as a whole . |
| 24 | I 'm the drummer the dragon boats arise from an ancient chinese legend about a council official who drowned himself because of the poor service the people were getting . |
| 25 | It does n't have pockets but I liked it because of the red buttons . ’ |
| 26 | Because there are worries that it 's going to er , effect the outcome of this mad ref , referendum , you know they the farmers are sort of desperate and they think they need government help and they think they would n't get it because of the black government so |
| 27 | On the Government 's own figures , over 30% of those who would have received legal aid next year will lose it because of the proposed eligibility cuts . |
| 28 | I think I was so detached when I first had her because of the mental blockage , and the labour , and the birth was so messy and horrible . |
| 29 | do n't chase solvent misusers around or over-excite them because of the small risk of ‘ sudden sniffing death ’ . |