Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames Water has promised to continue discussions with objectors over the next two to three years before applying for planning permission . |
| 2 | The Nuffield hospital says sessions on the scanner are allocated first according to urgency , and then according to who 's placed contracts for scans with the hospital . |
| 3 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 4 | The findings of the study , establishing a link between between pollution and chest and lung problems , has given support to communities throughout the country fighting for compensation . |
| 5 | Meryl , above , who revealed her singing talents in Postcards From The Edge , will play the role made famous by Gloria Swanson in the 1950 film . |
| 6 | Although bonuses on a life policy can not be realised until the termination of the policy , life companies will normally lend money to clients against the security of those bonuses , quickly and at very competitive rates of interest . |
| 7 | Well er they did them They made them f f fancy kind of things on the top like a They would maybe crisscrosses and things like that and m make a rounded thing like a Just like what some folk has a tassel on their bonnets , well we made that on the top of the stack . |
| 8 | We 've given money to organisations like the RSPB , Greenpeace , the Woodland Trust and Working Weekends on Organic Farms . ’ |
| 9 | An EC-EFTA meeting on Dec. 19 made progress in discussions on the European Economic Area or EEA ( the term now adopted in preference to " European Economic Space " or EES — see pp. 37134 ; 37535 ) , and it was anticipated that these EC-EFTA talks would now reach a conclusion by mid-1992 such that an EEA agreement could go through the various ratification processes and take effect on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 10 | Secondly , that transfer must have given rise to rights in the individual who makes it . |
| 11 | James Carreras , its salesman , would pitch projects to distributors on the basis of title and poster . |
| 12 | The got £1,800 in grants from the BMC . |
| 13 | If anybody got wind of strangers about the area , we sent the children back to their parents immediately . |
| 14 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 15 | Western potential for easing tension between parts of the former Soviet Union is easily exaggerated , but there is no harm in reminding Moscow and Kiev that their mutual hostility hardly creates a climate attractive to foreign aid and investment . |
| 16 | The file designer can measure the results of applying groups of updates to the file and make timing estimates based on the results of these tests . |
| 17 | The consultancy firm Pieda , headed by Donald Mackay , recommended against further expansion at the Queen Margaret site , partly because of the pressure of traffic , which already causes friction with residents in the Clermiston area . |
| 18 | The Fine Chemicals and Medicinals Groups continues to provide money to schools under the Small Grants Scheme ( up to the value of £500 ) for the purchase of equipment to carry out chemistry-related projects in schools . |
| 19 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ So far as this court is concerned it must be taken as settled that the proper construction to be given to [ s.14(2) of the Water Act 1973 ] is to exclude liability for escapes in the absence of negligence ’ . |
| 21 | Professor Birks also places reliance upon Queens of the River Steamship Co . |
| 22 | Omitting part of sentences on the assumption that an earlier sentence or the context will make the meaning clear is known as ellipsis . |
| 23 | Numerous hardline candidates reportedly failed to secure election as representatives to the 14th party congress . |
| 24 | Dr Hughes , who said UKOOA would urgently seek views of members on the detailed impact of the moves , pointed out that the changes could mean the industry as a whole losing from £300 million to £400 million in cash flow which could have been used for reinvestment over each of the next two years . |
| 25 | The second is that if , following the Francovich case , there was held to be a right to damages in such circumstances , the effect of requiring an undertaking from the council would be to impose liability in damages on the council instead of on the United Kingdom which , as I understand the position , would properly be the party so liable . |
| 26 | They also intend to encourage groups of inmates at the prisons they are visiting to hold their own fundraising events to further support their efforts . |
| 27 | FIFE councillors have attacked plans for changes to the region 's train timetables . |
| 28 | Insiders have estimated the company 's installed base of users in the tens of thousands . |
| 29 | The Teenact Theatre Company , based in York , exists to provide opportunities for youngsters in the performing arts . |
| 30 | Because LEAs are not required to provide data on units to the DES as they are , for example , in respect of special schools , it is impossible to say how many teachers work in them . |