Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC engineers are divided between hacking a Scandinavian proposal to standardise across Europe on eight-channel sound in a gaggle of different languages or , as many want , to go for fewer channels carrying the kind of sound quality available on the new digital discs that are now in British shops . |
| 2 | There has been exposed for all eyes to see the lack of military ability of ‘ the most brilliant strategist of all time ’ , that is , our megalomaniac corporal . |
| 3 | My own company has for many years had the ambition to have our business spread in rough proportion to the pattern of chemical demand in the world market . |
| 4 | Sally Harrower , Issue Hall , has for some years entered the Edinburgh to St Andrews cycle ride in aid of Lepra . |
| 5 | In 1912 the firm amalgamated with many others to form the British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. a subsidiary of the A.P.C.M. |
| 6 | It allows you to work within those paragraphs to achieve the best effect . |
| 7 | ln Britain , the pattern of televised sport has in many respects followed the natural preferences of the ‘ amateur ’ establishment . |
| 8 | underlined the distinction between a common law agency which has in some cases distracted the court , and the real question which arises in cases where the issue is equitable relief . |
| 9 | This negative attitude towards Palestinian women in particular , and Arab women in general , originates from the Western colonial attitude which has in some ways permeated the Western feminist movement . |
| 10 | stake in National Power or PowerGen to bring pressure to bear on those companies to reduce the development of gas-fired stations , they might end up in a United Kingdom court for breaking United Kingdom company law . |
| 11 | The authorities relating to those provisions demonstrated the desirability at the very least of the need to adjourn for fresh hearing when a bench of two disagree . |
| 12 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 13 | The UGT has on several occasions accused the CCOO of calling politically motivated strikes , aimed at disrupting the government 's economic policy . |
| 14 | The union reform that was won by these workers benefited the working class in general . |
| 15 | This point is being stressed by many organisations representing the interests of people with physical , mental or educational disabilities . |
| 16 | A range of special events , climaxing in a series of Grand Locomotive Cavalcades on the West Somerset Railway , have been organised by both railways to mark the 150 year connection of Taunton the national railway network . |
| 17 | Some notable examples of success to date include improvements to the terephthalic acid plants ; the development of new surfactants ; major extensions to the resins and acrylics ranges using innovatory polymer systems ; fibres with better finishes ; and work on the hot topic of the replacement of chlorofluorocarbons , claimed by some scientists to damage the earth 's ozone layer . |
| 18 | HP has by all accounts spearheaded the firm 's move into the Unix world , according to Mike Maunder , general manager of CA 's mid-range products , ’ HP is the powering force behind our move into Unix ’ . |
| 19 | Prior to the elections , parties formed of former Communists blamed the current poor economic situation on the Solidarity government , accusations described as " slanderous " by government spokesman Andrzej Zarebski . |
| 20 | The high rewards built into these positions provide the necessary inducement and generate the required motivation for such performance . |
| 21 | Climatic changes bringing more snow would result in more icebergs to maintain the balance ; less snow would cause a reduction of the ice-sheet and a greater exposure of bedrock . |
| 22 | Afro-Caribbean communities in the UK are stereotyped as economic underachievers whilst the same ‘ ethnic group ’ in the USA are often described by the dangerous caricature of ‘ Black Jews ’ because of their economic successes , with attempts made in both cases to trace the success/failure to the cultural proclivities of the group itself . |
| 23 | No attempt has been made in these pages to measure the achievement of those 28 ministers whose names are recorded hereafter . |
| 24 | The term ‘ waste ’ applied to such areas gives the wrong impression , and the tidy enclosed appearance of many of these former landscapes today makes it difficult to appreciate their importance to earlier people . |
| 25 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
| 26 | must in its pure form express unconditional allegiance to orthodoxy and autocracy ; everything which passes beyond these bounds represents the admixture of alien concepts , the play of fantasy , or a mask behind which the ill-intentioned try to ensnare inexperience and entice dreamers . |
| 27 | The threat of ozone destruction should peak in about seven years ' time , according to some scientists studying the problem . |
| 28 | WELL done to these readers entering The Hall Of Fame . |
| 29 | Ron as far as the Saudi claim is concerned you will be aware that I have written to all regions explaining the reason why we have not presented a claim , no other union has presented a claim in British Coal and if we do present a claim at this point in time , I 'll tell you what the answer will be . |
| 30 | The mayor appealed to both sides to spare the city 's Turkish-era centre as terrified residents prepared for a long night in cellar shelters . |