Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 2 | For some time airlines , particularly British Airways , have been bringing strong pressure to bear within the CAA 's Finance Advisory Committee ( FAC ) to reverse the present charging scheme , whereby 97.6 per cent of its AOC income comes from the Variable Charges , in favour of the majority of income being derived from the Fixed Charges element , which would then reflect the actual expenditure of effort by the CAA in respect of each company . |
| 3 | Here the management offers classic style combined with the best in Italian gracious living . |
| 4 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 5 | Tachograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 6 | The accusation is likely to become a test case for one of the greyest of grey areas in Silicon Valley : can a company stop its employees from forming competitive breakaway companies using technical know-how gained on the original job when , as often as not , the ideas are in their heads rather than stolen documents or pieces of equipment . |
| 7 | Feminist analyses have documented the effects of this : the huge if hidden economic contribution made by the unpaid labour of carers and the financial , emotional and physical costs to the individual . |
| 8 | In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime . |
| 9 | Among the ideas under consideration are : — changes to bus lanes in a bid to speed up services ; — giving buses priority at traffic lights ; — contraflow bus lanes allowing public transport to travel against the main flow of traffic in a one way street ; — measures to protect bus stops from careless motorists who park illegally . |
| 10 | ‘ Just rumours about a highly placed British official defecting to the Fast . ’ |
| 11 | A common situation where such an obligation of confidence is likely to arise is in subcontracting arrangements where the prime contractor supplies detailed information relating to the products which are to be built to his subcontractor . |
| 12 | The move , by the Paisley area 's procurator-fiscal , James Friel , comes after witnesses came forward to support fresh evidence uncovered by The Scotsman last June on the tenth anniversary of the man 's conviction . |
| 13 | Sequent says its multiprocessing implementation of NT will deliver linear performance increases as the CPU count rises . |
| 14 | The offences were of varying degrees of gravity and the appellants have been given different release dates under the statutory provisions which have been under examination in these appeals . |
| 15 | Smith and Wesson is owned by F H Tomkins PLC , a highly regarded British conglomerate quoted on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 16 | The department has strong research links with the Centre for Speech Technology Research and the Human Communication Research Centre . |
| 17 | There the European Court , consistently with the opinion of the Advocate General ( see p. 663 ) , declined to regulate the manner in which the national court should decide whether to grant interim relief following upon the European Court 's ruling on the main question concerned with the power of the national court to grant relief in the circumstances of the case . |
| 18 | It has happened that individuals who have not been contacted by MAS have become aware that the client 's business is being marketed and have telephoned MAS asking to speak to the manager handling the sale . |
| 19 | Initial findings of a survey on what were deemed unnecessary compliance costs in the direct tax system found that the collection of National Insurance Contributions was a major concern , the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales said . |
| 20 | The database listing facilities can be used to provide typed status updates to the client . |
| 21 | 8 ) , ever since the end of the eighteenth century most of the movements of social criticism have been based upon a theory of society ; and on the other side , every major social theory which attempts to provide a new intellectual framework for understanding political life embodies at the same time a particular orientation to the important political issues of the age , whether in the form of Marx 's allegiance to the working-class movement , Max Weber 's identification with the German bourgeoisie and nationalism , or Durkheim 's commitment to the ideas of the Third Republic in France . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's disobedient , naughty and has a terrible temper ’ describes a range of behaviour that has different meaning according to the parent 's expectations of how the child should behave . |
| 23 | Foreign ownership goes back just as far , in the sense that individuals such as Waldorf Astor and Max Aitken ( Lord Beaverbrook ) used foreign capital to buy into the English press . |
| 24 | Metrocast already needs frequency-agile paging to cope with the fragmented US market , and this is now being extended for British businessmen who travel to the States . |
| 25 | But what really made it impossible for anyone to convict me was when , to my astonishment , a frail , bent old man appeared in the witness box . |
| 26 | Charges are 2 ½%; management fee — this covers free tax reporting at the year end and quarterly valuation and investment reviews — and 6% as a front end charge . |
| 27 | How do these different ways of understanding contemporary racism relate to the ideologies of reading which were applied to the study texts ? |
| 28 | With the Sim-Fix it is unnecessary to punch extra fixing points in the slate and the strap is quickly and easily nailed to the batten with three optional fixing points , making it possible to use it with any size of slate . |
| 29 | The government is also in the process of acquiring additional television trans-mitters in the coming months to expand television broadcasting to all parts of the country and , thus , meet the educational and cultural needs of the population . |
| 30 | When the farmer changes his land from pasture to arable , he has additional outlay to make in the form of farm machinery , equipment , and so on . |