Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the tax computation this amount is added back as a disallowed expense and hence the company obtains no tax relief . |
| 2 | Even if an algorithm embodied knowledge that perhaps the training set should be transformed to polar coordinates , still the algorithm would have to search a 2-dimensional continuum of possible centres . |
| 3 | Voted time and again the world 's best airport in business traveller polls . |
| 4 | While it had received some decent Mk 2 air-conditioned stock , the maximum speed of its fleet of diesel locomotives was 90/95mph ; average city-to-city speeds compared unfavourably with other parts of the InterCity network , and initially BR replied to local pleas that HSTs could not provide the answer , implying stagnation until perhaps the route was electrified and received APTs that could take the curvatures in their stride . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a film about boy meets girl but only the audience can decide if boy actually gets girl , ’ said director Bob Bejan . |
| 6 | These cause trouble because often the speller does not recognise that words can be made up of different bits brought together . |
| 7 | The LANtastic network is DOS based with additional Windows support software and so the DOS side of things must be up and running first . |
| 8 | People tend to avoid responsibility and particularly the responsibility of office . |
| 9 | Hand-outs usually give information and therefore the information must be accurate and set out in such a way that it can be easily read and understood . |
| 10 | The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is . |
| 11 | If the last two decades have been just a trifle one-sided , before that the competition was excellent , with first one side holding sway and then the other , which is as it should be . |
| 12 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 13 | Acquiring his first proper guitar at the age of ten , Ry first discovered bluegrass and then the country blues players : the Rev. Gary Davis ( who gave Ry lessons ) , Lightnin' Hopkins , Sonny Terry , Brownie McGhee and Son House , plus Howlin' Wolf , Muddy Waters and Sleepy John Estes . |
| 14 | He is alert to all the means at his disposal , and employs parody and even the stream of consciousness when it suits him . |
| 15 | The long tradition that regards consent as either the foundation or a foundation of legitimate authority displays two separate strands of thought . |
| 16 | It very much involves participation and therefore the appeal for the broader level in terms of the public is less important for those groups that actually participate . |
| 17 | The rescript is of great utility in ensuring that the honour of a happily concluded marriage and indeed the faith of common children should not deceive a father who had thought better of the mother : therefore the emperor , most provident and most devoted to the cause of law , when he observed that the words of a trust were lacking , ruled by rescript that this expression should be treated as a trust . |
| 18 | However , the letter contained information that only the killer could have known , he said . |
| 19 | She invites Hercule Poirot and his assistant Captain Hasting to visit her home , End House and there the mystery begins . |
| 20 | The bells in the shrine have stopped ringing and gradually the drumming abates and the vibrations are stilled . |
| 21 | The argument that increased non-bank financial intermediation will tend to raise velocity and therefore the amount of spending that can be undertaken with a given stock of money , is simple enough if we once recognise in velocity the importance of the demand for money . |
| 22 | Should the strings become entwined then the first protagonist to shout ‘ Strings ! ’ had strike and so the conker bashing went on until one split . |
| 23 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 24 | The TUC was also concerned that the retention of older workers would block promotion and thus the wage increments of the young ( Green 1963 ) . |
| 25 | He stripped off his trousers with unrushed ease , revealing one strong , muscled leg and then the other . |
| 26 | But if some should be in food , the maintenance of a cold temperature can do a lot to minimise growth and thereafter the risk of food poisoning The Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations 1990 requires that , from 1 April 1993 , most short life food must be kept at 5°C or colder after manufacture and throughout distribution and display . |
| 27 | Here , it is necessary not only to highlight the diversity of ‘ managers ’ influencing housing but also the fact that key ‘ gatekeepers ’ tend to represent institutions or public bodies . |
| 28 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 29 | Now that 's something that erm particularly that last point , that audit committees that are established in most efficient companies want to look at and I come back to the point that audit ought to be looked at as something that assists companies in efficiency as well as a mechanism for detecting fraud and yet the government does n't appear to be examining that . |
| 30 | This can easily cause anorexia and finally the demise of the stressed subject . |