Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both the idea of politics as a collective activity , as the business of the citizens themselves , and the idea of politics as rational , regulated government as opposed to the arbitrary unpredictable rule of despots pointed in the direction of democracy . |
| 2 | The lizards seem to use their fringes to absorb heat while basking in the sun . |
| 3 | The restricted act of making an adaptation includes decompilation and infringes copyright unless allowed by the new decompilation right . |
| 4 | A literal copy of a computer program infringes copyright if made without the consent of the copyright owner . |
| 5 | Trolls are large and extremely repulsive monsters which cause fear as described in the Psychology rules . |
| 6 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 7 | It may be grouping error as discussed in the previous paragraph . |
| 8 | Two hundred and twenty of the 283 ( 78% ) patients assessed for non-operative treatment of their gall stones were suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy and have undergone treatment as shown in the Figure . |
| 9 | The Policyholders estimated value as stated in the Schedule shall be the maximum amount payable by the Corporation in respect of any claim for loss or damage . |
| 10 | The construction task will not end with this book , which does little more than lay the foundation for an approach that will celebrate geography as focusing on the ‘ question of place ’ within contemporary society . |
| 11 | Attempting to challenge and change the attitudes of individuals who feel discomfort or exhibit prejudice when faced with the possibility , or reality , of encountering people with disabilities is both a responsibility in my job and intrinsic to my personality . |
| 12 | If ‘ The Hollow Men ’ presents the degeneration of ritual , then Sweeney Agonistes while remaining aware of the decline attempts a reconstruction , but that reconstruction , like The Waste Land , sees humanity as trapped in the torturing cycle of sexual fertility . |
| 13 | Acts undertaken for another purpose and not in order to consent can constitute consent if undertaken in the belief that they will confer a right or impose a duty and if the fact that they are undertaken with such a belief is the reason for them having this result . |
| 14 | If Scotland is to maintain the highest level of research capability to match that of universities south of the Border , then research money must follow quality as judged by the same standards throughout the UK ( however imperfect these measurements are ) . |
| 15 | It sees government as faced with the same task of managing and controlling spending as any large business . |
| 16 | Rauh sees deixis as functioning between the poles of extralinguistic deixis and non-egocentric deixis . |
| 17 | The micro is used simply as a device for presenting information as requested by the teacher — an electronic variant of the blackboard or overhead projector which uses the computer 's talents , for example , to do graphs , display pictures , record and reproduce data , or perform calculations . |
| 18 | Thomas Cromwell expressed pleasure when told by the Lord Chief Justice in 1531 that proclamations were ‘ of as good effect as any law made by Parliament or otherwise ’ . |
| 19 | Dualism , as we have seen , can say nothing about how language creates a particular cognitive view of things , what Fowler calls MINDSTYLE as illustrated in the Golding passage . |
| 20 | The parsing process takes place as described in the previous chapter . |
| 21 | If the Scatter dice is an arrow the stone has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown on the Artillery dice . |
| 22 | If the Scatter dice is an arrow the Goblin has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 or 10″ from his aiming point as shown by the Artillery dice . |
| 23 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 24 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 25 | They do n't realize that you need to use finesse when dealing with the goons . ’ |
| 26 | ( Clause 10.01 and Sched ) A statement of the agreed profit sharing ratio as agreed between the partners at the outset in relation to the ordinary income of the firm . |
| 27 | Except when you are hobbling around dispatching shot after shot into the beautifully manicured lakes thoughtfully scattered around the landscape , leaving a trail of Band-Aids in your wake . |
| 28 | The report exonerates the NUS organisers and stewards who attempted to stop students crossing Westminster Bridge and approaching Parliament as prohibited by the Palace of Westminster 's Sessional Order . |
| 29 | On the facts before them , and contrary to what the defendants actually maintained , their purpose did not include the desire to protect property as required by the section . |
| 30 | Their task is nowhere better summed up than by Ernest Newman , one of the great music critics of his day , who rarely watched ballet until intrigued by the news that Massine was creating ballets to Tchaikovsky 's fifth Symphony ( Les Présages , London 1933 ) and to Brahms ' Fourth Symphony ( Choreartium , London 1933 ) . |