Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Credit was given for goods sold in the ordinary way , he said , only because the vendor believed the purchaser would pay , and fear of imprisonment benefited no one but the tallyman who forced his credit on the unwary poor . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what response he has made to the complaints he has received about measurements relating to the head of a pint of beer in the current year . |
| 3 | If the pharmaceutical industry is really concerned about the economics of health care they would be better to curb the profits that they make through drugs sold to the NHS for which the charges are not infrequently excessive . |
| 4 | It was a rickety old piece of work ; presumably intended for servants banished from the regular stairs . |
| 5 | I passed through townships kissed like the Sleeping Beauty by the Prince . |
| 6 | The employee inventor argued that the sums received by the employer under the 1983 and 1985 contracts should be regarded as benefits deriving from the possession of a patent over the invention . |
| 7 | The Crusades may be regarded as wars fought in the name of ideology and religion . |
| 8 | It considered that the quotas must be regarded as limitations imposed by the institutions of the European Communities themselves on the right , created by article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 9 | ‘ in situations like the present the defendants ‘ are ’ the company in the sense that any offences committed by them in relation to the affairs of the company would be capable of being treated as offences committed by the company itself . |
| 10 | Detailed clauses ensured that ( i ) the President once elected could not be a member of a political party ; ( ii ) the military were denied seats in the Senate ; ( iii ) members of the Securitate and militia bodies guilty of repression and public officials guilty of abuses were not eligible for election ; ( iv ) candidates for election to the Assembly of Deputies had to be over 21 years of age and for the presidency and Senate over 30 , with no upper age limit ; ( v ) prisoners and the mentally handicapped were not eligible for election or to vote ; ( vi ) independent candidates were eligible to stand for the Senate and Assembly if supported by at least 250 electors and for the presidency if supported by 100,000 electors ; ( vii ) the votes of Romanian citizens abroad via diplomatic missions , consulates or trade agencies would be treated as votes cast in the city of Bucharest ; ( viii ) the financing of political parties from abroad was forbidden ; ( ix ) strict procedures would be applied to check and validate nominations ; ( x ) hours of polling would be from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m . |
| 11 | The Jubilee was celebrated by a District Rally held at the Guildhall in Cambridge and reflected the wide support the WEA continued to attract through speeches made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( R. A. Butler ) , the Provost of King 's College ( Sir John Sheppard ) , the Director of Education for Norfolk ( Dr. Lincoln Ralphs ) , the National Secretary of the WEA ( Harry Nutt ) and the former Chairman of the District ( Arthur Allen , MP for Wellingborough ) . |
| 12 | It was not until the Metropolitan Railway was linked to this line at Paddington , thus enabling through trains to run to the City . |
| 13 | When booking for events held at the Dome please help us by indicating which part of the auditorium you prefer . |
| 14 | The toppled heads of long forgotten deities and dignitaries observed his passing , the silence they had enjoyed for centuries broken by the rattling of his chains and bells . |
| 15 | Sometimes she stopped for hours to gaze across the sea , to peer between rocks , to watch an osprey ride the thermals . |
| 16 | On Feb. 7 Sharif announced a programme of economic reforms to encourage foreign investment and to compensate for losses resulting from the Gulf crisis . |
| 17 | To compensate for votes lost on the right , he needs to attract Communists horrified by the summer 's iconoclastic alliance , and has described the left-wing coalition as ‘ a crutch for New Democracy , a spare part ’ . |
| 18 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 19 | He was reported for remarks made to the Taffs Well official Gwyn Bowden after Cross Keys ' local derby against Newbridge three weeks ago . |
| 20 | Lake Rotoiti is quite unspoilt and we did a day 's walk right round it ; had lunch at a hut by the head of the lake and waded through rivers to get to the other track . |
| 21 | Many plants are so reliable that floral clocks have been designed with flowers arranged round the clock face in the order of their opening and closing times . |
| 22 | Significant ( p<0.001 ) suppressions of urinary PABA excretion were found in rats pretreated with antibiotics compared with the control group ( B1 , 4.9 ( 1.6 ) µg ; B2 , 31.0 ( 4.7 ) µg ; B3 , 40.9 ( 5.5 ) µg ) . |
| 23 | They fit into endcaps attached to the frame and the sail in order to force the sail into its ‘ Rogallo ’ cones . |
| 24 | Pompeian decoration features in ceramics , glass and metal from the 19th century as the public craved objects decorated with designs discovered at the excavations of the ancient Italian city between 1860–1875 . |
| 25 | Diets for autoclaving are supplemented with nutrients to compensate for the inevitable degradation that occurs . |
| 26 | Socialising with passengers goes with the job , Doctor . |
| 27 | The movement resolved into men running towards the trees . |
| 28 | All these meals are grouped into sections based on the fibre-rich food which forms the main ingredient of the meal . |
| 29 | Evidence that illustrates this point come from investigations aimed at the notion of ‘ learned safety ’ . |
| 30 | All the research programmes have come from approaches made to the Unit and have involved extensive discussions , sometimes over a long period , but not for bureaucratic reasons . |