Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] of the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 2 | The experiments reviewed in this section do little to advance out understanding of the mechanisms involved ( often important control conditions are lacking ) but they do allow the conclusion that there is no fundamental difference between the so-called perceptual and motor test tasks in their susceptibility to acquired equivalence/distinctiveness effects . |
| 3 | Only when the shipper parts with his original is he deemed to have given up control of the goods . |
| 4 | Also her parents hated John and Yoko , switching off Top of the Pops , saying they were sacrilegious : Christ , you know it ai n't easy ! became her silent song . |
| 5 | The international treaty is aimed at saving the Earth 's ozone layer and commits member countries to phasing out production of the gases that destroy the layer . |
| 6 | Timothy Sainsbury , the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , on March 7 insisted in the British House of Commons that the UK had no intention of giving up sovereignty of the islands and that the issue was not on the political agenda . |
| 7 | The government took over administration of the provinces of Tucumán and Tierra del Fuego which were affected by political unrest and economic problems . |
| 8 | Open account : Under this payment method the exporter gives up control of the goods to the importer and receives debt settlement at a later date under the contract 's terms . |
| 9 | The transfer may become null and void , as here , or the certificate may not be renewed , as in Miller , but nothing that can happen to the transfer or transferee will ever revive the right of a man who , ex hypothesi , has removed or yielded up possession of the premises to which the certificate relates . " |
| 10 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |