Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More important , it was subversive of the control and influence over events which Parliament sought to exercise that the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 2 | But the pathology failed to develop and the ambulance was never required . |
| 3 | The trust received UK source income and the taxpayer sought to argue that the arrangement was wholly outside Part XV because there was a foreign resident settlor and a foreign trust . |
| 4 | Section 6 describes the offline system and the safety checks made to ensure that the integrity of modules is maintained when they are offlined . |
| 5 | In general , however , the cases tend to view that the disclosure of iniquity is a just cause for breaking an obligation of confidentiality . |
| 6 | ‘ the facts of the present case appear to establish that the rogue assumed all the rights of an owner when he took or received the watch and ring from the plaintiff . |
| 7 | Such regular joint patterns appear to develop when the centres of contraction are evenly spaced . |
| 8 | Whitlock tried to explain but the policeman 's grip tightened on the revolver and he repeated the order . |
| 9 | The Act also includes a Scheme of Operations designed to ensure that the construction of the tunnel produces a minimum adverse environmental impact in Kent . |
| 10 | Simile and metaphor , then , serve to form a bridge between the experience a writer wants to convey and the reader 's own experience . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State went on to say that he was concerned that the letter from Grand Metropolitan Estates tried to imply that the orders had forced the company into the action it was taking against the tenant . |
| 12 | In short , a producer relying on this defence needs to show that the defect was not discoverable at the time he supplied the product . |
| 13 | According to Pedro de Cieza 's account of 1554 : If Pedro failed to appreciate that the Indians were motivated by emulation as well as by piety in accumulating gold and then sacrificing it in burials , he was well aware of what the practice meant for his fellow countrymen . |
| 14 | The action sought to emphasize that the conflict , in which more than 3,000 people had died in faction fighting since January 1987 , was a national , and not simply a local problem . |
| 15 | The solicitor acting for the College sought to argue that the Rybak case did not help Mr Sen as he had also acted on the advice of a solicitor . |
| 16 | The Association sought to show that the restrictions in the agreement were indeed indispensable to the promotion of technical or economic progress . |
| 17 | The defendant has to show that the plaintiff assumed the legal risk of injury in circumstances where the defendant 's act would otherwise amount to negligence . |
| 18 | With the onset of summer , the snow starts to melt and the mountain goat begins to lose its thick , shaggy winter coat . |
| 19 | Yet today , when a flustered and obviously intelligent man in spectacles starts to argue that the link , say , between radioactive emissions and leukaemia clusters is not yet proven , we can see the untruth in him , the wads of tainted cash tumbling from his lab-coat pockets . |
| 20 | No wonder no-one at Siemens Nixdorf wants to hazard when the company might return to profit . |
| 21 | The Port of Belfast now handles more than 55% of Northern Ireland 's seaborne trade and the Harbour Commissioners feel that this success is due in no small part to the investment programme which saw £25 million invested over the last five years in a modernisation programme designed to ensure that the Port of Belfast can offer its customers the most up to date , cost effective cargo handling facilities . |
| 22 | Meredith endeavoured to explain that the play had been written long before the carnage of the First World War , let alone the Second . |
| 23 | " only result seemed to shew that the parents of Stockport families preferred a cheap commercial education to a more expensive higher intellectual one and that the latter was necessarily more costly and that the Grammar School fees could not possibly be reduced to the level of the Technical School fees , that School being subsidised by Excise Duties and Government Grants to the amount of double the fees received from Scholars . " |
| 24 | A purported intermediary of the President seemed to think that the Jews could be landed for $1,000,000 . |
| 25 | Thus research tends to show that the Stock Exchange exhibits weak and semi-strong forms of efficiency . |
| 26 | On the one hand , studies in which parents were trained to stay right out of brotherly and sisterly quarrels seem to indicate that the frequency of such arguments can be reduced — particularly if ignoring quarrels is combined with rewarding the children for desisting from conflict . |
| 27 | However , most English speakers seem to feel that the pitch movement in this case is the same as that in the previous two examples ; it can be said that there is a parallel with rhyming . |
| 28 | That is what would happen if the matter were put to the House , but the Opposition seem to think that the matter could be resolved overnight . |
| 29 | It is true that this procedure can force a minister to answer for what his department intends to do but the Commons are denied any real measure of control . |
| 30 | Only when this phantasy is well on the way to realization as a practical mode of government does the citizen begin to notice that the state 's omnipresence means the total bureaucratization and control of life , that its omniscience dictates the need for total state surveillance , and that its omnipotence can only come about as a consequence of the total impotence of its subjects . |