Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | : To determine the effectiveness of the definitional overlap technique using definitions extracted from the OALD . |
| 2 | : To determine the effectiveness of the definitional overlap technique using definitions extracted from the Collins English Dictionary . |
| 3 | In individual cases catching criminals depended on the usually less than willing readiness of the village constables to act ; since they were chosen by vote annually from middling tradesmen and farmers they had little hope of dealing with many common incidents unless the rest of the community felt sufficiently outraged to support them . |
| 4 | Welcome back : Attempts to encourage otters to return to the River Thames are being aided by a man-made home which has been designed specially for them . |
| 5 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 6 | Margaret Wilson , who chairs the residents ' organisation , has written to the licensing board to encourage members to vote for the proposals . |
| 7 | Members of Killynure House Committee are presently making house to house calls soliciting residents support for the petition . |
| 8 | In 1135 , Robert de Percy is named as donor of the church , and the churchyard contains gravestones belonging to the Percy family , who originally owned the village and had Sutton Hall as a hunting lodge . |
| 9 | The parties made submissions based on the legislative antecedents of the Act currently in force . |
| 10 | Furthermore , a well-developed system of primary care means that GPs can act as gatekeepers filtering demands made on the more expensive specialist and hospital services . |
| 11 | Fund-holding GPs in the first year were less afraid to switch contracts to better units or consultants , could make more flexible contracts , demand more attention , and use their funds to encourage consultants to come to the surgery rather than rely on patients to go to outpatients in the hospital . |
| 12 | Every reader contains a full-colour dictionary explaining words used in the story . |
| 13 | Every reader contains a full-colour dictionary explaining words used in the text . |
| 14 | But Labour policy is hostile to such personal effort ; Labour wants pensioners to depend on the State . |
| 15 | The first six paragraphs described events leading to the setting up of the Select Committee and the reasons for the choice of witnesses . |
| 16 | A popular feature will surely be musician Peter Gabriel 's ‘ US ’ project for which he has commissioned 11 international artists of hugely diverse styles to create images inspired by the tracks on his new album ‘ US ’ ; amongst these are British artists David Mach and Andrew Goldsworth , German Rebecca Horn , Israeli Sculptor Zadock Ben David , and Zush who exists in his own self-created state of Evrugo . |
| 17 | On March 14 President Vaclav Havel , who had come to Bratislava to urge Slovaks to remain within the federation , was physically threatened by demonstrators . |
| 18 | The scenes of Jurassic or Cretaceous landscapes in picture books show dinosaurs swarming over the landscape , giving the impression that we know the whole story . |
| 19 | The figure includes loans sold to the Co-operative Credit Purchasing Company , a loan-buying company set up by the banks themselves . |
| 20 | Joseph Dods has begun setting up clubs in County Durham schools to help youngsters learn about the natural world around them . |
| 21 | These precedents encouraged lawyers to talk of the immemorial law of the Salian Franks under which women were excluded from the succession . |
| 22 | The Commissioner of Inland Revenue confirmed assessments to tax on the profits arising from the taxpayer 's sub-licensing operations and the taxpayer appealed to the Board of Review . |
| 23 | It had twin Vickers K aircraft machine guns mounted at the rear and a single one in front . |
| 24 | Current research includes projects funded under the ESRC Programme on Information and Communication Technologies ( PICT ) , projects on social structure in Scotland , and the ESRC Regional Research Laboratory . |
| 25 | Courtaulds Protective Coatings is investing heavily in research to devise products based on the Ecotech initiative which promotes the increased use of environmentally sensitive coatings . |
| 26 | 9 T. S. Eliot 's visiting card accompanying flowers sent to the author in Guy 's Hospital . |
| 27 | In order not to obstruct gangways or take up rack space , dry powder systems would have to be designed with extensive pipework feeding nozzles located in the racks or gangways from a centralised , pressurised storage unit . |
| 28 | Erosion on the main section facing east and lengthening to the south resulted in the pattern of south-west trending ridges preserved between the lighthouse and Stonyditch Point . |
| 29 | Despite the government 's resolution of Aug. 11 to pay up to 12,000 roubles per tonne for standard quality grain in an attempt to persuade producers to sell to the state , only a quarter of the target figure for state reserves had been delivered by mid-August . |
| 30 | We would also like to suggest that interested readers attend meetings organised by the RSC Chemometrics Group or UK Chemometrics Discussion Group , which are regularly advertised in Chemistry in Britain . |