Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for those localised unions with no such connections , it was not an uncommon experience for the organiser to decamp with the members ' subscriptions . |
| 2 | e.g. tenant has installed a fitted kitchen — this would be covered for the perils listed under the ‘ Insurance for your liability as a tenant ’ section of the policy . |
| 3 | The UN is also being asked to garner Iraq 's oil revenues and use a portion to pay compensation for the damage done during the occupation of Kuwait and the war that followed . |
| 4 | In the absence of such a clause the buyer would have to prove for the damage suffered under the normal common law rules . |
| 5 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 6 | This is not entirely correct , as the only compensation would have been for the damage caused by the armed robbery . |
| 7 | The question was whether the defendants were liable for the damage caused by the squatters or whether the squatters ' actions amounted to a novus actus interveniens . |
| 8 | There are many memories which are too painful , or too wicked , for the patient to remember without the aid of psychoanalysis , and these are said to be repressed . |
| 9 | If it is warm enough for the patient to sit in the garden , he may enjoy just watching all the garden life . |
| 10 | The regression alone will probably have raised enough points for the patient to consider during the ensuing period without him having any other work to do . |
| 11 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 12 | While Archbishop Reynolds and some other bishops and royal clerks colluded with the king , the lower clergy presented stout resistance , precisely as they had done in 1294 when they were also invited to pay for the tune played by the prelates . |
| 13 | The doctor explained to her how hard it sometimes was for the sperm to coincide with the eggs ; she just had to continue to keep the Shah interested . |
| 14 | It would certainly be improper for the governors to go into the medical or educational case history on which the call for provision had been based . |
| 15 | The agreement was clearly intended to be of short duration and could have been secured by a lease for a fixed term , say five or ten years with power for the landlord to determine before the expiry of that period for the purposes of the road widening . |
| 16 | That if the rent hereby reserved or any part thereof shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the same shall have become due ( whether formally demanded or not ) or if any covenant on the part of the Tenant herein contained shall not be performed or observed or if the Tenant shall become bankrupt or enter into any composition with his creditors it shall be lawful for the Landlord to re-enter upon the premises or any point thereof in the name of the whole and thereupon this demise shall absolutely determine . |
| 17 | To create a pleasant landscape experience for the motorist travelling along the route . |
| 18 | That 's compensation , is it for the tenants living in the flats ? |
| 19 | In the spadefoot , the intense competition among males for females means that some over-anxious males do not wait for the females to get into the pond but instead waylay them on the way to the breeding ground ; the pair then arrive at the pond already in amplexus . |
| 20 | The 6 x 6 ½ ft tempera-on-wood painting was commissioned around 1485 by the Florentine Silk Weavers Guild for the chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross in the church of the Dominican complex , famed for its frescoes by Fra Angelico . |
| 21 | AT&T blamed a downturn in demand for the products made at the Irish plants and increasing competitiveness in international markets . |
| 22 | Added to these was another important element , for the period of the festival was a time of licence : this was a necessary outlet in the community for the tensions repressed after the long period of hard physical toil . |
| 23 | Before starting the long retreat we waited till dark for the sun to go off the slopes , for the stones and avalanche slopes to re-freeze , and possibly because the sight was too horrible to contemplate . |
| 24 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 25 | And then , at 4 am one pitch-dark morning , I found myself where all along I had planned to be : standing on a steep hillside on a clifftop , waiting for the sun to rise on the world 's first dawn of the day . |
| 26 | The plan was for the Unit to reform in the middle of this year . |
| 27 | Anyone who wishes to contribute must catch the Chairman 's eye and the usual practice then is for the Chairman to call on the persons in the order in which he has seen them . |
| 28 | We believe that there is still room for the hotel to expand into the market for 30–90 delegate conferences in the Chester area and recommend , therefore , that consideration be given to developing the Dee Hall as a conference site . |
| 29 | Not only is this figure certain to rise as spending on ‘ Cohesion ’ increases , but there are even calls , led by Germany , for the proportion paid by the United Kingdom to be increased further . |
| 30 | This paradox is strongly reminiscent of Bradleyan idealism , and to understand the nature of Four Quartets it is appropriate to recall what Eliot as a student considered to be one of the central principles of Bradley 's thought : that , for the sceptic faced with the possibility of acquiring only relative truth , coherence and comprehensiveness were important for their own sake . |