Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case only confined for the policemen the inequities of the legal system : justice depends on who the prisoner gets . |
| 2 | He did not comment upon the subjects the fathers were to discuss . |
| 3 | Even this sum was comfortably exceeded by the sums the Government received in VAT on repairs to historic buildings . |
| 4 | On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable . |
| 5 | So again it 's just thinking about the eyes the eye the beginning . |
| 6 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 7 | For the next eighteen months Amery toured prisoner-of-war camps , seeking to recruit a Legion of St George — unromantically renamed by the Germans the British Free Corps — to fight alongside the Germans against the Russians and save Europe from Bolshevism . |
| 8 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 9 | Company law also assigns to the members the ultimate right to make decisions in certain key areas , for example with regard to changes in the corporate constitution or increases in capital , again in order to ensure that the business is run in accordance with their , and not the directors ' , interests . |
| 10 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 11 | The intervention also won for the powers the right to station soldiers in Beijing 's legation quarter to protect their nationals . |
| 12 | This now hands to the developers the authority to destroy a substantial portion of ancient woodland , currently a refuge for deer , badger , pheasant and other wildlife species . |
| 13 | I would n't care to offer advice to gamblers , because I 'm sure that people who bet on horses do things other than purely look at the odds the horse if offered at . |
| 14 | ‘ Davey was really hauled over the coals the following Monday . ’ |
| 15 | I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to . |
| 16 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 17 | Be that as it may , the major work of planning for the change to public ownership was certainly delegated to the men the Labour Government intended to appoint to the Central Authority . |