Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , legislation expressly intended to give effect to the first stage of Economic and Monetary Union has already been enacted , following the decision of the European Council in Madrid in June 1989 that that stage should begin on 1 July 1990 . |
| 2 | The new party aimed to present a viable alternative to the existing groupings but was widely expected to take part with the BNP in forming an anti-Awami League alliance . |
| 3 | If parents are dissatisfied , they are presumably expected to exert pressure on the teacher , the school or the LEA to obtain better results , or to seek to place the child in another school . |
| 4 | The company most committed to deliver cocoa to the market is Sucres et Denrees , the French commodity trading house . |
| 5 | Er and they are merely designed to draw attention to the broad corridors which |
| 6 | She would have to pass through the parlour to reach the kitchen , an arrangement which had shocked the pampered girl she had been , but it was obviously designed to conserve space in the small house . |
| 7 | ‘ The centre is now better positioned to take advantage of the increasing demand for training and it will be able to compete more effectively with similar commercial organisations , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Mr Evans said that the redundancies were regretted but believed that the measures taken would ensure a leaner , fitter company better positioned to take advantage of the recovery when it came . |
| 9 | He said : ’ I reserve my position on that because I have not only got to find money for the welfare changes . |
| 10 | Modigliani adamantly refused to admit paternity of the child . |
| 11 | Baker denied the allegations , but Koch 's allegations only served to increase tension between the two countries . |
| 12 | The ever-present shadow cast by Camilla merely served to throw fuel on the flames . |
| 13 | They set traps of silk across the flyways between the branches and so continued to take toll of the insect population . |
| 14 | The court ruled against the London Borough of Greenwich and nine local residents in their attempt to prevent Oxleas Wood , a Site of Special Scientific Interest in south-east London , from being compulsorily purchased to allow construction of the East London River Crossing [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 15 | It was to have been compulsorily purchased to make way for the final stage of the inner ring road until that scheme was dropped . |
| 16 | It could be an insurance plan so described to divert attention from the front-end and other charges which will absorb much , maybe all , of the first year 's ‘ savings , ’ and it could be five years or more , on any reasonable projection of performance , before you are likely to see even your original money back . |
| 17 | The authors have benefitted from a flying start , but have only chosen to run part of the way round the track . |
| 18 | However , English solicitors are best placed to take advantage of the market that the 1992 provision will offer ; the profession is arguably better placed than any other to advise international clients on the legal aspects of doing business in the ‘ global village ’ . |
| 19 | The Front is generally considered to lie south of the Kent Coalfield , within which there is no evidence of thrusting , and to link with the Midi Overthrust south of Cap Griz Nez across the Channel ( Wallace 1968 , 1983 ) . |
| 20 | The Commission went into recess on Aug. 14 and was not expected to hear evidence on the events in Boipatong until November . |
| 21 | The accounts are largely designed to provide information about the returns achieved on that risk investment . |
| 22 | As this was my first experience of squadron life , I quickly fell into its easy way , I was rather surprised to find I was already selected to play rugger for the squadron the following Sunday , and also went straight into the squadron tennis team . |
| 23 | In a miniature echo of Tsarist Russia , those of the Ascendancy who were dwindling , Goldsmith 's children , and Swift 's , were permitted to carry on fading ; those more vigorous were not made to feel welcome in the new Ireland of ‘ the Risen People ’ . |
| 24 | Pensions and benefits had not risen to keep pace with the rate of inflation , especially in the 1970s . |
| 25 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 26 | Vodafone Group Plc is making a rescue one-for-277 share exchange offer for cellular air time reseller Hawthorn Leslie Plc , valuing the struggling company at £2.9m , 1.54p a share against 2.5p in the market ; Vodafone has also conditionally agreed to procure redemption of the £16m convertible loan stock 2007 of Hawthorn Leslie held by Svenska Handelsbanken and repay outstanding loan facilities from Svenska , which brings the total cost of the transaction up to about £31.5m . |
| 27 | This shows that the actualization of the infinitive 's event is not what such sentences express , an analysis supported by Coates ( 1983 : 100 ) , who gives a similar argument for the meaning of can in her discussion of She can swim , and Palmer ( 1977 : 5 ) , who has pointed out that a sentence such as ( 12 ) is impossible because can " is not used to imply actuality in the past " : ( 12 ) * I ran fast and could catch the bus , Example ( 13 ) however is quite acceptable because it implies that the event did not take place , being seen merely as a possibility in the past ( i.e. a potentiality ) . |
| 28 | where force is not used to gain entry to the Home ; |
| 29 | The landlord was not bound to give credit for the value of the goods sold ( £309 ) , although it was proposing to do so . |
| 30 | She was glad , she had not wanted to meet Tommaso in the byre . |