Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 2 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what support he gives or plans to give to the design museum . |
| 3 | Both parties need the right to end the agreement if the other goes bankrupt or is forced into liquidation , or ceases to operate in the music business . |
| 4 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 5 | If the character currently scanned contains the value v , then the vth entry in a specified table is extracted ; the scan terminates or continues depending on the value of this vth entry . |
| 6 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) An authorised person under the FSA who breaches or fails to comply with the Code in certain respects can be called to account by his SRO or RPB and may , in extreme cases , have his membership withdrawn . |
| 8 | We know that the Labour party is committed to an increase in child benefit and pensions , covered by its eight new or increased taxes , a point that has featured in the debate . |
| 9 | The management of patients who mutilate themselves while in a disturbed state will include treatment of the disorder that has led to the disturbance and will invariably have to be initiated in the psychiatric inpatient setting . |
| 10 | It is this emphasis on controlling the money supply that has led to the title ‘ monetarist ’ . |
| 11 | Italy is one of Iran 's main trading partners and had until now been largely spared the violence that has led to the deaths of dozens of opponents of the Tehran government opponents in other European cities since the 1979 revolution . |
| 12 | Is it not an appalling indictment of 13 years of this Government 's economic policy that yesterday one of Her Majesty 's coroners described the shortage of beds in one of Britain 's principal hospitals — a shortage that has led to the death of a pensioner from Southwark — as appalling due to a 2 per cent . |
| 13 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 14 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 15 | After a few minutes , use a slotted spoon to remove the beige scum that has risen to the surface . |
| 16 | Apple Computer , the Cinderella company that has risen from the backyard to a worldwide name in six years , is going to give a computer to every public and private school in the state — that 's about 10 000 computers with a retail value of almost $20 million . |
| 17 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
| 18 | The English that has developed in the country — certainly its spoken version — will not be readily comprehensible to those from outside the sub-continent . |
| 19 | Hansen ( 1980 ) makes it very clear that signed Danish is not the same as the Signed English that has developed in the USA , and she believes it to be a more flexible and efficient natural language form . |
| 20 | Father Giles reflected on the Beatitudes — their original meaning and the meaning that has developed in the course of time , up to the present day . |
| 21 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 22 | The real genie that has emerged from the bottle of a changing Europe is nationalism . |
| 23 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 24 | One that has emerged from the silence is the Model 735 which , like the other models , is expected to use a 99MHz version of HP 's PA 7100 chip . |
| 25 | Another consideration that has arisen from the work on AI and , in particular , expert systems is that of the legal implications . |
| 26 | Epidemiology presents many interesting problems to the scientist , and the controversy that has arisen around the effects of lead in petrol on the health of children highlights many of the problems and difficulties in this field . |
| 27 | Since this is exceptional fate for most of them , we are never likely to know from fossil evidence anything approaching the complete range of land creatures that has existed in the past . |
| 28 | Entering such a store is to enter an intriguing musty lair containing rows of cheap clothes in either blue or olive green , and where you will be greeted by a stab in the eye with an ice-axe that has hung behind the door since the 60s . |
| 29 | A chance find by Major Luigi Robusto of the local Carabinieri while diving off Punta del Serrone near Brindisi on 19 July started an underwater excavation that has run through the summer . |
| 30 | There are two important points to note about the economic project that has run alongside the exercises in political legitimation in the imagined space of the inner city . |