Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if Shilton , inevitably cautious in his 41st year , is now most likely to be found out by teasing centres ( never mind the ‘ hand of God ’ , he should have been quicker , more positively to the ball than Diego Maradona in Mexico four years ago ) , his reliable and spectacular shot-stopping in Poland emphasised glaring inadequacies stemming from the grossly misguided philosophy that continues to gain ground in the Football League . |
| 2 | THE OIL slick that threatens to cause havoc in the Arabian Gulf over the next few weeks comes from a spill less than one tenth the size of a supertanker 's cargo . |
| 3 | Where is the accountability in a policy that fails to take account of the number of people living in a house , and leaves businesses without a vote and at the mercy of local authorities ? |
| 4 | The company alleges that the information came from a stolen document , and wants to take action against the source . |
| 5 | Compagnie Generale des Eaux SA said on Friday that its wholly-owned General Cable Ltd unit has acquired South Yorkshire Cablevision Ltd from Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's Pactel Cable UK Ltd for an undisclosed sum : South Yorkshire Cablevision holds cable TV franchises in Doncaster and Rotherham , passing 192,000 homes and General Cable already has 100,000 cable TV and telephone subscribers in a number of franchises in Britain ; it is very active in Bradford and plans to start work by the end of the year linking Sheffield subscribers . |
| 6 | The exhibition will include paintings , drawings , photography , prints , pottery and ceramics , sculpture and woodcarving , calligraphy and collage , and aims to raise money for the Education Centre and the Community Trust . |
| 7 | The use of white wallpaper mounted on dark backing paper gives good contrast and helps to draw attention to the material displayed . |
| 8 | Physical activity assists body function by improving circulation and muscle tone ; exercise promotes deeper breathing and helps to prevent stasis in the gastro-intestinal tract . |
| 9 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 10 | The group aims to provide customers with a path through the maze of vastly differing vendors ' licence agreements , and hopes to sell Advance on the back of this activity . |
| 11 | According to SQL Access Group chairman Jeff Balboni , the organisation is aware of the discontentment and hopes to soothe disappointment with the publication of these first few specifications . |
| 12 | It recognises that these courses will give fresh impetus to the status and quality of Religious Education provision for S3/4 pupils in Scottish Secondary Schools , and wishes to pay tribute to the work of the members of the Joint Working Group and the Central Support Group in this regard . |
| 13 | If the predator pounces and manages to catch hold of the tail , it quickly breaks away from the reptile 's body and , even in its severed condition , continues to writhe and twist , either on the ground or in the mouth of the triumphant killer . |
| 14 | Across on South Stack , the difficult overhanging wall of Rosebud sports about as many jugs as a pool ball , and continues to join Primate near the step around the arête . |
| 15 | Prejudice against deaf drivers nevertheless persists and continues to require intervention by the BDA on their behalf at regular intervals . |
| 16 | While China insists that its open-door policy remains intact and continues to encourage investment from the West , it has revived a vocabulary of ideological struggle almost identical to that used in East Germany . |
| 17 | Whereas using the device in the former genre displays acting skill advantageously , its use in the latter is not only more expensive and difficult but tends to draw attention to the technical device rather too obviously . |
| 18 | As he points out , the difference between the asset value and the depressed share price of the conglomerates concerned gave bidders an opportunity to make a profit by disposing of ill-fitting activities or otherwise increasing efficiency by reducing the scale of operations ( though in fact the record of take-overs in increasing efficiency is mixed and not all take-overs are explicable as moves to reduce inefficiency in the target ) . |