Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | v. Cousins an interlocutory injunction was issued to restrain the defendants from preventing oil companies from carrying out their contracts to deliver oil to the plaintiff 's hotel notwithstanding that the contract with the principal supplier of oil contained a clause absolving it from liability if delivery was prevented by circumstances outside its control . |
| 2 | They will have to ask permission from the match umpires before they can use their fingers to scratch mud from the surface of the ball . |
| 3 | Some schools , e.g. in East London and Liverpool , adjusted their hours to take account of the needs of poorer children both for earnings and education , beginning or ending the school day later or earlier than was the custom , enabling schoolchildren to work before or after school . |
| 4 | The Communist Party had not yet abandoned its attempts to gain control of the ILP , despite the assurances made in the previous year . |
| 5 | Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ . |
| 6 | The University of Edinburgh Staff Club has recently changed its rules to open membership to the graduates of universities other than Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Alongside the organisational changes aiming to improve exchanges between Government , the science base , and industry , the industry departments , supported by the Department of Trade and Industry 's ( DTI 's ) Innovation Unit , intend to scale up their activities to promote awareness of the importance of innovation among senior managers in the business community . |
| 8 | I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week . |
| 9 | Their attempts to take control of the legislature were foiled , however , when Rex , using all of his political experience and powers of patronage , induced four opposition legislators to defect to the government benches . |
| 10 | For many , the task of policing relaxed consents was a source of considerable professional embarrassment following their attempts to secure compliance with the former , stricter , standards . |
| 11 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 12 | He said some training councils had increased their bids to take advantage of the political sensitivity of the subject . |
| 13 | ‘ They will have no guarantee of funding , will have to re-organise their affairs to take account of the changes and partnerships with the council formed over many years will be lost , ’ said Martin Sime , Director of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations . |
| 14 | Taiwo Oruene , of New Cavendish Street , London , took the Faculty of Advocates to an industrial tribunal in Edinburgh alleging that it discriminated against her because of her racial origin and colour in her efforts to gain membership of the Scottish bar . |
| 15 | A great deal of money and time had been spent by the 13 political associations in their efforts to win approval from the government-appointed National Electoral Commission ( NEC ) . |
| 16 | Mr Fallon urged all Rothmans employees and their families to take heed of the comments . |
| 17 | Mr Fallon urged all Rothmans employees and their families to take heed of the chairman 's comments . |
| 18 | IRELAND 'S South Donegal Railway Restoration Society received a major boost in its efforts to reopen part of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee 's narrow gauge system when it took possession of two of the railway 's few surviving passenger vehicles . |
| 19 | IBM must continue its efforts to match SNA to the International Standards Organization/open systems interconnection ( OSI ( standard adopted by many European companies already . |
| 20 | In the first week of May , Congress cleared its decks to start work on the details of Mr Clinton 's economic package . |
| 21 | ‘ We are pursuing measures to make NT and SVR4 communicate with each other , ’ says Walker , though Microsoft claims its offers to develop interoperability with the two Unixes have been met with downright hostility . |
| 22 | It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life . |
| 23 | In the EEC , only Belgium and Luxembourg , apart from the UK , fail to zone their LFAs to equate compensation with the degree of handicap . |
| 24 | Moreover , their parents are supportive of modern language , not only in theory , but also in practice , and they wish their children to have access to the modern language curriculum . |
| 25 | Historians have indi-cated a ‘ structural weakness ’ in the Angevin Empire which stemmed from the obligations of its rulers to perform homage to the French crown from 1151 onwards for most of their continental dominions . |
| 26 | Even Saudi Arabia , which encouraged its citizens to give money to the Afghan rebel cause — for many years it matched America 's covert financing — is now trying to stop the flow . |
| 27 | Between them they made a honey abstract on the beige walls , then , with a screech and a giggle , wriggled off their chairs to create chaos in the playroom . |
| 28 | Since Watergate , Nixon has been a discredited figure and some of his attempts to bring order to the fragmented system of government stepped beyond the bounds of legality . |
| 29 | He wants to press on , he tells the world , with his plans to extend democracy in the colony before its 1997 handover to China . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on his plans to heighten confidence in the administration of justice . |