Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 2 | In a number of elections in the Irish Republic both Fine Gael and Labour , its much weaker partner , have benefited thus : each has received votes transferred from the other as being surplus to the quota of candidates elected or , much more commonly , as being useless to candidates eliminated . |
| 3 | To compensate for votes lost on the right , he needs to attract Communists horrified by the summer 's iconoclastic alliance , and has described the left-wing coalition as ‘ a crutch for New Democracy , a spare part ’ . |
| 4 | The photographs are by Neil Leifer , whose work has decorated Sports Illustrated since the early 1960s , and the text is supplied by Thomas Hauser , author of the definite Muhammad Ali : His Life and Times . |
| 5 | BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley . |
| 6 | Mrs Hillaby , the present clerk of the course , told me how she has seen horses collapse at the finish , and one had even laid down and died through being ridden too hard . |
| 7 | The author , George Macleod , who practices in Sussex , uses homoeopathic remedies wholly and exclusively , is President of the British Association of Homoeopathic Veterinary Surgeons , and has written books dealing with the treatment of other animal species . |
| 8 | AT&T 's NCR Federal Systems Division is upgrading some of the products it is supplying as part of US government contracts : it has added the AT&T StarStation 386 DX PC to its $800 million , eight-year Office Automation Technology and Services ( OATS ) contract with the the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) which it won back in in 1989 — 12,500 Intel 80386-based personal computers and 2,500 laptops have been shipped so far — and has upgraded computers supplied under the 1988 , $1bn Standard Multi-user Small Computer Requirements Contract to run Unix SVR4 . |
| 9 | It has persuaded pubs to open during the afternoon , and provide an additional beer from a different brewery , through successful lobbying of Parliament . |
| 10 | Each generation in Edenderry has had members called to the full-time ministry of the church : the late ( now of the Presbyterian Church ) and , more recently , the Reverend David Kilpatrick . |
| 11 | The North York Moors National Park committee has agreed to expand its Moorsbus service which for the last ten years has enabled visitors to get to the heart of the moors without congesting roads and villages with private cars . |
| 12 | Said a security source : ‘ They claim their company is in liquidation and needs to clear debts owed to the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise . |
| 13 | Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that since the decision by the Secretary of State on the channel tunnel route to London , British Rail has appointed consultants to advise on the possibility of building the Eurostation above ground , rather than building it underground as proposed in the Bill ? |
| 14 | This has led planners to focus on the substantial private sector already in existence in some countries . |
| 15 | It may be this unusually close relationship between spoken and written forms which has led psycholinguists to concentrate on the processing of single grammatical sentences , with the tacit assumption that the sentence is an important processing unit . |
| 16 | The Hungarian government has announced plans to deal with the rapid drying up of the Szigetkoz area , rich in wildlife and forests , where groundwater levels are falling following the Danube diversion . |
| 17 | And , in a fascinating study , Carol Barnes , whose earlier research includes the correlations between ageing , learning and LTP mentioned in the previous paragraph , has allowed rats to live in the type of enriched environment typical of the experiments of Rosenzweig , Bennett and Diamond described in Chapter 6 . |
| 18 | A very sensible bit of collusion between the R & A and the PGA European Tour has allowed amateurs to compete in the Pre-Qualifying School without losing their amateur status . |
| 19 | One has to develop routines to cope with the situation because it is far too complicated a situation to be handled in any other way . |
| 20 | Since opening in 1990 , his intimate room at Brabanterstrasse 49 has encouraged artists to reflect on the gallery structure itself . |
| 21 | The recent BBC TV Watchdog report on breaking fish tanks has sent shockwaves rushing through the aquatic industry and pet trade and produced a state anxiety bordering on hysteria . |
| 22 | He talked with a leading expert , Dr Joseph D. Rosen , an organic chemist at Rutgers University 's Department of Food Sciences who has analysed samples taken by the US military and intelligence agencies . |
| 23 | The proposal has upset residents living near the base , and met with a mixed reaction from the travellers themselves . |
| 24 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 25 | From the plethora of material available Christine has assembled displays made from the best material at the best price . |
| 26 | Against the bombs they wore steel helmets for protection which Tom recalls had holes drilled round the rim . |
| 27 | The factory manufactured traditional Persian style Axminster rugs and a limited amount of broadloom on approximately twelve jacquard gripper looms using designs supplied from the state studio in Moscow . |
| 28 | Marketing in Europe which aims to enable students to differentiate between the European marketing environment and the domestic or international situation . |
| 29 | New guidance from the Standing Conference on Drug Abuse , Alcohol Concern and the Local Government Drugs Forum with input from other specialists and the DoH , aims to help authorities look at the most effective and useful ways of assessing the needs of alcohol and drug misusers and managing their care . |
| 30 | The Junior Citizen Scheme aims to help children cope with the possible hazards of everyday life . |