Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hungarian football has since fallen victim to the corruption and match-fixing scandals . |
| 2 | has since received sponsorship from the Ipswich Grain Terminal to help with her work . |
| 3 | In contrast , Roy Parker ( 1988 ) has successfully gathered information about the assisted emigration of children in care to the colonies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from records held in the offices of governments , shipping companies and voluntary agencies . |
| 4 | Mackenzie Walcott lamented ‘ it is almost inconceivable the waste that has mercilessly made havoc of the ancient Memorials that gave renown to Stamford ’ . |
| 5 | By giving it over to Bull , IBM has effectively said goodbye to the French market for the RS/6000 . |
| 6 | Ottomar de Souza Pinto , a governor of Roraima state , which will lose 45 per cent of its territory to the park , has personally paid bail for the gold-miners jailed under Operation Free Jungle . |
| 7 | The pidgin form used ( and it can exist with or without fixed English syntactic markers ) has naturally given way in the USA and Scandinavia to a greater interest and access to the sign language as used by deaf people . |
| 8 | Taking the Report as a whole , the Commission has naturally paid attention to the different interests of those involved in the day to day running of the criminal justice system . |
| 9 | In his article ‘ Polonium : Windscale 's most lethal legacy ’ ( New Scientist 31 March , p 873 ) John Urquhart has rightly drawn attention to the omission from consideration of polonium-210 in the National Radiological Protection Board 's report on the 1957 Windscale reactor fire . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend has rightly drawn attention to the progress that has already been made . |
| 11 | Although successful , Zarei has only received sponsorship from the sports centre where he swims , and recently from the American company Alena , which provides energy bars and drinks , but it was the state of his shoes which drew attention at Gateshead . |
| 12 | The Thurston Upper School pupil is a member of the Stowmarket Kyokushinkai Club and has only taken part in the sport for the past three years , progressing from third to runner-up to national champion at his last championships as a junior . |
| 13 | But SCAD has only got funding until the summer . |
| 14 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 15 | The study points out : ‘ There are uncomfortably strong reasons for supposing that industry in Britain has not adopted microelectronics to the fullest extent possible and that in consequence it is already tending to fall behind our leading competitors . ’ |
| 16 | ( h ) Leaving aside the Court of Appeal decision in Lawrence , the overlap occurs where the accused obtains the property by deception but has not obtained ownership at the moment of the appropriation . |
| 17 | The purchaser would still expect , rightly , to be able to obtain a remedy from the seller under the Sale of Goods Act even though he has not obtained ownership of the copyright subsisting in the computer program . |
| 18 | Yet there is evidence that evaluation has not kept pace with the development of courses in bibliographic instruction . |
| 19 | Organ donation has not kept pace with the demands for transplantation , and a considerable minority of patients die having been accepted for , and while waiting for , transplantation . |
| 20 | Sadly , teaching of languages in schools has not kept pace with the relevant technological advances , but we find now that it is almost never necessary to recruit an individual specifically for linguistic skill . |
| 21 | Intel Corp has put off first deliveries of the P5 microprocessor to the first quarter of next year from the fourth quarter this year , but says that the move has not affected progress on the follow-on P6 , which it had said would start sampling as soon as the fourth quarter of next year , suggesting it will come very hot on the heels of the P5 . |
| 22 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 23 | As with bad debts , the purchaser will insist on warranties covering the scope and extent of creditors and the fact that all creditors have been paid in accordance with usual practice in the ordinary course of business and that the vendor has not delayed payment of the creditors as completion approaches . |
| 24 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 25 | They agree with Cohen 's argument that working-class boys are likely to form and join delinquent subcultures , but they feel he has not taken account of the different and specialised types of subculture that exist . |
| 26 | GROWING affluence has not alleviated anxiety about the future and we are a better insured nation now than we were in 1979 . |
| 27 | Although there has been some change in the distribution of wealth in Britain this century , this has largely taken place within the richest 10% . |
| 28 | Whether or not she has finally lost touch with the sympathies of her daughter 's subjects , only time will tell . |
| 29 | The scene is Haddington in East Lothian and INROADS has just overlaid part of the Main Street . |
| 30 | At the very end of the movie Phar Lap a newspaper reporter in Australia seeks out trainer Harry Telford , who has just received news of the horse 's tragic end . |