Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
| 2 | It emphasises that in the final analysis it is not what the electors , or judges , or a returning officer may say , but what the House itself says , which determines whether a successful candidate may take a seat . |
| 3 | Dr Clay writes that during the middle years of the seventeenth century customary tenures were still widespread and important , especially for the smaller properties , but that much less land was held in this way than was the case 100 years earlier . |
| 4 | Wittek writes that among the basic causes of concern were Bayezid 's policy of using Christian soldiers against the Muslim gazi emirates in Anatolia and the " latinization " of the Ottoman court , the introduction into it of the practices of the Christian Balkan princes , this criticism being reflected in anecdotes relating that Bayezid 's Serbian wife Despina instructed him in the delights of wine . |
| 5 | He then writes that in the early part of 821/early 1418 , Molla Fenari appointed his younger son , Sinan al-Din Yusuf Bali Celebi ( Yusuf Bali ) , as naib for the kadilik of Bursa and with his elder son , Muhyi " l-Din Muhammad Shah Celebi ( Mehmed Sah Fenari ) , went directly to Egypt where he spent Ramadan at the Zayniyya medrese and awaited the arrival of Seyh Zeyneddin , with whom he subsequently made the pilgrimage in 822 , departing from , and returning to , Jerusalem . |
| 6 | The last line illustrates that in the covariant derivative of a tensor of second order or higher there is one term for each index . |
| 7 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 8 | As I have said , counsel for the defendants accepts that in the present case by promising to pay the extra £10,300 the defendants secured benefits . |
| 9 | Adams ( 1979 ) presents a review and experimental study of the subject , and concludes that despite the theoretical problems , there is practical value in teaching rhythm to learners of English . |
| 10 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 11 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 12 | Teachers in ordinary schools need to be aware that some visually handicapped pupils may have these social needs while at the same time encouraging positive and enjoyable social interaction between pupils within the full range of vision . |
| 13 | These two photos might seem like Then and Now exercises as on the facing page . |
| 14 | He insists that in the last analysis there is a fundamental difference between believing in ahi sā , even though it is not possible to behave non-violently in all life 's circumstances , and believing in hi sā . |
| 15 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 16 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 17 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 18 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 19 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 20 | David Clews , of Pintail , says that about the only request for spares was due to a shaft breaking when a burr caught in clothing . |
| 21 | Merseyside 's leading housing advice group also says that over the last year there has been a 100pc rise in the number of young homeless being referred to it . |
| 22 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 23 | For the future , Acorn says that in the professional arena , powerful systems are being developed its computers , and it will co-ordinate and exploit this opportunity in key areas such as the professional publishing market . |
| 24 | It aims to turn the headphones radios and television group into a mini-conglomerate and says that in the five weeks since new board was appointed , ‘ considerable progress has already been made . ’ |
| 25 | Child 2 : ‘ Mummy says that in the old days daddy would have worked down a coal mine to make power for people , |
| 26 | John Doxsie , head of Staley 's sweetener division , says that in the three years since its launch , Krystar has accounted for 100 million lb of the annual five billion lb market for all sweeteners . |
| 27 | Sunderland motor dealer Reg Vardy says that in the past month it has sold £1.1m worth of luxury cars to local businessmen . |
| 28 | While Crescendo has not firmed up its plans enough to announce what specific products are to follow , SynOptics says that in the third quarter of the year it will launch two FDDI unshielded twisted pair hub products : the Model 3905 FDDI UTP Host Module is claimed to be compatible with all existing SynOptics System 3000 modules , and will list for £3,630 . |
| 29 | Dataquest notes that 1992 was the first year in which each of the five top workstation vendors offered RISC-based workstations for under $10,000 and says that in the third quarter more than 60% of the boxes going out the door were priced under $15,000 . |
| 30 | It says that in the fourth quarter of 1991 , there was a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars in the second hand market compared with a year earlier . |