Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT&T Co has plunged into the desktop personal computer videoconferencing business with the launch of its Visual Solutions product line , committing that the products and services for business will be based on globally accepted standards for video calls over digital phone lines — under the framework of the Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy , companies worldwide have agreed the Px64 series of standards for video transmission over digital phone lines . |
| 2 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 3 | ( 5 ) A licensing board shall not entertain a request to declare the provisional grant of a licence final unless the person to whom the grant was made has given to the board such notice of his intention to make the request as may be prescribed . |
| 4 | May I thank my honourable friend for that extremely helpful reply and for the encouraging figures which he has given to the house this afternoon . |
| 5 | The Spanish State has subcontracted to the Foundation many of the rights and obligations under the loan agreement . |
| 6 | Ann , the daughter of Joe 's partner , was Larry 's fiance/1e , and now wants to marry Joe 's surviving son , Chris , who has come through the war unscathed . |
| 7 | Howell has come to the fore this season , being instrumental in getting Civil Service into third place in the league behind Kelburne and Torbrex Wanderers with his impressive defensive record . |
| 8 | [ 5.2 The Seller warrants that it is not aware of any actual or alleged infringements of any intellectual property rights of third parties which relate to the goods other than those ( if any ) which the Seller has disclosed to the Purchaser prior to acceptance of the Order . ] |
| 9 | The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there . |
| 10 | A group of trades and professions has grown around the core financial institutions to provide other services , such as lawyers ( of particular importance to primary eurobond issuance ) , accountants , actuaries , security printers , computer programmers and consultants . |
| 11 | She has written to the Attorney General protesting that the courts have been too lenient on Dr Courtney and she has tabled a Parliamentary Question to Sir Nicholas designed to force a judicial review of the sentence . |
| 12 | Bonn 's cultural life should nevertheless be enhanced by its new Kunst-und-Ausstellungshalle , an exhibition complex which has risen on the site adjacent to the Stadtmuseum . |
| 13 | Another mortar team has moved into the orchard this evening , 13th June , and got down to work straight away by sending off several rounds of high explosives in quick succession in the direction of the enemy positions . |
| 14 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | This study examines specific resources — various types of labour , capital and materials — used by the hospital sector to quantify the degree of substitution that has occurred over the period 1951 to 1981 . |
| 16 | If ovulation has occurred within the past 10 h ( approximately ) the masses of cumulus cells surrounding the eggs will be clearly visible through the thin distended walls of the ampulla . |
| 17 | An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it . |
| 18 | As a result , policy and resources committee proceedings have in many authorities become either duplicates of , or substitutes for , the work of the full council and the function of policy co-ordination has shifted to the party political groups , or to the chief executive and management team , or … both' ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 91 ) . |
| 19 | A inmate has escaped from the Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in Berkshire . |
| 20 | I had the opportunity to discuss the matter that the right hon. Gentleman has raised at the conference this week . |
| 21 | Mr W I Paterson has retired as the North Western Area Director and has been replaced by Mr D M MacInnes . |
| 22 | Many of the more senior academics have left university employment and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has spoken of the threat this poses to academic leadership . |
| 23 | Probably rather less than immediately appears , for , although symptoms of thrush may seem to be related to a recent sexual act , it may be that the trauma of vigorous sexual intercourse has brought to the surface that which was lying dormant . |
| 24 | Since 1987 it has emerged as the number one buyer of privatised bus companies , picking up operators from Inverness to Hampshire . |
| 25 | An examination of Figure 6.1 reveals that , whilst each of the groups considered has gained over the period 1979 — 89 ( due to the tax and benefit changes discussed above ) , the greatest gain was made by the richest tenth of the population . |
| 26 | Saying Sun Microsystems Inc 's service is not up to snuff , Sun reseller Marathon International Group , of Campbell , California , has gone into the business on-site and over-the-phone . |
| 27 | Whereas the role of executive princess touring the troubled countries of the Third World has gone to the Princess Royal , there has lately been much written on the theme of the Princess of Wales as ‘ caring princess ’ . |
| 28 | However , it is clear that the divergence between the North and the South has widened during the period 1981 — 7 ( see Figure 9.5 ) . |
| 29 | Nigel Gibbon has worked for the Government Legal Service in the Customs and Excise Department for three and a half years . |
| 30 | What has happened in the past half century , apart from the advance of technology , has been the erection of a firm framework of regulation , the appearance of specific safety technologies , such as industrial hygiene , and the advance of the idea that safety can and must be managed . |