Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | proposed that we should in effect give the money to erm a non county body involved in this , to allocate , to work out both the basis of the allocation and the allocation funds in this order , we think that 's inappropriate , If we 're putting up money then we should also have the responsibility for allocating them among a until the done and the done , so I 'm at all , or whether our council or something to be set up in the future should have equal control of that , that money . |
| 2 | The following morning , three of the six were eventually discovered at various positions around the living room , the faint glimmer of life making me change my mind about dispatching them to the waste bin . |
| 3 | The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies . |
| 4 | Workers at the Heeley Urban Farm in Sheffield have spent several days collecting seeds from these flowers with the intention of growing them as a crop , eventually to sell the seed as an urban flower-mix . |
| 5 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |
| 6 | Firstly , due to the low usage figures found by the programme monitors in Phase 1 villages ( described in Chapter 5 ) , the Oral Replacement Workers had placed greater emphasis during Phase 2 on telling the village people about LGS at the expense of telling them about the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |
| 7 | The rationale here is colourfully illustrated by Lord Ellenborough 's dictum in Gardiner v Gray ( 1815 ) 4 Camp 144 to the effect that a person does not buy goods simply for the pleasure of depositing them on a dunghill . |
| 8 | He then returned to the bedroom and carefully folded his socks , underwear , jeans and other casual wear before putting them in a drawer by the bed . |
| 9 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 10 | She had recently killed some of Buddie 's hens and turkeys by gripping their necks between her teeth and shaking them violently from side to side before throwing them into the air . |
| 11 | Please spare my copies in future by sending them in a pale pink envelope with flowers on . |
| 12 | enhance pupils ' motivation and self-esteem by providing them with an achievable goal ; |
| 13 | Pioneered by National Children 's Home and co-funded in partnership with Cambridgeshire council , the scheme homes to deter children as young as five from crime by alerting them to the long-term consequences to their victims and the effect of crime on their own future . |
| 14 | Academician Druzhinin held that the object of the framers of the statutes was " to retain in the hands of the gentry estate the maximum quantity of land and to facilitate the gentry 's transition to more profitable farming based on free labour by providing them with the essential capital and reserves of the necessary manpower " . |
| 15 | It is fun to create a pretty effect by sowing them in a narrow band , weaving between the brassicas like ribbon . |
| 16 | ‘ In the hope of following them to the base , since we do n't know where the land entrance is — I only saw the inlet that allows ships in . ’ |
| 17 | The essence of the prosecution case would have been the use by the respondent of excessive force towards two members of the family of the Murphy brothers in the course of removing them from the vicinity of a police van into which the brothers were being placed . |
| 18 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 19 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 20 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |
| 21 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 22 | Myeloski , still unsteady on his feet from the effects of the flight , had weakly harangued a local taxi-driver into driving them to the police station . |
| 23 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 24 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 25 | Besides , I 'm paying for the betrayal by telling them about the body . |
| 26 | The theory is that if the players can not be persuaded to give the public value for money , they must be forced into a slow trot by hitting them in the most vulnerable area — their back pockets . |
| 27 | Teachers can help to develop the ideas of any child by providing them with a new range of experiences . |
| 28 | Characters , drawings , etc , that can be transferred to the artwork by rubbing them off the back of the transfer sheet . |
| 29 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 30 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |