Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If British Rail goes ahead with the building of this station at a cost of £1.4 billion , what sort of income will it need to secure from the capital developments to service the loan , bearing in mind the fact that the Minister has often said that the Government will put no money into the project ? |
| 2 | As I understand the position , the duty in negligence arose purely from the fact that the wife was also a customer of the bank . |
| 3 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 4 | The base goes back to the RAFin SEptember 94. it 's not yet known what will be done with the land but many local people hope it 'll be used the upper H |
| 5 | Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict . |
| 6 | Under the long curling hair hanging lankly over the driver 's neck , Howard has noticed , is a tumour the size of a sparrow 's egg . |
| 7 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 8 | In many Latin American countries teachers lack the freedom to devise and organise their own teaching plans , Peru being one of the few exceptions ( and even here there is a general curriculum laid down by the ministry ) . |
| 9 | Teaching in schools must follow the lines of a national curriculum laid down by the Secretary of State which will dominate approximately 90 per cent of school timetables . |
| 10 | I would like to ask a question , that if this particular rule is n't necessary , then how does a branch go about appealing a decision made elsewhere in the union 's hierarchy ? |
| 11 | The royal favourite gazed moodily around the chamber . |
| 12 | Finally , we showed that indomethacin at a concentration of 100 uM significantly inhibited the chemiluminescence produced chemically by the interaction of hypochlorous acid with luminol . |
| 13 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 14 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 15 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 16 | The Ministry of Defence argued strongly against the merger on the grounds that GEC and Plessey were the two largest suppliers of defence electronics in the UK . |
| 17 | The words which I have read are plain : it was Mr. Vanbergen who said he was going down to Eastbourne , that he was going down as part of his business , and that he did not think he would be getting back after his business on Thursday in time to pay it on Thursday , and the concession arose out of the question whether or not the debtor could be back in town in time to bring it himself , because he frankly said he was trying to get a little more time . |
| 18 | A ‘ Slaven for Scotland ’ number was followed immediately by the striker 's selection for Ireland ; the ‘ Pears for Sweden ’ shirt led inevitably to the goalie missing his England B call up with a fractured cheek bone . |
| 19 | However , the Court had also held in Case 362/90 , d'Urso , [ 1990 ] 1 ECR 4105 that a collective decision to contract out of the Directive was not binding on individual employees who wish subsequently to transfer . |
| 20 | The lower jaw fits snugly into the groove when the jaws are shut , like the blade of a penknife fitting into its handle . |
| 21 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 22 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 23 | The case arose out of the Executive Agreement concluded between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran which led to the eventual release of the hostages detained in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 . |
| 24 | Our sympathy goes out to the player and his family . ’ |
| 25 | The trail goes on along the side of Snidley Moor , on around the base of Alvanley Cliff and by Simmonds Hill , Manley . |
| 26 | Then , some time later , Francis Greenway was accused of forgery in connection with a building contract made shortly before the failure ; and , tried at Bristol assizes on 23 March 1812 , he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to transportation for life . |
| 27 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 28 | ‘ When the woman driver got out of the car she went to intervene between the two men . |
| 29 | The driver got out of the car . |
| 30 | Clint : ‘ I think each existence rubs off on the other . |