Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | : To determine the effectiveness of the definitional overlap technique using definitions extracted from the OALD . |
| 2 | : To determine the effectiveness of the definitional overlap technique using definitions extracted from the Collins English Dictionary . |
| 3 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 4 | Margaret Wilson , who chairs the residents ' organisation , has written to the licensing board to encourage members to vote for the proposals . |
| 5 | In 1135 , Robert de Percy is named as donor of the church , and the churchyard contains gravestones belonging to the Percy family , who originally owned the village and had Sutton Hall as a hunting lodge . |
| 6 | Every reader contains a full-colour dictionary explaining words used in the story . |
| 7 | Every reader contains a full-colour dictionary explaining words used in the text . |
| 8 | But Labour policy is hostile to such personal effort ; Labour wants pensioners to depend on the State . |
| 9 | The figure includes loans sold to the Co-operative Credit Purchasing Company , a loan-buying company set up by the banks themselves . |
| 10 | The Commissioner of Inland Revenue confirmed assessments to tax on the profits arising from the taxpayer 's sub-licensing operations and the taxpayer appealed to the Board of Review . |
| 11 | Current research includes projects funded under the ESRC Programme on Information and Communication Technologies ( PICT ) , projects on social structure in Scotland , and the ESRC Regional Research Laboratory . |
| 12 | Courtaulds Protective Coatings is investing heavily in research to devise products based on the Ecotech initiative which promotes the increased use of environmentally sensitive coatings . |
| 13 | 9 T. S. Eliot 's visiting card accompanying flowers sent to the author in Guy 's Hospital . |
| 14 | In order not to obstruct gangways or take up rack space , dry powder systems would have to be designed with extensive pipework feeding nozzles located in the racks or gangways from a centralised , pressurised storage unit . |
| 15 | Erosion on the main section facing east and lengthening to the south resulted in the pattern of south-west trending ridges preserved between the lighthouse and Stonyditch Point . |
| 16 | Despite the government 's resolution of Aug. 11 to pay up to 12,000 roubles per tonne for standard quality grain in an attempt to persuade producers to sell to the state , only a quarter of the target figure for state reserves had been delivered by mid-August . |
| 17 | Part of the programme included talks prepared by the cadets on the subject of the centenary . |
| 18 | No unmentionable topic is spared and fun is liberally poked at everyday events in Kamrok 's continuous search to keep customers rocking in the aisles . |
| 19 | Fears that the Cockney comic was going to be involved in a bust-up sent officers racing to the 400-year-old luxury mansion he converted into a dream lovenest for Tracie . |
| 20 | The 11 were arrested on Thursday morning and charged — along with NatWest Investment Bank , County NatWest Securities and UBS Phillips & Drew Securities — on 14 counts of conspiracy to defraud persons dealing in the shares of Blue Arrow or NatWest Bank or in options on the FT-SE 100 index . |
| 21 | At the same time , some remained in essence overgrown villages resulting from the establishment of rural industry . |
| 22 | What effect do solitons have on the properties of polyacetylene ? |
| 23 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 24 | It 's an attempt to stop cars parking on the pavement , which can be awkward and dangerous . |
| 25 | The college runs courses recognised by the British Sub Aqua Club and the Professional Association of Diving Instructors — an American organisation . |
| 26 | For example , it is bad but commonly encountered accounting practice to show profits undrawn by the partners in each accounting year as standing to the credit of their capital accounts . |
| 27 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
| 28 | The Export awards , which recognise and reward the valuable contributions made to the local economy , both in export turnover and employment created by export minded companies located in the Province , are sponsored by Northern Bank International in association with the Industrial Development Board , the Local Enterprise Development Unit , the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry and British Midland . |
| 29 | The latter case is more likely if the new user is to be working as part of a team , since the team leader will probably have the privilege to create users according to the needs of the project . |
| 30 | The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world , to point to things , as Richards puts it . |