Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is wearing a blue tunic and around his shoulders is a fur cloak made of the skins of the hyrax . |
| 2 | In Morgan 's a nine-piece inlaid mahogany parlour suite came under the hammer at £1,950 and an upright overstrung Steinway piano went for £850 . |
| 3 | What distinguished my article , through , from the observations of those trail-blazing precursors was that it acknowledged the presence not only of the ( nonsemiological , non- ‘ signreading ’ ) public but also of the collective bliss which , whatever my own sense of alienation , the theme park experience generated among the public . |
| 4 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 5 | When the deposit was received , it was an advance part payment received by the business and did not belong to the customer . |
| 6 | In the centre Hercules and the Ninth Labour are depicted — the taking of the Golden Apples with the guardian snake emerging from the tree and one of the daughters of Hesperos retreating in alarm . |
| 7 | The wide-ranging package includes a 7.5 per cent surcharge on income tax from 1995 to help close the budget deficit resulting from the cost of financing the recovery in the east . |
| 8 | The ratio can rise either as a result of an increase in OM or through a fall in P. The only route through which OM can rise is a temporary budget deficit financed by the issue of fiat money . |
| 9 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 10 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 11 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 12 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
| 13 | The the memo I 've got is that the new settlement provision according to the structure plan , relates to the the Greater York area . |
| 14 | Robin Smith from Cheltenham was a computer scientist working for the Government , and a member of the Institution of Professionals , Managers and Specialists , at the GCHQ spy base in the town . |
| 15 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 16 | The plaintiffs obtained an injunction to restrain the defendants notwithstanding that the product in question ( a swizzle stick embossed with the name of the ship upon which it was to be used ) was available to anyone who happened to take a cruise on that ship . |
| 17 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 18 | Cromwell allowed Antinomian preachers like Tobias Crisp and John Saltmarsh freedom to preach to the troops with whom this teaching was , naturally , very popular . |
| 19 | The project team used the assessment framework developed by the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) ( see Appendix III ) and the results obtained by the Unit in their mathematics surveys as the starting point for test development in this project . |
| 20 | 1.6 The assessment framework adopted by the Government requires that : ( a ) attainment targets are set for the knowledge , skills , and understanding normally expected at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 ; ( b ) pupils ' performances in relation to attainment targets should be assessed and reported on at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 21 | The cat miaowed piteously again , and suddenly Virginia 's kind heart broke through the spell of fear and doubt that kept her feet glued to the path . |
| 22 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 23 | Budget preparation leads to the presentation of a document indicating planned spending under various headings known as budget heads . |
| 24 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 25 | Or , still in New York , there is Peter Yates ' The House On Carroll Street ( Virgin ) , a gripping suspense story set against the background of the McCarthy inquisition . |
| 26 | I hope I 'll do so , but I must confess that I tend to go and make a pot of tea whenever election coverage starts on the TV . |
| 27 | In general the wave function appears in the form of a packet with a macroscopic extension in space . |
| 28 | During a quick wander round the accessible parts of the ship at the end of the evening I noticed a wonderful old binnacle , preserved from the former Royal Yacht , Victoria and Albert , and before leaving I rested by the quarter deck rail to listen to the ship 's Royal Marine Band play classical selections on the quayside . |
| 29 | Whatever decision Parliament makes in the light of Government decisions , the abolition of ARCUK will have wide-ranging consequences for the Institute and Chartered Architects . |
| 30 | Position the sarcophagus lid on to the base , so that it is open at an angle — use a cocktail stick inserted into the corner to help secure the lid if necessary . |