Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the responsibility for sending out the grim , pathetic news was often his , and he hated it . |
| 2 | be appointed with responsibility for setting up the district-wide programme . |
| 3 | Much more important is that the student is aware of the general principles of that particular area of law , has acquired the proper technique for finding out the specific rules and can apply them to the facts of the case . |
| 4 | One widely used criterion for dividing up the cerebral cortex is the organization of inputs from the thalamus . |
| 5 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |
| 6 | the tax effect of adding back the exceptional German stock provision ; and |
| 7 | ‘ this approach is in accord with the approach of the general law of principal and agent in relation to fraudulent misrepresentations made by an agent in carrying out the specific instructions of his principal . |
| 8 | made clear , this approach is in accord with the approach of the general law of principal and agent in relation to fraudulent misrepresentations made by an agent in carrying out the specific instructions of his principal . |
| 9 | Those who act at the place of business must be doing so on the business of the company and not their own account ; the crucial question has been said to be , ‘ Does the agent in carrying out the foreign corporation 's business make a contract for the corporation , or does the agent in carrying out his own business , sell a contract for the foreign corporation ? ’ . |
| 10 | If his vigilance fails , he faces the wrath of ordinary people : depositors whose savings are at risk and taxpayers whose money is used to stop one bank collapse from knocking down the entire banking system . |
| 11 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 12 | This would normally be the position under current standard policies but there is no harm in setting out the principal risks . |
| 13 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
| 14 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 15 | Meredith took the cocoa upstairs by the hall light and into the bedroom without putting on the light switch there . |
| 16 | The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads . |
| 17 | ‘ It kind of brought out the best in them . |
| 18 | Hoving 's gushings are just as tiresome as his nastiness : his description of warming up the cantankerous Robert Lehman ( estranged from the museum over what the collector believed to be an anti-Semitic slight ) recalls similar scenes in Shirley Temple films , the main difference being that presumably Hoving did n't sit on Lehman 's lap . |
| 19 | In the course of writing out the 18 April document the deceased asked what ‘ Sharon 's , ’ i.e. Miss Hughes 's , address was . |
| 20 | That said , there is a playful yet authoritative personality here , which makes the quasi-erotic experience of pressing down the plunger ( an action that the semiotician of coffee Pierre Beaudidlez has described as having an ‘ ecstatic rightness ’ ) especially piquant . |
| 21 | We recently had the opportunity of trying out the latest handheld transceiver in the ICOM range , the IC-A20 MkII . |
| 22 | Ostensibly it was to prosper from a mono-poly of trade with Spanish America , which would be bestowed upon it by the government in return for taking over the entire £9 million worth of unsecured national debt . |
| 23 | France signed an agreement with China whereby in return for giving up the territorial concessions in the treaty ports , handing over the Yunnan railway , and meeting sundry other Chinese demands , they agreed to withdraw their troops from Indo-China by 15 March . |
| 24 | She was quite sure she had surprised them in the act of carrying out the next stage of the deception concerning the Jourdain-Durance paintings . |
| 25 | In particular there is concern within the British civil aviation industry about the level of costs being incurred by the CAA , and recovered from industry , in its work towards setting up the European Joint Aviation Authority and associated regulatory functions , particularly in this formative period when the British Authority continues to function as an autonomous body whose charges must also be borne by operators . |
| 26 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |
| 27 | Jersey cops put out an alert to the Yard asking for assistance in tracking down the globe-trotting 27-year-old . |
| 28 | And I 'll need your help in setting out the basic research outline . |
| 29 | If BL , with its strong union presence , is prepared to negotiate changes in the work organisation of maintenance when microelectronics-controlled machinery is first installed , and management makes some headway in breaking down the traditional craft structure , then presumably substantial changes are on their way in other companies . |
| 30 | However , he was quite correct in assuming she would not contact the person who had phoned her until she was sure he was well out of the way , so she set to work in sorting out the various tasks to be done . |