Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 2 | The provision for abandonment represents the accumulated amount of the Group 's share of abandonment cost of £58 million [ 1991 £45 million ] for all North Sea fields in which the Group has an interest and which are currently in production , £1 million [ 1991 £nil ] for similar costs in Nova Scotia , and £nil [ 1991 £1 million ] in Australia . |
| 3 | These represent the government 's formal request to Parliament for cash to finance the major part of central government 's expenditure . |
| 4 | UEFA 's decision to overturn shamed opponents Dinamo Tbilisi 's appeal against disqualification for bribery means the Georgian club will automatically lose their win bonus for defeating the Blues 3–2 in the preliminary round . |
| 5 | Afterwards we fell to talking of the cold December Wednesday in 1967 when he and the rest of Tow Law 's bairns took the afternoon off school to watch the local Northern League side beat Mansfield Town 5–1 in the FA Cup . |
| 6 | And of the Adults who left during the siege , or who managed to survive the fire , three Britons will soon go on trial for conspiracy to murder the federal agents who were killed or wounded in the initial shoot out . |
| 7 | Fruit juices are high in fructose , which weight for weight has the same calories as sucrose ( ordinary sugar ) . |
| 8 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 9 | Under the system of fixed exchange rates any export of capital affected the reserve position though precisely how depended on the manner in which the investment was financed . |
| 10 | But the Board of Trade had a great deal of latitude to vary the precise details of the arrangement , and insisted that , for discs , the records should bear the stamps , not the sleeves . |
| 11 | To take a simple example : if we assume that the force of gravity permeates the whole material universe and that it is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between any two atoms anywhere , then two interesting propositions arise . |
| 12 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |
| 13 | Styles changed to suit the visitors ' demands , and with volume and speed of production becoming the prime considerations , standards of craftsmanship steadily declined . |
| 14 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |
| 15 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 16 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 17 | But Saturday 's tragic loss of life offers the Provisional leadership little opportunity to allay the blame that rests squarely on its shoulders . |
| 18 | The death of a spouse and loss of job merit the highest stress rating , and the low end of the scale includes holidays and Christmas ! |
| 19 | He had not noticed any skin rash and was surprised to be told that his symptom was a direct result of syphilis affecting the auditory nerve . |
| 20 | As a result of student protests the Supreme Soviet Presidium agreed in April to cut military service for those in higher education from two years to one ( which could be served after graduation ) . |
| 21 | This three year programme of research examines the present and future effects of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( PACE ) and the Prosecution of Offences Act . |
| 22 | The events that he suggested ( his theory fell out of favour in the Twenties , and has only been revived since the study of palaeomagnetism indicated the strong likelihood that the continents had drifted , and in continuous directions at regular velocities ) were supposed to have started to take place 600 million years ago . |
| 23 | Precisely the same fear of revaluation underlay the continual reluctance of the German and Japanese authorities to see their currencies held as reserves by other countries . |
| 24 | But the touch of class does not happen by accident and into every piece of flooring goes the wide-ranging skills of the UK company 's workforce . |
| 25 | That piece of cord contained the very wire that could be used to fix the car . |
| 26 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 27 | In 1864 Leslie realized a long-held ambition in setting up a National College of Music to rival the continental conservatoires . |
| 28 | The task of reviewing the existing structure was made much less onerous due to the fact that a working party had already been set up by SCOTVEC under the chairmanship of Principal Huckle of Kirkcaldy College of Technology to review the advanced accounting course provision . |
| 29 | The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change , which links the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP and has its secretariat in UNEP 's offices in the UN 's second city , Geneva , could be institutionalized and strengthened under the aegis of UNEP to provide the focal point for investigation , the monitoring of the impact of climate change , and ideas . |
| 30 | Thus the effect of containment resembles the unintended power of the subordinates in this play who execute the commands of the powerful and of whom the Governor complains : |