Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the partners at the firm told me ‘ We try to persuade the software houses we represent over here that it is important to keep users using the latest version of the software , but our upgrade policy has to be dictated by what the vendor will agree to . ’ |
| 2 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 3 | The ‘ Senior Fire Steward ’ would have a pre-prepared list of all sections to be searched by which the current situation could be assessed and reported to the Fire Service on its arrival . |
| 4 | Only where the person using the foul language makes it plain that he has no intention of resorting to violence , and there is no bystander who is likely to be provoked by what the defendant is doing , is no offence committed under this section . |
| 5 | It will frequently be convenient for provisions to be included under which the acquirer will deal with normal repairs and replacements under warranty claims with an agreed method of charging the offeree : product and other liability resulting from products sold prior to completion will normally remain with the offeree . |
| 6 | The vast majority of legislation proposed by the government of the day is passed ; it is rare , indeed it is well-nigh impossible , for legislation to be passed of which the government does not approve . |
| 7 | Once TOPIC and SEAQ screens had been introduced into a firm , the dealer could check what approximate price he ought to be getting , to be varied by what the firm took off or added to quote its price " net " of commission . |
| 8 | Whether the act was dangerous was to be judged by what the reasonable person would have appreciated . |
| 9 | There may be much to be considered of which the project manager is not initially aware . |
| 10 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 11 | Mr Major refused to be drawn on what the two men had agreed but the US is expected to announce soon that a special envoy rather than a ‘ peace ’ envoy will be sent to Ulster . |
| 12 | But there are other lessons to be drawn from what the war makes visible — in the image of a desert war bogged down in muddy trenches worthy of the Somme in the wettest Saudi winter in memory or in the prophetic footage of cormorants drowning in the worst oil disaster yet recorded . |
| 13 | Culture , which later became current with the rise of social anthropology , tended to be associated with what the Germans had believed they had fought for . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , she seemed to be coping with it the best of all of them . |
| 15 | ‘ Might there not be a case for putting the initial interview in the hands of an educational psychologist skilled in eliciting a history without being committed to what the social workers revealingly call ‘ disclosure ’ ? ' , he suggested . |
| 16 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |