Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right . |
| 2 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 3 | Each local authority was required to estimate the needs of primary , secondary and further education in its area , and to submit plans for meeting them to the ministry . |
| 4 | He 'll introduce proposals for abolishing it by the end of the year . |
| 5 | Again , many thanks for providing me with the opportunity to meet the Committee , it was very helpful . |
| 6 | Thanks for putting me in the picture , Patrick . ’ |
| 7 | We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division . |
| 8 | Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division . |
| 9 | A simple microscopic examination of some vaginal discharge , suspended in a salt solution , will give the diagnosis in most cases , and there are also reliable methods of culturing it in the laboratory . |
| 10 | The two robbers banged on the side of the Security Express van , spread-eagled one of the guards before shooting him in the legs . |
| 11 | The hypothesis can be tested , in an attempt to falsify it , by plugging the ears of bats before releasing them into the test laboratory . |
| 12 | They even coloured some of the mixture with saffron to make a ‘ yolk ’ , then they carefully filled the shells before baking them in the ashes of the cooking fire . |
| 13 | Everyone remarks on how aggressive it now is , and it seems Down Under , Hewlett-Packard Co made its point about its new mainframe-killing Emerald servers by launching them in the Fossil Gallery of the Australian Museum , carefully labelling the dinosaur skeletons with jibes at IBM Corp , Hitachi Ltd , Fujitsu Ltd , Amdahl Corp and Digital Equipment Corp : legends such as ‘ ES/9000 — a large body and a small brain led this animal to become extinct ’ . |
| 14 | A further consequence of commercialism is the pressure for management to legitimate politically determined goals by clothing them in the language of managerial decision-making . |
| 15 | Either they win the faint gratitude of listeners by reminding them of the original with a faithful remake , or they rip the original to shreds and reassemble it in a manner pleasing to themselves . |
| 16 | She waited all day for the Kurd to return , but he failed to do so ; and when she made enquiries the next morning she was told that he had left the town within minutes of conducting her to the priest 's house . |
| 17 | The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground . |
| 18 | Various sorts of logical structure , with branching and loops , will achieve this — in general we see great advantages in presenting them to the user in graphical form . |
| 19 | He was suspicious of her motives in inviting him into the house — he usually got no further than the front doorstep . |
| 20 | The figures for this year show that £20 million-worth of coal will be imported to Britain by the end of December — the equivalent of closing 20 average-sized pits and getting rid of between 20,000 and 25,000 miners by throwing them on the scrap heap . |
| 21 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 22 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 23 | Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective . |
| 24 | Once information is judged material , we weigh its relevance against the constraints , and balance the costs of reporting it against the benefits . |
| 25 | ‘ A managing director of one of my companies is a great believer in studying the star signs of applicants before employing them in the company . |
| 26 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 27 | Some men get just as turned on by nuzzling and licking the cock and balls without taking them in the mouth . |
| 28 | The Doctor was standing on his head and juggling the balls by knocking them with the soles of his feet whilst gargling ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ . |
| 29 | A NURSING home boss punished teenage girl workers by spanking them on the bottom , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 30 | Anthony Perkins , the star of Psycho , had grown his own cannabis back home in Los Angeles and had thought to avoid being busted by customs by posting it to the hotel in Wales where he was due to stay in June 1989 . |