Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 2 | You can isolate a section of the design and repeat it within the grid area , or make repeats of the whole design . |
| 3 | I do n't how many of you have seen or heard reference to the recent Which report about estates and managing that . |
| 4 | If the manager lacks the chance to engage in a fully collegial approach , if he or she can only find or make time for the essential step of ingesting or thinking new ideas in an atmosphere of enforced professional seclusion , does this obscure his or her clarity of mind ? |
| 5 | Nearly half of those questioned — all of whom had bought or sold property within the past eighteen months — had some complaint , the most common being that agents charged too much and were inefficient or indifferent . |
| 6 | My predecessor took me carefully aside to explain that this device was part of a plot by the Director of Education either to drive him from his place or to impose comprehensives on the whole campus . |
| 7 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 8 | Each time they arrive at a pose , Colas somehow steals the expected kiss or holds Lise in the proper climax as Alain strikes what he believes to be the proper pose . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the controlling or checking functions of the judicial branch can only consist in impartial application of the law , and where constitutional law places restrictions on legislative power , a duty to declare the law seems to imply a duty to declare when such restrictions have been violated , whether by the legislature or by anyone else . |
| 10 | The stone walling blocks , available in a variety of sizes , or build steps to the exact dimensions from concrete , for which you will have to set up formwork . |
| 11 | Yes as you say there there is a budgetary or pegged element in the original prices and we are , as part of the amendment to the contract to reflect the the revised programme er seeking to place the total of the price for the Eurofighter contract onto a maximum price basis so that there would be no er areas which were not capped . |
| 12 | Equally unavoidable is the conviction that it is not in the public interest for any profession to become the subject of so much unwarranted regulation and criticism ( not to mention claims ) that it is unable to retain or recruit individuals of the required calibre . |
| 13 | Place the slide or peel mount into the negative carrier of a photographic enlarger and project the image on to an international A4 size sheet of printing paper of appropriate grade , determine the exposure and print two copies . |
| 14 | Hannah Arendt has linked the rise of both pan-Germanism and pan-Slavism with the ‘ triumphant imperialist expansion of the Western nations ’ in the 1880s , but it is clear that while pan-Slav ideas were confined in the main to the idea of restoring or gaining independence for the Slav subjects of Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire , pan-German ideas ran in a quite different direction . |
| 15 | If they start to fall beneath their percentile band then they are not growing or gaining weight at the expected rate and it is important to try to determine why this is happening . |
| 16 | The rest idled along , hopping a few yards and then pausing to nibble or to pass droppings on the warm , sunny grass . |
| 17 | As mentioned earlier in this chapter , company policy may vary with regard to whether the expatriate is expected to rent or buy property in the new location or whether he can benefit from living in company housing . |
| 18 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 19 | Others ( e.g. Hatcher and Shall ice , 1983 ) have drawn upon Phizacklea and Miles 's North London research which , although in the final analysis conceives of racism as a form of false consciousness , nevertheless gives a more active , reasoning or reflexive role to the working class racist subject . |
| 20 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 21 | In the previous section we indicated the direction of changes in national income and aggregate demand when there were increased or reduced injections into the circular flow . |
| 22 | The Church Commissioners have the right to declare a particular use as being unsuitable , and the Advisory Board is required to approve or withhold approval of the proposed adaptation . |
| 23 | On the card , how often have you used or received items from the main counter during the last year , choosing from fifteen ? |
| 24 | The Justice Department could not ask for damages or seek penalties against the guilty parties . |
| 25 | Soviet writers claimed that the Western states were employing a whole range of devices to undermine the neutralism or proclaimed neutrality of the new states . |
| 26 | The joint between the end of the dock and the standing work of the bay end is preferably a direct butt joint between suitable packed or faced surfaces at the leading following and bottom sides of the dock which close simultaneously by a direct butting , as distinguished from a sliding , motion against corresponding surfaces on the standing work . |
| 27 | Now , the fact that a criminal offence is committed by a trader or creditor does not confer upon the consumer any right to bring an action or obtain redress in the civil courts . |
| 28 | Few people enjoy jogging or pumping iron in the local gym three evenings a week , so I 've got over that problem too . |
| 29 | There has been a campaign by Customs & Excise , intensifying as the year has gone on , with valuable assistance from the accountancy profession , Sitpro ( Simpler Trade Procedures Board ) and similar bodies , to ensure that businesses buying or selling goods within the European market know what the changes to the collection of VAT and related statistics will entail . |
| 30 | He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan . |