Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — the C. and A.G. satisfying himself that money spent has the proper authority ( s.1(1) ) . |
| 2 | That decision has angered the dead man 's family . |
| 3 | We can conjecture that some of the slaves had bought themselves to serfdom ; that penury had compelled the free to sell their freedom for bread . |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the figures given demonstrate clearly that nationalisation has failed the Scottish coal industry and that the only hope now is that it will be privatised in the imminent future ? |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the action , that the statutory framework leading to the grant of planning permission envisaged that a local planning authority would balance the interests of the community against those of individuals ; that where a planning authority had granted consent to the development of an area , the measure of disturbance to individuals had to be considered against the changed character of the neighbourhood and those living close to a public highway affected by that change had to accept the increased volume of traffic in the greater public interest ; and that , accordingly , since as a result of planning permission the two roads now gave access to a commercial dock operating 24 hours a day , the serious disturbance to individuals from the movement of heavy goods vehicles was not an actionable nuisance ( post , pp. 460G–H , 461A–C , H — 462B , C–F ) . |
| 6 | It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession . |
| 7 | There can be little doubt that the speaker in that case intended to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by those whom he was addressing . |
| 8 | Indeed that smell did stimulate the gastric juices . |
| 9 | This finding serves to refute the powerful myth that older people are neglected by their family and that the main burden of caring for older people falls upon the state . |
| 10 | There is plenty of evidence in the Review that taking a professional stance of this kind helped sustain the discursive architecture of English studies in the interwar period , especially in taking the disputative and judgemental stance of Parliament and the Law and borrowing the language from those discourses . |
| 11 | Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously . |
| 12 | Action at this level aims to avoid the worst effects of chronic family difficulties and to prevent clients from being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions ( Wharf , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | This response has incorporated the respectable face of feminism , concerned with ‘ equal rights ’ , into its understanding and provision , with a range of initiatives intended to acknowledge the justice of equal opportunities . |
| 14 | This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena . |
| 15 | This study aims to set the current problem in its context by describing developments in the relationship between central and local government between 1945 and 1983 . |
| 16 | This research aims to monitor the continuing but tentative humanitarian , parliamentary and economic contacts between the regimes to detect any changes in their positions , and to gauge what impact their contacts are having upon their domestic politics . |
| 17 | This research aims to determine the relative importance of ‘ area ’ and ‘ personal ’ characteristics in explaining local variations in school-leaver employment and unemployment within Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1981 . |
| 18 | This research aims to uncover the special role of refugee migrations , ‘ brain drains ’ and international movements of personnel generally in scientific growth , particularly as regards the development of new scientific specialities and disciplines such as theoretical physics , applied mathematics , bio-physics and molecular biology . |
| 19 | To help redress this imbalance , this chapter seeks to evaluate the MDC's policy and practice and will complement Colenutt 's contribution on London in this volume . |
| 20 | This chapter aims to assess the Working for patients White Paper in the light of the changing nature of the finance function . |
| 21 | This chapter aims to clarify the important issues . |
| 22 | This chapter has traced the main phases in the history of International Relations as a discipline and has thereby set an agenda for the rest of the book . |
| 23 | This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened . |
| 24 | This chapter has described the main premises about types of care needed which underlay the way the action project was designed . |
| 25 | This chapter has considered the two most natural methods of recognition used by humans — speech and writing . |
| 26 | This chapter has considered the important topic of money : we examined the definition of money , its functions and traced its evolution from the days of the goldsmiths . |
| 27 | This reasoning fails to meet the logical objection , identified some years earlier by Lord Devlin , that a ‘ purpose must exist in the mind . |
| 28 | This augmentation seemed to give the right behaviour on the texts that SPAR processed . |
| 29 | This Plan has updated the local contribution and suggests a new target reduction of 880 casualties . |
| 30 | ‘ Since I had all the arrangements made for the trip , I thought it would be a good opportunity to get some sponsorship to help replace the missing equipment . ’ |