Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 2 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 3 | While the tannery try to sort out the best hides before they 're sent , these flaws can not be helped , so Klondyke cut round them , since otherwise the scar might eventually open up and spoil or even split the strap . |
| 4 | For many , the very phrase risk management may have been a switch off even before the experts started whipping up the campaign with the emphasis on the disaster scenario — terrorist bombings , sinking oil tankers , fraud , kidnap and computer fires . |
| 5 | Jigsaws are a good purchase for the d-i-yer trying to build up a reasonably comprehensive tool kit . |
| 6 | Once the budget is decided , the retailer needs to draw up a plan of how that money is to be spent . |
| 7 | Indeed , this first step proceeded so smoothly that the EEC decided to speed up the timetable of tariff reductions . |
| 8 | By now the fire was crackling merrily , the flames beginning to soar up the chimney and cast brightness on the walls . |
| 9 | The board hopes to open up a Red Kite Trail and has agreed to fund a consultant 's report , which should be available in mid July . |
| 10 | In their private lives , many of the repealers sought to live out the ideal of companionate marriage . |
| 11 | The check-flights will keep the airframe ‘ live ’ and allow a ferry flight to another destination , if the RAF do give up the aircraft , to be a much more cost effective proposition than the notion of dismantling her . |
| 12 | This series has run from last March , and by now we have hopefully supplied every bit of information the beginner requires to set up an efficient basic tropical tank ( throughout this feature we back-reference for your convenience if you missed earlier articles ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Only one thing about that pool , ’ Hugh said , depositing Jacqueline wrapped in a damp towel like a warm parcel in his wife 's arms , ‘ the tide 's gone down a bit . |
| 14 | The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over . |
| 15 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 16 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 17 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
| 18 | Yet the rise has continued up the league ladder , even with the sale of playing assets . |
| 19 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 20 | From about 1983 the courts started to rein back the development they had unleashed . |
| 21 | If the courts did throw out a case that you 'd dealt with , you stood a chance of being sued over it . |
| 22 | Given the rate at which parts of the crag seem to tumble down the hillside , including some famous classic routes , you ought to make the effort sooner rather than later , before any more lines disappear . |
| 23 | The computer started to print out the bill as Adam looked at the picture on the front page of the newspaper . |
| 24 | They immediately had to dive for cover , however , as the Germans had set up a pair of machine guns in front of the doors behind hastily piled crates . |
| 25 | The Germans have shut down the remaining Chernobyl-style RBMK-1000 nuclear plants in the eastern part of their now united country . |
| 26 | And the Germans have calmed down a lot , you 've got to admit that . |
| 27 | As Harry Cohn , head of Columbia , said shortly before a heart attack killed him in 1958 : ‘ The lunatics have taken over the asylum . ’ |
| 28 | The ACPS had set up a sub-committee , under the chairmanship of Baroness Wootton of Abinger , to carry out the review . |
| 29 | A couple more members of the gang came scrambling down the companionway ladder . |
| 30 | VIOLENT aftermath of a failed diamond robbery as the gang tries to track down the turncoat . |