Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) A justice of the peace before whom a person is brought under subsection ( 4 ) above may … if of the opinion that that person — ( a ) is not likely to surrender to custody , or ( b ) has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , remand him in custody or commit him to custody , as the case may require , or alternatively , grant him bail subject to the same or to different conditions , but if not of that opinion shall grant him bail subject to the same conditions ( if any ) as were originally imposed . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) A justice of the peace before whom a person is brought under subsection ( 4 ) above may … if of the opinion that that person — ( a ) is not likely to surrender to custody , or ( b ) has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , remand him in custody or commit him to custody , as the case may require , or alternatively , grant him bail subject to the same or to different conditions , but if not of that opinion shall grant him bail subject to the same conditions ( if any ) as were originally imposed . |
| 3 | Further , the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 are clear and they are mandatory in form , to the extent that if the justice is not of the opinion that the person is not likely to surrender to custody , or has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , the justice has to grant him bail subject to the same conditions , if any , as were originally imposed . |
| 4 | By his appointment as permanent under-secretary of state for the colonies in 1956 , he became one of the few overseas service officers to assume the top post . |
| 5 | During his career at Chapman & Hall he became one of the few close friends of Evelyn Waugh , and in the Second World War took over many jobs in the firm , including that of production manager of the general list . |
| 6 | Tony says he was into raves until 1990 , when he got bored with the same hectic beats and ‘ could see it was n't going to get any bigger because the government was n't backing it . |
| 7 | ‘ Lyle carpets is also in the early stages of BS5750 ’ said Managing Director , John Stewart , as he described one of the many changes in progress . |
| 8 | In turning the tables on Einstein he used another of the latter 's ideas . |
| 9 | Instead , he was put into Sydney Pollack 's They Shoot Horses , Do n't They ? , in which he played one of the many self-pitying characters struggling through a marathon dance contest . |
| 10 | In December 1918 he came second in the same constituency in the Coupon election . |
| 11 | He wears white for the same reason that he never drinks raksi , and that he 's eaten no food since morning . |
| 12 | Gould 's accounts imply that he spent much of the latter part of his expedition , because of a shortage of water , doubling backwards and forwards from the Mount Lofty range to the Murray Scrubs ( later known as the Mallee ) , where most of the interesting birds were to be found : |
| 13 | He did this on the same day , with the result that the situation became much calmer and negotiations opened for a new Executive Council which would include General Aung San as its leader . |
| 14 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 15 | Hodge did not deem Rhee essential to a future government but so long as he remained one of the few nationally known leaders , his cooperation was required . |
| 16 | Modern avionics items exhibit such a variety of failure modes and are so reliable that the tradesman often forgets how he cured a particular type of fault when he experiences another of the same type . |