Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last October , Glasgow High-Kelvinside administered a 56-13 thrashing to Heriot 's in a Division I match , yet such has been the turnround in both clubs ' fortunes since then , when the clubs meet in a friendly at Goldenacre tomorrow it 's GH-K , who still face the possibility of relegation , while Heriot 's have accelerated into mid-table . |
| 2 | Then he tries to work out what this or that payment actually relates to , and since he does n't know the accounts get into a muddle . " |
| 3 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |
| 4 | If the shareholders agree on a value , and do not refer the matter to the company 's auditors , their agreement and the ensuing transaction may be invalid because the price of the shares has not been established in accordance with the company 's rules ; and as a practical matter it might be unfair to other shareholders . |
| 5 | Any attempt at continued demarcation is impossible once the courts move to a theory of extensive review . |
| 6 | Following Conway v. Rimmer , the courts have on a number of occasions ordered disclosure against the wishes of the Crown . |
| 7 | The riders climb through a tunnel of cheers . |
| 8 | In the more remote part of the Country Park the foundations remain of a signal station used during the Napoleonic wars as a look-out for the approach of ‘ Boney ’ — a real threat in those days . |
| 9 | However , the proposals arise at a time when we are beginning to put in place the policy of care in the community , as enunciated in our White Paper ’ Caring for People ’ . |
| 10 | The requirements for new skills , changing roles and management styles , the erosion of traditional functional boundaries and the needs for training and staff development will give rise to conflict and accordingly focus attention on the role of the personnel function as a mediator . |
| 11 | Christ knows how the rules deal with a team who play 5 at the back . |
| 12 | If the debtor is away , inquiry should also be made whether or not letters are being forwarded to an address within the jurisdiction ( England and Wales ) or elsewhere ; ( d ) if the debtor is represented by a solicitor , an attempt should be made to arrange an appointment for personal service through such solicitor … the rules provide for a solicitor accepting service of a statutory demand on behalf of his client but there is no similar provision in respect of service of a bankruptcy petition ; ( e ) the supporting affidavit should deal with all the above matters including all relevant facts as to the debtor 's whereabouts and whether the appointment letter(s) has/have been returned . |
| 13 | PAUL Gascoigne could make a sensational return to the Spurs team in a game which could decide the League championship . |
| 14 | The adverts come within a year of the Government admitting the existence of MI5 and named its head , Mrs Stella Rimington . |
| 15 | The villain makes a run for it , knocking over an oil-lamp and setting fire to his evil lair , and the titles drift past a close-up of his silent scream and melting face . |
| 16 | ‘ It is of great importance that the UK should not appear to turn its back on Europe , so that it can play its full part in negotiations , ’ the peers say in a report rushed out yesterday ahead of the Strasbourg talks . |
| 17 | The mystic tears have the effect of distorting the vision so the eyes see through a veil ; but even more is the mind distorted and the interior vision is transfigured . |
| 18 | The cars slew to a halt , blocking the traffic . |
| 19 | The most ambitious suggestion will be that the units behave in a way functional for the system , as demonstrated by showing why the system could not otherwise maintain its impetus . |
| 20 | The warranties serve as a means of allocating business risk between the vendor and the purchaser . |
| 21 | The figurines come from a number of important sites around the island , some excavated in the 1960s by Professor Christos Doumas . |
| 22 | The legs break into a run ; the pendulum becomes a spring . |
| 23 | If the parties agree on a procedure and the expert does not , the parties should appoint another expert . |
| 24 | For this purpose , we need to show that the roles serve as a focus for patterns of social relationships and for a framework enabling social development . |
| 25 | By the mid-1960s rock as a whole was hardly monolithic ; but progressive rock was a particularly heterogeneous genre ( compared to , say , rock 'n' roll , which is fairly tightly defined ) . |
| 26 | They should be constantly asking why a bottle is the shape it is and whether the ingredients come from a whale or from a natural substance of which there is great abundance . |
| 27 | ( e ) If , as is normal , the regulations merely give the directors power to refuse to register , as opposed to making their passing of transfers a condition precedent to registration , the transferee is entitled to be registered unless the directors resolve as a board to reject . |
| 28 | Pansies and clay react and the pansies shrivel in a couple of hours . |
| 29 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 30 | As a consequence , the refugees gravitate to a handful of boroughs that are primarily — I heard the hon. Member for Beckenham ( Sir P. Goodhart ) refer to Bromley — Labour boroughs , in London and in one or two other cities . |