Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a bid to encourage councillors the company has offered to increase Darlington 's commission to 12.5pc . |
| 32 | From Thursday gold card members can buy tickets the standing price is £7 . |
| 33 | When accrediting courses the CIOB looks at curriculum content and delivery , but focuses on the educational outcomes . |
| 34 | The Health and Safety at Work Act and the singular dedication of engineers and politicians are denying children the right to grow up as children . |
| 35 | Movements in time tend to become ragged coalitions in disguise , denying voters the chance to make clear choices . |
| 36 | Over the years , four more films and a television series were to follow : the heroes found some difficulty in impersonating Raffles the cricketer , the arts of slow bowling being in short supply among leading actors . |
| 37 | Sexual abuse in any circumstances is not to be tolerated , but denying men the opportunity to care is a particularly Draconian solution . |
| 38 | Working , living and playing together in the knowledge that this may continue for many years to come increases the pressure to conform to the wishes of the group . |
| 39 | He did n't enjoy women the way he used to , but killing them was different . |
| 40 | He stood up to indicate thai the conversation was at an end and that he had no wish to be involved as a partner in such blasphemous and heretical talk . |
| 41 | That 's it in one word — John Smith , surely the next leader of the Labour Party , has gravitas the way other people have niceness . |
| 42 | Hong Kong Land 's low gearing , and chairman Simon Keswick 's suggestion that he could snap up property at depressed prices , triggered hopes the company was interested in Canary Wharf . |
| 43 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 44 | In the Forest of Fangorn Gimli the dwarf wants Legolas the elf ( both companions of Frodo ) to kill an old wandering man but Legolas takes pity on him and again the right decision is made , the old man turns out to be Gandalf whom they thought was dead . |
| 45 | On the more general scheme allowing companies the option to pay FIDs , where ACT would be also paid but unused surpluses would be repayable if the FIDS came from foreign profits , the ICAEW said it was not generous and unnecessarily complex . |
| 46 | On Dec. 30 the Majlis approved a bill allowing defendants the right to legal representation in court . |
| 47 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 48 | The length of the delay will depend on the severity of the time and change effects the plant intensive nature of the work the inflexibility of the resource teams available the length of time between changes or delays arising , and the work being carried out . |
| 49 | Books about childhood appear on every level , from those in which specialist communicates only with specialist , through all types of handbook for readers with a vocational interest in children , to those in which the expert and the less expert , with equal show of authority , make parents the target of their beliefs ( substantiated or not ) on how children ‘ should ’ be brought up . |
| 50 | The separate rooms , the doors of which open and close as part of the programme after they have given visitors the chance to move from room to room , begin with the sense of smell . |
| 51 | Hence , at a time when growing numbers were seeking houses the capacity of the cities to cope was being tested . |
| 52 | We will give shareholders the right to vote upon all political donations made by public companies , require donations to political parties to be declared in a public register , require the accounts of political parties to be published and , as recommended by the Houghton Report , introduce state aid for political parties . |
| 53 | If we think we see even the glimmering of an original , important , and scientifically sound message then we will give authors the benefit of the doubt and send the paper to an external referee . |
| 54 | In those circumstances , difficulties should not be caused to member states which defended themselves against practices designed to circumvent the quota system by determining in accordance with international law the criteria on whose basis they granted vessels the right to fly their flag . |
| 55 | The marriage ceremony is not a process whereby a wife abdicates her role in the decision-making process , nor does it give husbands the right to unilateral decisions . |
| 56 | But the danger is that if relief is too often refused on such grounds it may give decision-makers the signal that it does not really matter whether they act within the law or not , so long as the decision is ‘ right ’ . |
| 57 | It is necessary to-keep a small stock of gearboxes because there is some uncertainty about how many will be used on any day , and reordering subjects the firm to some delay . |
| 58 | It may even give passers-by the impression of drunkenness , which is why some people carry a card or note to say , ‘ I suffer from bad attacks of giddiness . ’ |
| 59 | This has been the case in libraries , where the Association of Assistant Librarians themselves came forward with policies they wanted to see implemented because they knew better than most how the arrangement of shelving , as well as the provision of good lighting , seating and magnifies influences the amount libraries are used . |
| 60 | However , where the payment relates to work executed in two costing periods the accountant may choose the last period , the period when the majority of the work was undertaken , or split the payment between two cost periods . |