Example sentences of "[verb] [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria Scarborough and Colin Watson , taking five roles apiece , prove adept at giving every character a distinctive individuality while subtly stressing the continuities which make each the mirror image of one another 's frailties . |
| 2 | Given that the Court had appeared poised to destroy Roe v. Wade , however , the result was generally interpreted as a defeat for the opponents of abortion . |
| 3 | Given that the problem of teenage smoking needed to be tackled with some urgency at that time ( and still does ) , such a course of action was understandable . |
| 4 | No one , not even McCann , challenged what was a fairly high-handed decision , given that the event had been called by a different body . |
| 5 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 6 | Provided that the game is fair and given that the majority of investors hold diversified portfolios , as of course the dominant institutional investors do , then it is debatable whether extensive additional audit work is justified to provide the relatively small numbers of undiversified investors with information about the likely variance of cash flows . |
| 7 | However , given that the majority of employees receive earnings which are below the £17,200 threshold , the 29 per cent rate is clearly imposed on a wide range of incomes , from the lowest to the relatively highly paid employee . |
| 8 | Given that the majority of people are as rational about their fertility as I am — and God knows we are the ones who have to live with our decisions — it seems that any government which tries to overrule those decisions for the sake of some nebulous ‘ common good ’ , or ‘ future benefit ’ is not to be trusted . |
| 9 | In general , given that the decentralization was based on a Fordist fragmentation of the labour process , and that the plants which were decentralized were often precisely of the mass production variety , the second interpretation seems more tenable . |
| 10 | Given that the cartridge may need to be removed for the purpose of transporting the printer , it means that , should any toner be spilled from the cartridge , it is likely to fall below the paper path , and so not contaminate the rest of the machine and subsequent print-outs . |
| 11 | Given that the diagram involves both the rate of interest and the level of real income , this information can be translated to part ( b ) to give the positively sloped curve showing a locus of equilibrium points in the money market . |
| 12 | He has upgraded his profit forecast for BAT from £1.49 billion to £1.56 billion given that the profit on the deal will go above the line in the second quarter . |
| 13 | ‘ The Palace at the highest level is very angry at the damage done to the Korean trip and the wrong impression given that the Queen ordered Diana to go . ’ |
| 14 | The significance of the decision here , given that the case concerned a child who was not terminally ill , is its recognition that it may not always be a doctor 's duty in law to preserve life , provided certain conditions are met . |
| 15 | Even if play areas are created off-street , the impression must not be given that the rest of the street is not intended for playing children . |
| 16 | It 's a good , dramatic blend and , given that the rest of the Heineken League is equally topsy-turvy , it makes for an entertaining diversion while Alan Davies , Bob Norster and Gareth Jenkins wrestle with the real problems on the big stage . |
| 17 | Given that the content of procedural protection will vary from area to area it is important to look at specific topics . |
| 18 | Another consequence of the boom in opposition to nuclear weapons was the eclipse of the campaign against nuclear power , which was a bit odd given that the whole of 1982 was a run up to the inquiry , which begins later this month , into the plans to build Britain 's first pressurised-water reactor . |
| 19 | Given that the proportion of over-75 's in the population will rise by 14 per cent in the 30 years from 1 98 1 , the needs of the traffic vulnerable will inevitably become more insistent . |
| 20 | In communications , given that the course deals with a variety of political relationships , disagreement between staff would have to be more overtly ideological ; the course itself is easily open to charges of left-wing bias . |
| 21 | Savings vary from job to job and company to company but , given that the system is installed for the right reasons , it should be possible to recover the hardware and software costs within two years . |
| 22 | Given that the government must raise some tax revenue , the smallest amount of total waste will be achieved when the goods that are most inelastic in supply or demand are taxed most heavily . |
| 23 | Given that the Government have broken two of their manifesto pledges — the implementation of the Common Land Forum and increased protection for national parks — will the Minister give an assurance now that he will implement the recommendations of the Edwards committee in full ? |
| 24 | How long will the country continue to lose jobs and to lose access to the great national asset of our coal , given that the Government want to sell off British Coal overnight at a cheap price , for the benefit of the Treasury ? |
| 25 | Could she give us just a handful of examples of people who were moved from geriatric beds into the private sector in the early stages of the development of the policy and were given the assurance that she says was publicly given that the Government had no intention of meeting fees , however high ? |
| 26 | Table 6.4 Treasury bills £ millions , net purchases by the public +/sales — Given that the government was buying in gilts with the purpose of unfunding the Public Sector Deficit Requirement ( PSDR ) , such purchases meant that an even larger amount of gilts had to be repurchased from the M4 private sector , but these purchases themselves further increased the surplus in the money market and hence the requirement for issuance of Treasury bills . |
| 27 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 28 | Given that the re-editing of the film reduced the number of title cards from 300 to 80 , it is reasonable to assume that Woolf 's intervention considerably improved the film , and that Woolf 's commercial experience provided a valuable lesson both for Hitchcock and Balcon . |
| 29 | Given that the Asylum Bill will deny genuine asylum seekers entry to this country , |
| 30 | BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ? |