Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , you must have heard about or seen the horsemen hiding in the trees . |
| 2 | For where to get the medicines see the list of useful addresses in Appendix 3 . |
| 3 | The district or islands council must as necessary appoint other persons to act for or assist the clerk . |
| 4 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |
| 5 | The second way was to find a compound which would compete for or block the inactivating enzyme . |
| 6 | Put simply , Northern Ireland is now the only place on the globe where people can not vote for or join the Labour Party . |
| 7 | The view of to taken here also accounts for the impression of what Riddle ( 1975 : 467 ) calls " control " which one often feels with the to infinitive , i.e. the implication that the matrix event is responsible for or affects the complement event ( cf. the difference between Jane forgot to be cautious and Jane forgot that she was cautious ) . |
| 8 | Both his in-laws , especially if they 've paid for or organized the wedding , and especially his mother-in-law . |
| 9 | Employers may pay for the provision of furniture/household equipment and pay for or subsidise the costs of supplying gas , electricity , water and telephones . |
| 10 | In this context , it should be noted that best execution would not apply , unless one of the SFA members is acting as intermediary for or advises the other and the client firm does not waive it . |
| 11 | Mayor Kropacek said : ‘ We must thank the Thun-Hohenstein family for having looked after and honoured the picture of the Annunciation for nearly half a century and for having now returned it , newly restored , to the church of the Holy Cross . |
| 12 | If they were after foxes they would have either had several nets to cover all the holes or a dog such as a lurcher to chase after and catch the fox . |
| 13 | Verses 29–33 : the Merarites are to look after and transport the framework — pillars , pegs , cords — also under Ithamar 's supervision . |
| 14 | But the bishops would not apologise for nor retract the letter , and Mr Tembo could not convince them that the Congress Party had the right to pass death sentences upon them . |
| 15 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 16 | As far as the form of labelling was concerned they believed that what was required was a simple declaration such as contains copies of X genes , in single ingredient foods and foods sold loose , they believe a declaration should form part of or accompanying the name under which food is offered for sale . |
| 17 | 20.1 The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement . |
| 18 | For the first group , more careful diagnostic and treatment procedures , especially extent of surgical resection , are essential in preventing recurrence , while for the second group , one has to identify means of blocking the function of or deleting the effects of persisting carcinogenetic factors , such as hepatitis B virus infection . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal held that the buyer dealt as a consumer , so that the clause was inapplicable ; however , Dillon LJ , obiter , suggested that had the buyer not been dealing as a consumer , the clause would have been reasonable because the buyer ( 1 ) was " ex hypothesi dealing in the course of business and [ the managing director ] was not devoid of commercial experience " and ( 2 ) the supplier was a hire purchase company , not a dealer , and had never had possession of or inspected the car . |
| 20 | I am grateful to him for pausing for a second , at the end of a busy day , to take note of and observe the great benefits to his constituents and those of my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock ( Mr. Janman ) as a result of the establishment of the new trust . |
| 21 | By their statement of claim the council claimed , inter alia , ( i ) that the council was the county council for Derbyshire and pursuant to statute was responsible for a wide range of governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , and in particular the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( ii ) that in those issues of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ the third and fourth defendants falsely and maliciously wrote and the first and second defendants falsely and maliciously printed and published , or caused to be written , printed or published of and concerning the council and of and concerning the council in the way of its discharge of its responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( iii ) by reason of the words published in the articles the council had been injured in its credit and reputation and had been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and had suffered loss and damage . |
| 22 | By their statement of claim the council claimed , inter alia , ( i ) that the council was the county council for Derbyshire and pursuant to statute was responsible for a wide range of governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , and in particular the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( ii ) that in those issues of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ the third and fourth defendants falsely and maliciously wrote and the first and second defendants falsely and maliciously printed and published , or caused to be written , printed or published of and concerning the council and of and concerning the council in the way of its discharge of its responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( iii ) by reason of the words published in the articles the council had been injured in its credit and reputation and had been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and had suffered loss and damage . |
| 23 | ‘ of and … concerning the council and of and concerning the council in the way of its discharge of its responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund the following words … |
| 24 | In Dorset 20,000 was allocated to ‘ monitor the impact of and develop the Care Programme Approach ’ . |
| 25 | Develop staff : make use of and develop the skills of staff . |
| 26 | The method used in the past few years has been simple — ignore names put forward by organisations you do not approve of and pack the committees with more sympathetic interest groups . |
| 27 | While it is important that we take stock of and combat the fraudulent ways in which we are being described by those who oppose us , we should not be unmindful or insensitive to what we are saying about ourselves , of how we are describing who-we-are . |
| 28 | And before the children left they were given a carrier bag with all sorts of things that you could think of and to see the delight on those little children 's faces ! |
| 29 | Peter Berger calls this a ‘ sacred canopy ’ ( Berger 1969 ) that informs , makes sense of and interprets the world as the focus of God 's concern . |
| 30 | Further , it is only for the kingdom of the Burgundians that there is evidence for anything like an all-embracing comital structure , and while most , if not all , Merovingian civitates must have had their comites , or in the north , their graphiones , in all probability local administration could vary according to regional tradition and to the will of an individual king , whose main concern was to ensure the loyalty of and to realize the revenues from his civitates . |