Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Described by Finance Minister Allan Larsson as " austere but responsible " , the budget sought to bring the expansion of public-sector expenditure to a halt [ for austerity measures already approved in December 1990 see p. 37925 ] . |
| 2 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 3 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 4 | The black box represents the NcoI-EcoRI oligonucleotide adaptor inserted to maintain the 140k reading frame and to facilitate the insertion of the EcoRI-BstEII gene 62 fragment from plasmid pV17 into the vector p585T7a . |
| 5 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 6 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 7 | The majority failed to understand the motivation of some of the characters . |
| 8 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 9 | The 1992 budget planned to limit the public-sector deficit to 9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , and to save L60,000 million ( about US$48,250,000 ) through a combination of spending cuts , fiscal measures and privatization . |
| 10 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 11 | ‘ For God 's sake , get to sea instantly … , ’ the First Lord of the Admiralty signalled the captain in command of the squadron assigned to blockade the Texel . |
| 12 | However , in Warren v Truprint [ 1986 ] BCLC 344 a clause which did offer a " two-tier service " was held unreasonable : the customer had no choice in relation to the terms , since such terms were universal in the industry , and the contract failed to indicate the extent of extra liability the processor would accept . |
| 13 | Turns out that that Game Genie sold by Lewis Galoob Toys Inc in the US that enables players to alter the parameters of games , and which Nintendo Co failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to declare illegal ( CI No 2,135 ) , is a British product : according to the Mail on Sunday , the thing comes from Codemasters Software Ltd of Leamington Spa , whose share of the $15m award to Lewis Galoob came to $3.4m ; Codemasters now has sights on Japan . |
| 14 | In July the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity agreed to ask the national parliaments of Western Europe to lend their voices to the argument . |
| 15 | The executive responsible is a member of the Board assigned to ensure the successful progress and completion of the project . |
| 16 | This may again be necessary for work with learning resources , but librarians and experienced teachers will in any case want to stress the absolute necessity of previous detailed checking to see that the resources likely to be helpful and required are actually available . |
| 17 | Thus , providers will not have any responsibility to plan to meet the needs of a particular population , but will , of course , require business planning to secure and fulfil contracts and to attract and treat extra-contract referrals . |
| 18 | The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living . |
| 19 | The four switching transistors in the bridge require separate base drives to amplify the two ( positive and negative ) phase control signals . |
| 20 | Accordingly , the Buyer agrees to take the goods in their current state , after having satisfied himself by inspection , as to their quality and fitness for the purpose for which the Buyer requires them . |
| 21 | At the very least the seller agrees that the buyer shall become the owner and the buyer agrees to pay the price . |
| 22 | ‘ This is one more example of our ability and willingness to continue to support the UN in the cause of peace . ’ |
| 23 | The opposition also emphasized that the referendum failed to address the issue of the 10,000 US troops stationed in the Panama canal zone and the need to provide for the future security of the canal when it came under complete Panamanian control at the turn of the century . |
| 24 | The Brownings have no room in the Casa Guidi should they ever be willing to shelter him and in any case intend to follow the Storys for another winter in Rome ( entailing another in Florence alone for me ) . |
| 25 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |
| 26 | HUNDREDS OF heavy metal fans were left stranded at Derby Station last Saturday when British Rail failed to run the usual special train to London after the massive Donington Monsters of Rock festival . |
| 27 | Significant budget measures included a 26 per cent increase in foreign exchange made available at auction , a measure expected to stabilize the naira ; the end of state funding for the two political parties ( the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention ) ; and a doubling of the minimum wage ( from the level of N125 per month set in 1981 ) for public-sector employees . |
| 28 | ‘ But after a long deliberation of all the circumstances , the Board agreed to sanction the contest on the conditions laid down . ’ |
| 29 | If the 3rd parameter is set to FALSE access to all information with respect to a DC will be restricted to users who are interested in the DC , ie. the user who submitted the DC , any assessors of the DC and any user asked to approve the DC . |
| 30 | Interested users of a DC are the creator of a DC , any user who subsequently owns the DC , any user who is the manager of a module referenced by the DC , any user who is the manager of a package which references directly a module referenced by the DC , and any user asked to approve the package through which the DC was activated . |