Example sentences of "[num] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the James Committee in 1976 and the Criminal Law Revision Committee in 1980 recommended the abolition of the offence of causing death by reckless driving , thereby accepting the ‘ illogicality ’ argument . |
| 2 | Thereafter section 433 of the Act of 1986 renders the evidence admissible . |
| 3 | Having regard to the true construction of section 9 of the Act , the House concluded that the refusal of the council to make a refund was not in accordance with the statutory intention and so affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 593 allowing the taxpayers ' claim for judicial review of the decision . |
| 4 | The women were interviewed in early 1971 using the interview schedule reproduced in Appendix II ; the interviews were tape-recorded and lasted on average about two hours . |
| 5 | First , the abolition of government restrictions on bank lending in 1980 paved the way for the banks to move forcefully into the mortgage market . |
| 6 | Table 4.10 summarizes the holdings at various dates across the period . |
| 7 | About half the 2,000-strong French workforce are employed building Enterprise Systems , with another 500 handling the manufacture of the integrated circuit modules . |
| 8 | Around half the 2,000-strong workforce are employed building Enterprise Systems , with another 500 handling the manufacture of multi-layer ceramic-mounted multi-chip modules . |
| 9 | It was constructed by Telford ( q.v. ) in 1796 to carry the Shrewsbury Canal over the River Tern , and was very much a piece of engineering experiment at the time , to be carried to glorious triumph in the simultaneous building of the great aqueduct at Pont Cysyllte ( q.v . ) . |
| 10 | It was reported on April 7 that Lithuania 's Supreme Council had voted by a majority of 70 to suspend the mandate of Deputy Virgilijus Cepaitis . |
| 11 | Hamilton 's new record of 1.06.98 eclipsed the time set by Marion Madine by 0.09 secs . |
| 12 | Chirk Aqueduct , built in 1796–1801 to carry the Ellesmere Canal across the River Ceirog , is still one of the fine pieces of engineering work carried out by Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) – It has ten arches each of forty foot span , and the masonry structure supports a cast-iron trough carrying the canal . |
| 13 | The Times of 24 September 1869 reported the Admiralty trials of the propeller when fitted to HMS Druid , and the part played by Henrietta even though she was a married woman . |
| 14 | The " Ostpolitik " which won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 involved the negotiation of treaties renouncing German territorial claims to the east , in Czechoslovakia , Poland and the then Soviet Union , as well as the 1972 Basic Treaty with East Germany . |
| 15 | Figure 6.1 illustrates the type of patten revealed by PCA . |
| 16 | The Insolvency Act 1986 covers the procedures to be followed when closing a company . |
| 17 | A dumping incident in 1980 goaded the government into action on the EEC wastes directives . |
| 18 | Mutations in several Pax genes lead to severe developmental abnormalities : ( 1 ) a mutation in the paired box of murine Pax-1 leads to the undulated phenotype which exhibits distortions of the vertebral column ; ( 2 ) a mutation in the Pax-6 gene leads to the semidominant Small eye phenotype in mouse and a mutation in the putative human homologue of this gene may be responsible for the aniridia disorder ; ( 3 ) mutations in the putative human homologue to Pax-3 ( HuP2 ) occasionally lead to hearing loss associated with Waardenburg 's syndrome , whereas in mouse a deletion in Pax-3 causes the splotch phenotype which is associated with spina bifida , exencephaly , a tail flexion defect and deficiencies in neural crest cell derivatives . |
| 19 | One hundred and twenty six patients ( 103 men , 23 women ) with a squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophageal treated at the Department of Surgery of the Heinrich-Heine-University until December 1986 entered the study . |
| 20 | The modernisation programme in the Thirties involved the introduction , not only of the single-deck railcoaches , but also some types uniquely suited to the seaside . |
| 21 | Section 109 contains the requirements for the appointment of an independent valuer ( who must be an accountant qualified to be the auditor of that company ) and the contents of his report . |
| 22 | One of the eight described the importance of the school for the flow of information through the community . |
| 23 | A well-known newspaper article in 1935 announcing the closure referred to the family atmosphere of the line . |
| 24 | The 14 categories were thus collapsed into six as shown in Table 4.5 to increase the number of responses in each category . |
| 25 | The Slovak parliament on Nov. 15 passed a resolution approving its presidium 's position , but on Nov. 19 the Slovak government nevertheless voted by 12 to eight to accept the view that the treaty was a basis for discussion , rather than a legal document ; it also agreed to concede further powers to the common state . |
| 26 | A feasibility study completed earlier in 1986 demonstrated the viability of the project and the value of the information on the small enterprise owner and self-employed which can be obtained through such a procedure . |
| 27 | William III , helped by the ‘ Protestant wind ’ that kept the English navy pinned in harbour while William 's Dutch fleet could choose a convenient place to land , was able to carry out a successful invasion with quite a substantial military force , so the events of the 1680s underlined the possibility that James II might be able to make a successful return from exile . |
| 28 | As far as registered land is concerned r110 of the Land Registration Rules 1925 covers the position : On a transfer of land subject to a charge or other incumbrance appearing on the register … covenants by either party to pay the money owing and to indemnify the other party may be added to the instrument of transfer and may be noted on the register . |
| 29 | He led an army of some 18,000 to meet the Scots at Pinkie , six miles east of Edinburgh . |
| 30 | Having failed as surveyor-general , Worsley made an unsuccessful attempt in 1659 to secure the Post Office farm surrendered by John Thurloe [ q.v . ] . |