Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 2 | The labour-only sub-contractor , however , although occasionally employed on an hourly rate , will invariably be allocated work on a unit rate or lump sum basis and will only be paid for the actual work produced . |
| 3 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 4 | In this case it is necessary to correct for the electrical energy supplied to ignite the sample . |
| 5 | However , as my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces said in the recent defence debate , under our restructuring proposals , the proportion of Scottish units in the Army overall will increase rather than decrease . |
| 6 | However , the Minister of State for the Armed Forces said , in answer to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Western Isles ( Mr. Macdonald ) : ’ Under the 1972 United States-Soviet ABM treaty and subsequent protocols , the Soviet Union is limited to a maximum of 100 ABM launchers located within a radius of 150 km around either the national capital or one area containing silo fields . |
| 7 | In reply , the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces gave me certain assurances . |
| 8 | The combination of the ‘ Carter Doctrine ’ , the outbreak of the Iran Iraq war and the proclaimed American intention to establish a rapid deployment force for the Middle East added appreciably to the dangers of a superpower confrontation in the Persian Gulf . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the industrial lobby warned that the amendments " will dramatically change our lifestyles and the way most companies do business . " |
| 10 | In 1985 Lord Cockfield as European Commissioner responsible for the Internal Market presented the White Paper ‘ Completing the Internal Market ’ . |
| 11 | The closure announcement came the day after the resignation of Timex 's British president , Peter Hall , the man who became a hate figure for the 343 workers sacked five months ago in a dispute over lay-offs and cuts in benefits . |
| 12 | Equally , it went through many of the same traumas as Britain in the 1960s and 1970s while the Thatcher crusade for the market-led economy found an echo not only in Reagan 's America , but in France , Australia , Spain , and even social-democratic Sweden . |
| 13 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the joint scheme said : ‘ We want to make it easier for British and Russian publishers to do business together by putting some funds into payment for rights . |
| 15 | It would take the easy way and go for the baited foot laid out for it … |
| 16 | Eight days before the choice Mains ' face seemed set in a state of shock , for the All Blacks had just escaped 24–21 from defeat by Ireland in the First Test . |
| 17 | Chapman 's search for the right man ended in 1929 when Preston put on transfer at £9,000 their ‘ Wembley Wizard ’ Alex James , the Scottish international who had been the bane of England at Wembley the year before , when Scotland won 5–1 . |
| 18 | Gordon went as a member of a party of 57 and presented his talk in an innovative way , starting with usual slide sequence with descriptions of the views , then for the second half showed a video that had been shot on the tour . |
| 19 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 20 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 21 | Hereford and Cheltenham both won on Saturday and in the draw for the second round United were out first … but no team ever likes going to Yeovil in the FA Cup … better news for Cheltenham … they 're at home to league opposition … and should fill the ground |
| 22 | Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident . |
| 23 | What is certain , however , is that Moltke , on 8 September , for the second time instructed a young staff officer , Lieutenant-Colonel Hentsch , to visit the command centres of all the German armies to assess the situation . |
| 24 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 25 | As soon as you have achieved this , you can completely cut out overtime payments and give people time off in lieu for the occasional overtime worked . |
| 26 | Behind the mill is a modest sized pond , partially brick lined , supplying water for the surviving iron overshot wheel , of approximately eight feet in diameter , along with its iron penstock . |
| 27 | Billy Butlin 's eye for the hedonistic package outstripped all competitors . |
| 28 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 29 | The union representing the performers were militantly opposed to British dancers taking work from them and there was a lean period for the sixteen Girls left . |
| 30 | If the government 's support for the landowning nobility perpetuated its age-old conflict with the peasantry , the direct corollary of its close alliance with industrial employers was confrontation with labour . |