Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the firm wishes to stimulate creativity then the compliance rewards are not effective ( indeed , can be counterproductive ) and the job satisfaction rewards of challenge , stretch , autonomy are important . |
| 2 | Sir Denis will be able to have his round of golf from now on without the hassle of sneaking clubs out the side exit of Number 10 . |
| 3 | She was just pushing down the lid and trying to close the catches with fumbling fingers when the door swung open . |
| 4 | They can produce repeat prescriptions when the doctor so authorises . |
| 5 | Mash tuns or Kieves ( a Dublin term possibly inherited from the 17th century Huguenot brewers ) are essentially great big strainers or filtering vessels where the mash is allowed to ‘ stand-in ’ , in much the same way as a pot of tea is allowed to ‘ draw ’ . |
| 6 | This will be achieved by abolishing the court warning against uncorroborated evidence , widening the definition of rape within marriage , and using video-links so the accuser need not face the accused , an attack on the fundamental principles of jurisprudence . |
| 7 | Sitting in Pat 's front room , surrounded by her nine Labradors , many of whom are rescue cases themselves , I asked Pat how the charity had been formed and what the situation was at present . |
| 8 | A section on north east Estonia — The environment i pain — highlights cases where the concentration of some harmful substances in the air exceeds permissible levels by up to 1000-fold . |
| 9 | Many investigations involve cases where the evidence is incontestable . |
| 10 | Thus to the expository lesson , the period of exercise and drill , the set readings from the class textbook , the tests of memory and comprehension , and all the other useful ploys of the good teacher , have now been added sessions when the student is placed in direct confrontation with a variety of information sources , print.form , audio visual and three-dimensional , in small groups or on his own , in a situation which requires his active involvement and which can to a greater or lesser extent be tailored to meet his individual needs . |
| 11 | The discussion will include areas where the pattern recogniser could be improved , and will describe methods used to implement some of these ideas . |
| 12 | They helped sort out the money . |
| 13 | This suggests that critical evaluation has point where the object in question is attributable to some person or group of persons . |
| 14 | Secondly , their process of anchoring changes fundamentally the nature of common sense . |
| 15 | You say things just the way I sense them and ca n't say them . |
| 16 | Are they too eager to help the client ? ( 7 ) Do you have a system for keeping the witness informed of the progress of the claim where trial is likely to be delayed ? ( 8 ) Do you know dates when the witness may not be available to give evidence ? ( 9 ) Do you have sufficient information to contact the witness at short notice on the eve of trial ? |
| 17 | Paying off the mortgage created difficulties when the income from the farm declined during the bad times , which was more often than not , when prices fell for our sheep , cattle and produce . |
| 18 | Most teachers and headteachers welcome some sort of value added comparison i.e. the value added to a pupil 's educational achievements after entering the school . |
| 19 | GBH covers situations where the skin is not broken as in Wood ( 1830 ) 172 ER 749 , where a collar bone was broken . |
| 20 | The Colonel explained that he was still waiting for orders , and the General swore like the trooper he had once been and said that a French officer did not need orders when the enemy was in plain sight . |
| 21 | Also , the aquifer itself is slightly elastic ; the pressure of the groundwater it contains forces apart the mineral grains and increases the volume of the pores slightly . |
| 22 | In other words , we can not show a recurrent semantic contrast , although it is , of course , possible to find sentences where the substitution of forms can be made without a recurrence of the semantic contrast : |
| 23 | ‘ Corporate is willing to trust divisions when the going is smooth , but not when it 's rough . ’ |
| 24 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 25 | Matron again helped pupils when the Headmaster was n't looking . |
| 26 | There is something very special about climbing hills where the sea plays a major part in the surrounding scenery . |
| 27 | The red colobus , however , needs fruit all the year round and takes it from a greater variety of dispersed tree species ; it thus requires a larger range which can support a correspondingly larger troop . |
| 28 | For the first time in his career , John Harwood now has premises where the public can see his high standards for themselves . |
| 29 | That is um if you erm if you make children er sort of lie down on their fronts with their bums in their air and you and bums in their air and you touch anuses apparently the anus dilates , or it can do , erm allegedly in children who 've been sexually abused in that way , in children who 've been who 've been penetrated anally . |
| 30 | The Ministry of Culture and the Banca Toscana have recently signed a long awaited agreement whereby the bank is to sponsor the restoration of Cimabue 's ‘ Maestà ’ . |