Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , investors from outside the Community , from places such as Japan , the United States and many others , look at the European Community and decide that the United Kingdom is by far the best place in which to invest due to the stability , skills and reliability of our work force .
2 However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc .
3 When the band became profitable on the road , it went back up .
4 For example , the placing of the head : a dynamic , powerful man should be made to fill the canvas , whereas children 's heads are better placed low on the canvas .
5 Group B is tight with Crusaders and Distillery level on four points each at the top ; Crues are away to Coleraine while the Whites visit Omagh knowing defeat will let in the Tyrone men .
6 Scott had heard little of the Judge 's summing up or , indeed , of his comments after the life sentence had been passed .
7 The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose .
8 So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech .
9 Possibly his mother had fallen asleep at the wheel .
10 AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 .
11 He was shocked to think he had fallen asleep over the table .
12 The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home .
13 The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall .
14 Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi .
15 Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years .
16 times six X because normally bring that to the front .
17 This is fully tax relievable in the employer 's hands so the liability nets down to £3,393 for the employer .
18 Using 1980 as the base year , sulphur dioxide reduction aims are as follows : 20 per cent by 1993 , 40 per cent by 1998 and 60 per cent by 2003 .
19 In 1983 , in an effort to get the ball rolling on realistic cuts , the Scandinavian countries proposed a 30 per cent reduction in sulphur emissions by 1993 , using 1980 as the baseline year .
20 But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed .
21 Both results are , of course , consistent with the competitive nature of commercial activity and can not , it is submitted , realistically be avoided if a measure of justice is to be accorded to the inventor whose endeavours remain unused by the employer .
22 He lifted his head and gazed unseeing towards the ceiling while his aide read a translation of his remarks from a sheet of paper .
23 ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room .
24 Be patient and remain strong in the knowledge that the universe knows what 's best for you .
25 By superimposing on these techniques an ideology and a practice of self-expression , Cream 's music seems to establish a dialectical relationship between the two , articulating each via the other into a new position — a position , perhaps , of ‘ fraternal individualism ’
26 In natural fibre-rich foods the taste-evoking substances appear to remain intact within the cell walls which have not been stripped away by refining processes .
27 Martin leaned forward , his face touching that of the angel 's , as he raised his arm to strike .
28 It was a dull , snowy night , with heavy grey clouds hanging low in the sky , the kind of night when hopes are destroyed and love is lost .
29 Intimate music-making by amateurs must have been practised much earlier , but never on the scale made possible by the invention of printing .
30 The biblical story is thought to reflect the then recent development of caravan routes , made possible by the domestication of the camel at the end of the first millennium BC .
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