Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 2 | They looked impressive in seeing off Malahide in the semi-final and the five-pronged bowling attack will most likely be unchanged for the final , which begins on Saturday . |
| 3 | a child in utero is to be treated as already born thereby having a right to sue for damages for the death of his father . |
| 4 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 5 | It was also planned to rationalise operations in the UK , but Mr Heneaghan gave an assurance that Edinburgh , where his company employs five people , would remain as headquarters for the combined operation . |
| 6 | These hospitals would remain as part of the NHS , but would be given the freedom to run themselves . |
| 7 | Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things . |
| 8 | Mr Shute is assuming the chairmanship of Ross from Ross Marks , the company 's 37-year-old founder , who will remain as chairman of the consumer electronics operations and a director of the group . |
| 9 | Bush accepted the resignation " with reluctance , regret , and a sense of personal loss " , and announced that Sununu would remain as counsellor to the President with Cabinet rank until March 1992 , in order to assist with the transition of responsibilities to his successor . |
| 10 | But George Bartlett , QC , for the NGC , said : ‘ The inquiry 's time and cost would not be saved , because whether or not we express a preference for one of them , they will remain as alternatives before the secretary of State . |
| 11 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 13 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 14 | For in matrilineal societies where kinship is traced through women on the mother 's side of the family , the mother 's brother does not usually behave in this fashion towards his sororal nephew . |
| 15 | He reserved his deadliness for dealing with opponents in his own party , and had little to spare for use against the MacDonald governments . |
| 16 | We 'll have to wait for permission from the expatriate lady in Sweden . ’ |
| 17 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 18 | Entrusting the decision in unfair dismissal cases to tribunals was a conscious decision designed to include as part of the decision-making process the industrial experience of employers and employees . |
| 19 | We also need to understand any terms and conditions you wish to include as part of the deal structure . |
| 20 | The services offered are often generic and when it comes to competing for work from the SSD , ‘ being a Jack of all trades does n't fit easily into the contracting culture ’ . |
| 21 | Within a year , in the summer of 1987 , Brannen was competing for Britain in the European Junior Championships . |
| 22 | Shankill player Cowan , the former Irish Junior number one , is no longer eligible for Junior events and welcomes the opportunity to share the team bench with the legendary Slevin , now competing for Lubeck in the German National League . |
| 23 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 24 | Some 30 hopefuls from each age group will be selected for the finals , with the players competing for places in the Under-21 matches against Scotland and Wales , and the Under-18s United Kingdom and England tournament in Scotland . |
| 25 | Four crews are also competing for places in the Canadian doubles category though none has yet reached the required Olympic qualifying standard . |
| 26 | Neufville ran for Cambridge Harriers in South East London though she opted for competing for Jamaica in the prestigious games . |
| 27 | Despite the wealth of evidence that nuclear power can never under-price fossil fuel-generated electricity , BNFL is looking at ways of competing for supply in the open market . |
| 28 | Medium-sized local radio stations in cities could find themselves competing for revenue with the newcomer , it added . |
| 29 | Thus Weber 's ( bureaucratic ) priests and ( charismatic ) prophets are producers of ‘ symbolic goods ’ competing for consumers among the ‘ laity ’ . ? |
| 30 | Yet other Douglas robber barons continued to indulge in their own intrigues against king and country , in the ‘ almost aimless treachery ’ , as Andrew Lang describes it , which ‘ endured for centuries from the reign of David II to that of James VI ’ . |