Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 2 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 3 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 4 | … whether a valuation … is binding … must depend on the terms of the contract ( including any implied terms ) , on the nature of any circumstances relied on to vitiate the valuation , and the nature of the proceedings on which the issue arises . |
| 5 | I hold that on an appeal to the High Court under the Children Act 1989 the only findings of fact and the only reasons that may be relied on to support the decision of the justices under appeal , are those announced by the justices in accordance with rule 21 . |
| 6 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 7 | The curious facts of Ipswich v Fisons were being relied on to support the distinction . |
| 8 | But where the pre-existing obligation is a contractual duty owed to a third party , some other ground of public policy must be relied on to invalidate the consideration ( if otherwise legal ) … |
| 9 | Free-scoring Ally McCoist has a modest international record — only 13 goals from 43 games — and no-one else can be relied on to fire the bullets . |
| 10 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 11 | These readjustments , carried out between June and August , laid down in outline the areas where Richard was to be active for the rest of the reign . |
| 12 | These readjustments , carried out between June and August , laid down in outline the areas where Richard was to be active for the rest of the reign . |
| 13 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 14 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 15 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |
| 16 | He had questioned Ashenden in detail for several minutes about the crucial phone call with Kemp , and asked him to write down in dialogue-form the exchanges as far as he could recall them . |
| 17 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 18 | The following sortie , on the 14/16th , was to bomb the synthetic oil plant at Merseburg-Leuna , diverting on its return to East Moor in Yorkshire along with other aircraft of the Squadron , returning back to base the following day . |
| 19 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 20 | Following preliminary interviews , the analysts will be able to construct models and attempt to find out in outline the information needs of the organisation . |
| 21 | Do your best to find out in advance the names of people you are going to meet . |
| 22 | But if Russia falls into anarchy or lurches back into despotism the price that we pay could be frightening . ’ |
| 23 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 24 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 25 | After an uncomfortable night tossing about on board the steamer , on arrival Mrs Gould , her maid Mary , and the baby were lodged at an inn in Newcastle , while Gould took the opportunity of visiting some of the islands in the estuary . |
| 26 | We will pay you 2,000 for seeing through to completion the data files from the submitted ASCII files for the first four titles of Reading for English , 50% of this on signature of this letter and 50% on delivery . |
| 27 | A housewarming was impulsively decided on to mark the arrival of the new Alfoxden tenants , and on about 17 July Coleridge , seeking ‘ change of air ’ , arrived from Stowey in anticipation of the event . |
| 28 | Before the action came on for trial the defendant applied for an adjustment of his liabilities under the Liabilities ( Wartime Adjustment ) Act 1941 . |
| 29 | The decade began with congress passing various bills that sought to cut off funding for the Vietnam War and in 1973 legislators moved on to pass the War Powers Act over president Nixon 's veto . |
| 30 | Having studied the sunspots and the solar prominences , in a race with the Frenchman P. J. C. Janssen , Lockyer then moved on to claim the existence of a new element in the sun , helium . |