Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period of the 1940s and the 1950s was to produce what Samuel Beer has referred to as the welfare state and the managed economy , or what some commentators have referred to as the period of the social democratic consensus . |
| 2 | Well , there 's nothing , as I understand it there is nothing in the Law Society guidelines but there are certainly references in the professional conduct guidelines which Mr has referred to in the course of this report er which referred to the extent of solicitors in the situation . |
| 3 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 4 | On the move : has transferred from to the personnel department . |
| 5 | Not very many sub-conversions have yet been done as I understand it and my source of information about the levels of conversion is solely from Mrs , called on behalf of the defendants and her real source of information is simply one family whom she has talked to on the telephone about it , who find the levels conversion of their Nissan Serena perfectly satisfactory for their twenty year old daughter . |
| 6 | Subsequent matches depend on where one has got to in the description . |
| 7 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |
| 8 | DISNEY says it has a minor dispute with a few of the hundreds of contractors it has dealt with on the project . |
| 9 | Grubby brown chipboard has emerged from under the designer fitted units and the cobalt blue Mexican tiles appear to have rusted . |
| 10 | In our example if the assumed regime break occurs we can discriminate between the two models by testing the implication that the coefficient on in equation ( 3.16 ) has increased to after the regime break . |
| 11 | Ohrid , the deepest lake in Yugoslavia ( 286 m ( 935 ft ) at its greatest depth ) is of great scientific interest , as it contains a species of trout which , like the omul in Lake Baikal , has survived from before the last Ice Age , the lake having being formed during the Tertiary period . |
| 12 | However , few musical laudarios are extant , and only one of Florentine provenance has survived from before the 15th century : the renowned , luxuriantly decorated early 14th-century manuscript , MS Banco Rari 18 , which belonged , rather surprisingly , to one of the more modest Florentine companies , the Compagnie delle laude di Santo Spirito . |
| 13 | A compromise on this issue , they wrote , would damage all that the French Republic has stood for since the Revolution . |
| 14 | Here the Athenian artist ( the face is directly in the tradition of the calf-bearer ) has learnt from beyond the Aegean to realise the body under the clothes but has rejected the elaborate schema . |
| 15 | The Thatcher administration , on the other hand , ‘ do not believe that the community as a whole should continue to pay for all sorts of things that it has paid for in the past … |
| 16 | Maggie turned round to find herself staring into the eyes she 'd stared into in the pub . |
| 17 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 18 | However , they are not PostScript typefaces and the quality is sometimes a little less than you have grown used to on the laser printer . |
| 19 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 20 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 21 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 22 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 23 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 24 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 25 | The amendment is very simple , members will have read it already before it gets flagged on on the wall . |
| 26 | However , that figure is a far cry from the 3,000 it had bet on getting rid of in the Orient or the couple of thousand forecast for the states . |
| 27 | But there is a bonus to that in that people hope that by testing their ideas about the uncertain physics , by building models of that early stage , that those models will have consequences for the things that get left behind in the universe for the present , and so they might be able to test their ideas about how matter behaves at very high density by using cosmology , and that 's very important because we have no other way of doing it . |
| 28 | The share of world refining accounted for by the majors fell from 51 per cent in 1973 to 38 per cent in 1980 . |
| 29 | However , Monday morning is also busy because of the number of premises that are found broken into after the weekend . |
| 30 | I 've adapted to change cos I would n't have stopped in in the job I was in . |