Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately from his viewpoint he lacked the skill to handle the matter and the result was a catastrophic decline in his reputation . |
| 2 | The ANC 's letter described it as inconceivable that the authorities lacked the capacity to stop the factional fighting , in which 1,200 people had died in the past seven months . |
| 3 | Gates challenged the move in the courts and , on the following day , the Los Angeles city council ( which lacked the authority to overturn the Police Commission decision , but was responsible for the settlement of lawsuits ) ordered the city attorney to settle the suit in favour of Gates . |
| 4 | The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies . |
| 5 | In the run up , DEC will put in place a campaign aimed at independent software vendors , OEMs and other technology partners which will stress the ability to run the catalogue of Unix SVR4 applications on the personality , plus OSF/1 software , from within the same environment . |
| 6 | It fits the mystique surrounding the man that the mineral deposits were found through apparent chance . |
| 7 | This created an entirely new situation in which few saw any purpose in pursuing the attempt to build the structures envisaged at Leeds . |
| 8 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 9 | I know I unlocked the cupboard to get the morphia at about eleven in the morning . ’ |
| 10 | Every action which is accepted as kindly , every individual act of devotion and sacrifice , whether made in the havoc of war or in times of peace , every act of generosity and in fact every good thing which has resulted from the endless struggle to uphold the decision to master the violent and lustful urges which are a legacy from the evolutionary process , will play its part in providing units of goodness to be enshrined in the Created God . |
| 11 | This simply involved ticking in the relevant box if the subject has ticked the correspondingly numbered box on the ‘ Recognition Sheet ’ , allowing the experimenter to identify the number of correctly recognised words in each of the categories . |
| 12 | Restorers set up a temporary studio in the northwest end of the nave , with a glass wall allowing the public to follow the work in progress . |
| 13 | Shortly after this , in 1821 , he began a series of experiments at Carrickfergus distillery on the design of a new type of still , with the twofold objective of allowing the distiller to check the strength of the spirit without requiring to have access to it , and securing the various parts of the still against any abstraction of the contents . |
| 14 | Pressing S4 before or after this moment , or holding it down all the time , will have no effect on allowing the ball to pass the bat and scatter the stumps ! |
| 15 | The campaigners from Horseheath , near Haverhill , found support from their MP in their battle to stop South Cambridgeshire District Council revoking a licence allowing the village to use the 1.3 acre field so it can build on part of it . |
| 16 | Both varieties bear leaves of the same basic shape , but whereas the leaves on the Chardonnay are concave , turning upwards at the edges allowing the underside to obscure the upper surface , the leaves on the Pinot Blanc are not . |
| 17 | Instead of acquiring a statutory tenancy the successor acquires a new assured tenancy allowing the landlord to charge the new tenant a market rent . |
| 18 | the tenancy must not contain any provision allowing the landlord to terminate the tenancy within six months of the beginning of the tenancy |
| 19 | He said the yard 's remaining 1,800 jobs and more than 4,000 in companies which supply Swan Hunter were very much in danger and called on the Government to guarantee the remaining jobs by allowing the yard to complete the three frigates and by bringing forward future MoD orders . |
| 20 | Many manufacturers offer packs with adjustable harnesses , allowing the wearer to get the correct fit . |
| 21 | Hardwick visited Stockport regularly while the work was in progress , allowing the Clerk to pay the builders in instalments : £600 on 11th November , £400 on 13th January , 1831 £600 on 24th March , £800 on 30th June . |
| 22 | It 's much more ‘ natural ’ , allowing the owner to appreciate the feel of the wood used . |
| 23 | His Honour John Slack in allowing the appeal told the RSPCA that it needed to clean up its act if it was to secure future prosecutions . |
| 24 | Tretorn accept that the Association should have the right to choose the right ball on quality criteria in conjunction with the specifications laid out by the International Tennis Federation , ( which Tretorn balls meet ) , but feels that allowing the LTA to choose the type of ball , could lead to unfair discrimination against its permanent pressure variety . |
| 25 | But after a separate decree issued last month , allowing the president to postpone the election in the event of disorder , these measures have added to the doubts of those who say the transition will not happen . |
| 26 | After transmitting a Mayday call a run-on landing in a field was made , but this was heavy and both skids bent , allowing the fuselage to contact the ground . |
| 27 | The limitations of individual recovery at common law led some courts to develop a rule allowing the corporation to recover the insider 's profits by way of a derivative action which encompassed the situation where the insider traded on impersonal stock markets . |
| 28 | For instance , a contract of sale might include a term allowing the seller to alter the delivery date . |
| 29 | A party may also avoid being in breach by including clauses giving it a unilateral right to change the contents of the contractual obligations , such as clauses allowing the seller to change the delivery date , deliver a different quantity from that ordered by the buyer , alter colours , specifications etc. ( b ) Excluding liability A second alternative is for a clause to state , baldly , that a contracting party is not to be liable , or responsible , for stipulated acts . |
| 30 | Its magical chain is about 18ft long , allowing the Daemonette to reach the central stairwell and most of the half of the room in which the chair stands at any time ; when the adventurers arrive , the chair will be as shown on the map . |