Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State prosecutors on Sept. 24 filed a further seven counts of tax evasion against her , claiming that she had failed to pay taxes amounting to US$205 million on her income for 1985-86 and on the estate left by her late husband . |
| 2 | ( 6 ) If over 49 per cent of the voting rights could be obtained , the offer document must contain specific and prominent reference to this and to the fact that if the offer succeeds the offeror will be free , subject to Rule 36.3 ( which prohibits purchases during a period of 12 months after the end of the offer period ) , to acquire further shares without incurring an obligation to make a mandatory offer ( Rule 36.6 ) . |
| 3 | The dominance of the agro-export business and the patterns of land ownership are primarily to blame for this and for the abandonment of traditional , more ecologically sound , forms of cultivation and pest control . |
| 4 | What I want to , for you to do , is to pass this and for the C E C to look at providing some education specifically to the administration and the running of branches . |
| 5 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 6 | The best example of this and of the way in which Switchboard tends to mirror the mainstream gay ( and still mainly male ) community lies in the organization 's response to AIDS . |
| 7 | The exterior work is largely restored but the interior decoration in the apse is mainly original and consists of marble , porphyry and mother-of-pearl inlay on the lower part of the walls and mosaic above this and in the semi-dome . |
| 8 | Lord Aldington opposed this and in the end Mr Justice Morritt agreed with him . |
| 9 | Steroids were begun soon after this and in the absence of further relapse it is possible that they have had an effect on the disease . |
| 10 | From this and from the particle 's measured lifetime , physicists at CERN have deduced that there are only three families of fundamental particles . |
| 11 | asserted that in the present time the defendant 's liability in Rylands v. Fletcher itself ‘ could simply have been placed on the defendant 's failure of duty to take reasonable care , ’ and it seems a logical inference from this and from the judgment as a whole that the Court of Appeal considered the rule to have no useful function in modern times . |
| 12 | However , housing conditions were much improved by this and by the clearance of some 700 slum dwellings . |
| 13 | In this and throughout the rest of the issue , I wish you good reading . |
| 14 | This should be as short as practicable , clear and to the point . |
| 15 | Most newspapers comment however was clear and to the point . |
| 16 | It was also clear and to the point , the simple point being that property values are so high in London and the south-east that in all equity there must be some special weighting to account for them . |
| 17 | He grabbed her collar , dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll . |
| 18 | Yet everything he talked of was clear and at the tip of his tongue . |
| 19 | Posi 's cheerful voice , clear and over the mini-comm in the pendant . |
| 20 | Her response was pithy and to the point . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the margin of seats in the Senate was slim and in the House , despite an impressive surge by the Republicans , the Democrats were still ahead by 51 seats . |
| 22 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 23 | ‘ The Government must recognise that training is the way forward both for the long-term unemployed and for the business community . ’ |
| 24 | Josh was still bewildered by the sudden change in living standard from California sun and the constant care of cheerful Kathy ( now working for another family in nearby Markham Square ) to the stuffy flat in Pimlico where his babysitter , Mrs Gooden , a retired cook , watched over Josh and her other six little charges , one of whom always seemed to be bare-bottomed and on the potty . |
| 25 | The task should be specific , interesting and within the group 's capability . |
| 26 | Tsoy is half-Korean and from the underbelly of Leningrad 's punk community : he used to accompany the band Swine on rhythm guitar in 1981 . |
| 27 | It is similar in type to the Czech Pied and to the Aosta Red Pied of Italy , and is related to the Montbéliard . |
| 28 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 29 | They heard Fats Domino on the radio and tried to copy him but they got the bass drum and the snare all wrong and in the end they created this new music . |
| 30 | I could n't find what was wrong and in the end I gave up and started to walk home . |