Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If £1 billion of Treasury bills are sold to the discount houses , the discount houses will borrow money at call from the banks , or sell bills to the banks , to pay for these Treasury bills . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 3 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 4 | Robert-Jean de Vogüé and Maurice Doyard , both members of the Commission de Châlons , convinced the German authorities that the Commission was powerless and unable to influence the trade on any matters raised , or to issue orders on the Führer 's behalf or from other agencies of the occupation forces . |
| 5 | So , a representative of the authority is entitled to be present at the taking of the evidence ; for example , the authority may wish to ensure that there is no infringement of his State 's sovereignty or security , or to uphold privileges of the witness . |
| 6 | For the transatlantic marriages , several dictionaries of American expressions are available , enabling you to eliminate Americanisms , explain yourself to American listeners , or make jokes about the differences between Americanisms and conventional English language . |
| 7 | You can isolate a section of the design and repeat it within the grid area , or make repeats of the whole design . |
| 8 | Some colour combinations clash or make parts of the screen unreadable , so make notes of any changes you make . |
| 9 | The Bank will either rediscount ( that is , buy ) some of the bills or make loans against the security of such bills . |
| 10 | ‘ Map ’ is the button to press for routing MIDI messages to other machines or relocating patches within the JMP-1 itself . |
| 11 | And that includes older people , who are not yet confirmed or made members of the church . |
| 12 | Its 12-member Monetary Policy Committee ( MPC ) , modelled on the Federal Reserve 's Open Market Committee , will be a ‘ sanctuary ’ at the heart of the bank , he says , forbidden — along with other senior bank officials — from seeking or accepting instructions from the government or any other body . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 14 | Opportunities to take seriously such issues as girls and science or the merits of negotiated assessment , or to acquire skills in the areas of active tutorial work or special educational needs are few and far between , and often have to be carved out of evenings and weekends . |
| 15 | The Crown Prosecution Service were informed of Buckley J. 's order and of the plaintiffs ' intention to appeal from the decision of Wright J. , and were asked whether they wished to intervene or make representations in the appeal . |
| 16 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 17 | Either or both will do a fine job of picking off enemy war machines or lobbing missiles into the middle of key enemy units . |
| 18 | ‘ I emphasise that this incident occurred in redundant plant and is not associated with the normal or planned operations on the Sellafield site . ’ |
| 19 | Where all parties consent , the court may make , vary or revoke directions without the need for attendance at court . |
| 20 | My predecessor took me carefully aside to explain that this device was part of a plot by the Director of Education either to drive him from his place or to impose comprehensives on the whole campus . |
| 21 | The House had radically amended the bill in April 1990 by lifting almost all restrictions on off-duty political activity , but the version passed in the Senate — by 67 votes to 30 on May 10 — retained prohibitions against running for partisan political office or soliciting funds from the public . |
| 22 | Such duties derive from decisions of the Courts of Chancery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , intended to ensure that persons/trustees who held assets or provided services for the benefit of others did so in good faith and for the benefit of those they represented . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the controlling or checking functions of the judicial branch can only consist in impartial application of the law , and where constitutional law places restrictions on legislative power , a duty to declare the law seems to imply a duty to declare when such restrictions have been violated , whether by the legislature or by anyone else . |
| 24 | The stone walling blocks , available in a variety of sizes , or build steps to the exact dimensions from concrete , for which you will have to set up formwork . |
| 25 | If you would like details of your nearest local group so as to be able to help them in activities such as this or to write letters on the cases that they are campaigning on behalf please contact : |
| 26 | Economic effects : loss to community of school-related jobs , income , or services ; difficulty in attracting workers or keeping workers in the community . |
| 27 | Equally unavoidable is the conviction that it is not in the public interest for any profession to become the subject of so much unwarranted regulation and criticism ( not to mention claims ) that it is unable to retain or recruit individuals of the required calibre . |
| 28 | You can also colour-code or underline parts of the word which might cause difficulty , and can comment on the tricky bit when you record . |
| 29 | Essentially , deixis concerns the ways in which languages encode or grammaticalize features of the context of utterance or speech event , and thus also concerns ways in which the interpretation of utterances depends on the analysis of that context of utterance . |
| 30 | The rest idled along , hopping a few yards and then pausing to nibble or to pass droppings on the warm , sunny grass . |