Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , do n't forget that DOL is potentially a good managerial prospect … maybe a Strach-DOL partnership … that 'll be interesting … ‘ heard the one about the Irishman & the Scotsman managing a footbal team … ’ : - ) |
| 2 | Resolving these issues without generating revolts on the part of the gentry or the peasantry required a balancing act which tested the regime to the limits . |
| 3 | She had dropped stitches continually in her knitting ( she was knitting a yellow angora sweater for Victoria ) and started whenever the shop-bell jangled or the parakeet muttered a few words to itself . |
| 4 | In such a case it is possible for either the seller or the buyer to commit an anticipatory breach of contract , i.e. to repudiate the contract before the time for performance . |
| 5 | There is no real bargaining if one side or the other holds a total or overwhelming position . |
| 6 | This can be useful to the learner-reader , providing extra cues to the text , and to ‘ the learner-learner ’ — the person learning to gather and process ideas , or the person entering a new field of knowledge or experience . |
| 7 | The Quality Audit of a centre will take place at regular intervals , probably around every five years ( unless either SCOTVEC or the centre triggers an earlier event . ) |
| 8 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 9 | If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great . |
| 10 | If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great . |
| 11 | Of these the most important was Abydos and either the pilgrimage to Abydos was depicted on the walls of the tomb or the deceased erected a stele along the great processional way at Abydos which led to the tomb of Osiris . |
| 12 | Their case is that they were effectively forced to er complete unwillingly without the or the finance to make a go of the business and they suffered the losses which are claimed er set out in heading form initially on page sixty two of the pleadings bundle in further and better particulars . |
| 13 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 14 | Some less culpable forms of bad driving might also be labelled ‘ reckless ’ , such as a momentary dozing-off at the wheel , or the failure to notice a pedestrian on a crossing . |
| 15 | By promising the Jacobites that he would seek to get James Francis Stuart acknowledged as Anne 's successor , he not only won Jacobite support at home , but was also able to neutralise the Jacobite threat abroad , by making it appear that there was no point in St Germain or the French attempting an invasion . |
| 16 | The third jet is evidently created when either the quark or the antiquark radiates a gluon , which in its turn creates another shower of particles . |
| 17 | The US , having failed to persuade Britain or the OEEC to pursue a customs union , gave strong support to the Schuman Plan . |
| 18 | Rumour and speculation can affect the target 's and the offeror 's share prices ; upset employees , customers , suppliers and other third parties who deal with the company ; and may even force the offeror or the target to make a premature announcement . |
| 19 | Not the time or the place to expect a violent gang attack on a pensioner . |
| 20 | " So either Lorrimer let in his murderer or the murderer had a key . " |
| 21 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 22 | In cases falling within this protected class , equity would hold the security given by the surety to be unenforceable by the creditor if : ( i ) the relationship between the debtor and the surety and the consequent likelihood of influence and reliance was known to the creditor ; and ( ii ) the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by undue influence or material misrepresentation on the part of the debtor or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction ; and ( iii ) the creditor , whether by leaving it to the debtor to deal with the surety or otherwise , had failed to take reasonable steps to try and ensure that the surety entered into the transaction with an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction and that the surety 's consent to the transaction was a true and informed one . |
| 23 | Where a product is effectively a " commodity " ( as is the case with many foodstuffs ) , or the consumer perceives a number of alternative brands to be easily substituted ( as with paint , do-it-yourself products , electronic calculators , video recorders or home computers ) , then volume production and marketing may determine who will dominate the market . |
| 24 | For hygiene reasons , recycled material is only used in food packaging if the contents are plastic wrapped or the cardboard has a protective lining . |
| 25 | These in turn are supported by an array of lightweight silver oxide/zinc storage batteries , which store energy provided by the solar cells and provide back-up power for when the sun is not shining or the car faces a gradient . |
| 26 | No security dealer may deal in securities where it acted as an issuing house or in securities issued by itself , or in securities issued by another company where the trader holds an equity interest in excess of 10 per cent . |
| 27 | Annuities generally issued from lay land , and a technical distinction was evidently maintained at Water Stratford , Bucks. , where the abbot had a pension of 6s. 8d. as well as an annuity of 4s . |
| 28 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 29 | But the requirement may equally well be satisfied where the promisee confers a benefit on the promisor without in fact suffering any detriment . ’ |
| 30 | Where the licensee holds a residential or restaurant licence it can lead to disqualification of the licensee . |