Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gustave despised Du Camp for wanting the Légion d'honneur . |
| 2 | So immediately they 've made two hundred and fifty pounds a year er bonus by having the wife 's er name on the account . |
| 3 | Erm and so the , the project we 've put forward is that we will trial some of these indicators , to see whether they work , to see what they tell us , erm and therefore we would hopefully be able to improve these indicators , so that we think that they 're , they 're much better in order to er sort of shape the , the performance for the , the future services . |
| 4 | Do you have er sort of reduce the industrial . |
| 5 | And I thought you know and I think basically it 'd be er sort of assessing the value of buildings for council tax and things like that which is yeah |
| 6 | Maybe this time they 'll be a rather more serious effort in the European elections given that the er potential for influencing the outcome of the next leadership contest also lies in the balance there . |
| 7 | Denis Healey 's slogan about squeezing the rich until the pips squeak has been rewritten to include practically everyone . |
| 8 | Ferrari also brought along Giacomo Modugno , an Italian Olympic Committee medical commission member who , as an eye specialist , was prepared to give evidence about Mansell 's difficulty in seeing the flag signal ordering him to stop . |
| 9 | Charles hoped that George 's assumption was right , that Michael Banks 's difficulty in retaining the lines was just the product of laziness . |
| 10 | A further delaying factor was Noriega 's difficulty in finding the funds to pay his defence team . |
| 11 | The first reaction of the Royal Bank 's Board on receiving the document was to have it translated into Latin ! |
| 12 | However , this does not prevent the target 's board from criticising the buyer publicly and in circulars to its shareholders . |
| 13 | In addition , there is nothing to prevent the target 's board from withdrawing the scheme prior to the hearing of the petition if circumstances change ( for example , a higher competing offer being made ) . |
| 14 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , a Pyramid OEM partner , has already stolen some of the Mountain View , California-based company 's thunder by previewing the things at its annual fair back in May ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 15 | Shem 's technique for describing the life of the junior hospital doctor , derives from that modern American surrealism described earlier , while Douglas 's more restrained , more documentary style stems from the British tradition of Powell , Isherwood and Amis . |
| 16 | Owing to Minton 's technique of holding the design together through the use of a consistent low tone , the colours are darker than one would expect and suggest the kind of livid colouring that occurs just before a storm . |
| 17 | Just as Thomson transferred Stein 's literary abstraction to music , so these portraits unusually employ the painter 's technique of drawing the sitter from life : an ideal combination of Thomson 's habit of immediate response with an actual subject . |
| 18 | John Prescott has made the clearest pitch for the left 's support by defending the ‘ old vision ’ of socialism . |
| 19 | Joyce , frustrated , moved on to consideration of yesterday 's weather , complaints about the new trainee and an attempt to enlist Helen 's support in resisting the county librarian 's enthusiasm for a local history section at Spaxton . |
| 20 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 21 | Deriding the value of the committee of the regions , he tried to demolish Mr Salmond 's case for entering the Government lobby in exchange for SNP representation on the European committee , by repeating the comments he made on it when he was the party 's foreign affairs spokesman : ‘ I remember saying , with the approval of my leader , that it is merely an advisory body , advising another advisory body and has no powers of any kind . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Ponting 's case for sending the documents was that he felt that they showed that Parliament was being misled and misinformed about the Belgrano affair . |
| 23 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 24 | Her prodigious output included innumerable displays and talks , to which we , the performers , came with our blue silk tunics carefully folded round pieces of cardboard — Edith 's ruse for preserving the ‘ band-box ’ appearance . |
| 25 | Part of the reason is the firm 's expertise in developing the ground-breaking Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology . |
| 26 | The cooperation of consumers enabled the disruption of production to be minimised ; and the industry 's expertise in avoiding the more serious problems developed with experience and with the higher priorities they were granted for scarce coal supplies after the disastrous crisis of February 1947 . |
| 27 | The Renegades were 6–5 ahead and looking good , but Robert Hunter was the Kop 's saviour by taking the last game . |
| 28 | But Thursday 's friendly gesture sat oddly with the government 's ban on publishing the report . |
| 29 | Few have rivalled Singapore 's enthusiasm for harnessing the multinationals as agents of growth and economic transformation . |
| 30 | No doubt its humorous common name has more to do with the countryman 's enthusiasm for worrying the gullible , than with the local wise woman 's magical powers . |