Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , after that , you ca n't get it to live amicably in a domestic situation , there is not much hope left , although Graham stressed he has had some success with temperament improvements by castrating the males . |
| 2 | Too many commercials , especially those following the well-loved technique of building suspense before revealing the brand name , run the risk of losing their viewers long before the brand is identified . |
| 3 | This implicit acceptance of the wider consequences of removing the right to abortion — opinion surveys showed consistent majority support for retaining the 1973 precedent — together with the emergence of the three-member centrist bloc on the Court , threw doubt on the widespread assumption that it was only a matter of time before the Court eventually overturned Roe v. Wade . |
| 4 | National Heritage secretary Peter is being blamed for dropping a bye election clanger after suggesting the Tories are resigning to losing Christchurch . |
| 5 | For example , when I started this column yesterday , I thought that Norman Lamont had pulled a brilliantly sneaky Budget trick by making the rich pay a little more tax and letting the poor pay a whole lot less . |
| 6 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 7 | We continue to work closely with Shell Expro towards achieving the partnering objectives for their Brent Charlie and Delta platforms . |
| 8 | Despite the two-octave fretboard , Bass Collection have avoided making this bass look overlong by bolting the neck deep into the body , in half-through fashion . |
| 9 | A Wrexham Maelor Council spokeswoman said the importance of grant aid in securing the project underlined how crucial it was that the borough retain its assisted-area status , now under review by the Government . |
| 10 | Bill Clinton , during and after his campaign , promised to find budget savings by shortening the average maturity ( currently five years and ten months ) of the national debt by selling more short-term paper and less long-term . |
| 11 | They are wooden galleries beneath extended eaves in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century farmhouses , and were probably designed for storage purposes originally , but were undoubtedly used in summer by the womenfolk in their cottage industry of spinning the wool of the local Herdwick sheep with spinning wheel and distaff . |
| 12 | One feature of the Act was the principle of majority rule for electing the employees ' bargaining representative which would then be granted exclusive jurisdiction as the negotiating agent for all the employees in the . |
| 13 | The Liberal Democrats plan to kick-start the house building programme by increasing the Government borrowing . |
| 14 | While he ran thorough hands and eyes over his shattered body , Kathleen started cleaning up the chest area ready for the heart monitor after checking the IV line that was running in Haemacel and taking blood for cross-matching , dodging round the radiographer who had brought the portable in and was taking X-rays . |
| 15 | This team was provided with the part-time support of a clerk/typist to operate the computer terminal for updating the data base as necessary . |
| 16 | Connect it up to your hi-fi and you can plug in your guitar preamp without running the risk of blowing your speakers while you play along to your tape , CD , record player — or all three simultaneously if you like ! |
| 17 | A member of the Leeds ' band Hang The Dance , Roman Remeynes , contacted The Wedding Present after hearing the Ukrainian session and accused them of bastardising the music . |
| 18 | ‘ So , although that album kind of jumped the tracks for the band , it allowed me to feel that I could do whatever sprung to mind , whatever made sense for me . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the consequences for research funding of ending the binary divide . |
| 20 | Our decision to give the Commissioners of Inland Revenue responsibility for overseeing the work reflected our understanding of the demand in Scotland for consistency in the way in which taxes operate throughout Great Britain . |
| 21 | The government was blamed by opposition groups for inciting the violence , claiming that the Moi regime would use the clashes as an excuse to impose an state of emergency and thus delay forthcoming multiparty elections . |
| 22 | The Conservative 's election manifesto promised that lottery funds will be additional to existing government spending and that the Millennium Fund resources will be used for a number of long term projects including restoring the fabric of great buildings . |
| 23 | The second section of the Bill enacted other parts of the Wolfenden proposals by increasing the penalties liable for offences under the new law , such as loitering , soliciting , keeping or managing a brothel , or living on the earnings of prostitution , etc . |
| 24 | His pickers embezzled one pound in twenty and disguised the weight loss by throwing the wool on to wet stones . |
| 25 | Highlander was a linkpin in the whole operation , bringing together many people who had been involved in land issues over a large geographical area , schools , community groups , local politicians , academics , and interested individuals Workshops at Highlander laid the foundations for articulation of the problems and a research methodology for establishing the relative facts and presenting them in a manner which would best suit community requirements . |
| 26 | The pilot has to provide the balancing force by keeping the rudder fully deflected to oppose the turning moment of the live engine . |
| 27 | But , in fact , it is conscious discrimination by policy makers against the unemployed which has had the side effect of making the relative position of pensioners look artificially advantageous . |
| 28 | He accused unnamed opposition parties of planning the assassination with the help of a hired Beninese killer who , he said , had made a full confession to the authorities . |
| 29 | Shaping like this can also be done on a plain ‘ V ’ neck cardigan by working the cable next to the front edge on the straight and leaving the pattern as it is during the shaping , working the decreases on the inner edge of the cable pattern where it will not show . |
| 30 | Group of 100 president Homero Aridjis accused the Mexican fishing industry of inspiring the article , which claimed that the group , together with other Mexican environmentalist organisations , were to urge an end to the embargo . |