Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important thing was not whether the decision-maker was performing a judicial or an administrative function but whether the decision made affected the rights of those subject to it . |
| 2 | A more modern technique involves placing the nuts in a metal cylinder , and the cylinder on the fire . |
| 3 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 4 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 5 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 6 | Thus , providers will not have any responsibility to plan to meet the needs of a particular population , but will , of course , require business planning to secure and fulfil contracts and to attract and treat extra-contract referrals . |
| 7 | The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the Buyer agrees to take the goods in their current state , after having satisfied himself by inspection , as to their quality and fitness for the purpose for which the Buyer requires them . |
| 9 | The Brownings have no room in the Casa Guidi should they ever be willing to shelter him and in any case intend to follow the Storys for another winter in Rome ( entailing another in Florence alone for me ) . |
| 10 | When it also rapidly became clear , following the 1972 White Paper , Education : A Framework for Expansion , that there was to be in fact a massive reduction in teacher education and an opportunity to diversify to fill the gaps created , the CNAA began to be faced with proposals for degrees in other subjects , often combined or modularized degrees , and often with an attempt to build both a BA and BEd degree on top of a two-year Diploma . |
| 11 | It seems that by mistake the Committee clerk failed to delete the words ‘ or water ’ from the expression ‘ in possession of such land or water ’ in the print of the draft Bill . |
| 12 | Minute dumb-bell-shaped pieces of metal were embedded in the two sides of the neural folds of an amphibian embryo and a magnetic field applied to prevent the folds coming together . |
| 13 | His counsel sought to have the admissions excluded under PACE. , ss.76(2) ( b ) , and 78 . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that agriculture has transformed the environments of all developing countries . |
| 15 | With the news that NCR Corp has joined the ranks of those opting for its Unix implementation for the iAPX-86 processor family , Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft subsidiary finally took the wrapping off its long-awaited Unix SVR4-based operating system environment last week . |
| 16 | Sandy , Utah-based Intelligent Modem Corp has acquired the assets of the Modem Division of Forval America Inc and bought back Forval 's stake in itself . |
| 17 | Nashua , New Hampshire-based multimedia company AimTech Corp has acquired the assets of Tiger Media Inc . |
| 18 | BRITISH RAIL has modified the bolts on the axles of its much-troubled advanced passenger train ( APT ) . |
| 19 | Erm I think you 've been conscious of that and have made sure the hair has covered the creases up . |
| 20 | The same thing happened in Holland and ATS gave the next three races a miss to try to fix the problems . |
| 21 | This storm has killed the oaks , but you are in a warm place , where the leaves are green . |
| 22 | The driver tried to quieten the horses as two screeching cats , fighting over some vermin , scurried out of the shadows . |
| 23 | There are several dings and dents in the body where the guitar has suffered the slings and arrows of a curious public . |
| 24 | For nearly half a century the camp has survived the storms . |
| 25 | Kiwi fruit and pizzas notwithstanding , a vast sameness has swept the supermarkets of Europe , North America and Australasia . |
| 26 | However , it also came to be recognised that a sale can be by description even though the buyer has seen the goods . |
| 27 | The problem of when does an unconditional appropriation occur can arise in a very different situation ; when the buyer has to collect the goods , not from the seller , but from a third person . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , the mere fact that the buyer has inspected the goods does not necessarily preclude reliance . |
| 29 | In addition , rescission is forfeited where the buyer has accepted the goods which is illustrated in Leaf v International Galleries [ 1950 ] 2 KB 86 . |
| 30 | If there is no reliance then , notwithstanding the fact that the goods were offered for sale by description , the buyer has bought the goods on other terms . |