Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 2 | I have some knowledge of the Lutterworth site to which Professor Lock referred and of the Toyota site at Derby . |
| 3 | Beyen argued that in the long term the ‘ sector ’ approach to co-operation would have to face up to the need for an all-embracing ‘ common market ’ reducing all trade barriers between the Six . |
| 4 | Dr Clay writes that during the middle years of the seventeenth century customary tenures were still widespread and important , especially for the smaller properties , but that much less land was held in this way than was the case 100 years earlier . |
| 5 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 6 | Five teams ( from Divisions II-IV ) have been dropped from last season 's event and Currie hope that in the future both Melrose and Gala will be able to participate , though the uncertainty over the pair 's national league match precluded their involvement this year . |
| 7 | Reviewing this same exhibition , both Allard and Apollinaire noticed that for the first time in several years the influence of Matisse and Fauvism was slight . |
| 8 | Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes . |
| 9 | Bede says that after the defeat and death of Oswiu 's son and successor , Ecgfrith , in the battle of Nechtanesmere in 685 , the Picts recovered their land which the Angles had held and the Scots who lived in Britain and certain of the Britons ( perhaps of Strathclyde ) their independence ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 10 | Benazir Bhutto says that after the summer of turmoil in Pakistan , this could be the last chance for parliamentary democracy . |
| 11 | Sitting much later in the genteel coffee shop of a Holiday Inn in Suburban Virginia , Habib Olahi recalled that as the Shah walked to and fro , he said , " This is against the constitution . " |
| 12 | While Crescendo has not firmed up its plans enough to announce what specific products are to follow , SynOptics says that in the third quarter of the year it will launch two FDDI unshielded twisted pair hub products : the Model 3905 FDDI UTP Host Module is claimed to be compatible with all existing SynOptics System 3000 modules , and will list for £3,630 . |
| 13 | However , Defence Secretary Dick Cheney stated that in the light of recent political events in the Soviet Union , which had given him " some pause for concern " , the cutback programme could be halted if the Soviet military showed signs of reasserting its power . |
| 14 | A note on the file at St Martin's-le-Grand shows that for the year ending 31 December , 1920 , the Electrophone Company 's income from subscribers was £11 868 , its operating expenses were £5866 , and its royalty payment to the Post Office was just £496 . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that in the 1980s manufacturing output rose by31 per cent ? |
| 16 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend remember that under the previous Labour Government , the International Monetary Fund came to the rescue ? |
| 18 | Research conducted in the United States discovered that for the top five executives from a sample of 50 of the largest companies three times as much income came from shares as from employment . |
| 19 | We shall denote any state by the letter G. Suppose that in the first phase of a learning cycle , while its inputs are the desired settings Sk , each state G occurs with frequency P(G) . |
| 20 | Small wonder that at the third and fourth station , most of the students stop listening . |
| 21 | TI said that in the first quarter it will start knocking off Tsunami derivatives , differentiating features such as cache size , floating point and Sbus according to customer demand . |
| 22 | Sir David said that in the last few days , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , has written to say that NHS funds can not be used in this way . |
| 23 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 24 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 25 | Lord Hodson said that in the case of agreements between commercial companies for regulating their trade relations the parties are usually the best judges of what is reasonable . |
| 26 | Belkheir said that in the unrest since January 103 people had died ( a revision of the previous figure — see p. 38790 ) and 414 had been wounded . |
| 27 | Scott claims that in the nineteenth century there were three overlapping , but not united sections of the upper class : landowners , financiers ( mainly in the City of London ) , and manufacturers . |
| 28 | From his analysis of Soviet commentary , Zimmerman argues that in the period October 1961 to March 1962 these developments ‘ exacerbated the ongoing dialogue within the Soviet ruling group concerning the adequacy of the Soviet deterrent ’ and ‘ suggested grave misgivings on the part of –ome Soviet observers lest the defining characteristics of imperialist international relations be restored ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 187 ) . |
| 29 | On the matter of emphasising obligations rather than rights , Wringe argues that in the liberal tradition the citizen 's most important obligation is in fact the defence of rights . |
| 30 | Sunderland motor dealer Reg Vardy says that in the past month it has sold £1.1m worth of luxury cars to local businessmen . |