Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But housing experts and governments just have not given enough thought to the type of building materials that developing countries need . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 3 | A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty . |
| 4 | Voters are given only part of the story when making their decisions . |
| 5 | Switching codes holds no fears for Sillars Stalker who , having topped off his last jumping campaign with a four-timer , filled in time during the summer , scoring three times on the Flat . |
| 6 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 7 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 8 | If the practice had not done the efficient thing and had installed only part of the structure , to a value of £8,000 , it would have received 50 per cent . |
| 9 | This is all the more surprising in view of the fact that the northern king , Aldfrith , was now confined largely north of the Humber , the Northumbrians preoccupied with their own problems of reconstruction following the Pictish victory at Nechtanesmere in 685 and seemingly unable even to take possession of Lindsey again . |
| 10 | Recent work south of the town has revealed an apparently defended pre-Roman site , while concerted watching briefs and limited excavations have added further information about the town 's history and its cemeteries . |
| 11 | Similar facies may be expected further east in the subsurface . |
| 12 | So it can be seen that the parties will usually be excused further performance of the contract , either partly or entirely , according to what is a reasonable presumption of what the parties would have intended . |
| 13 | The networking company has signed an agreement with Hudson , Massachusetts-based Gradient Technologies Inc , which has already picked up support from the likes of IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 14 | The boss , Mr. Uphill , always had his sleeves rolled up way past the elbows — whether for comfort or to exhibit the many tattoos which covered his arms is anyone 's guess . |
| 15 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |
| 16 | Similarly in Britain , a party can win several thousand votes in each constituency yet not come out top of the poll in any ; in consequence , it amasses a large popular vote but no seats in Parliament . |
| 17 | Mining companies , including Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd ( MEG 4 ) and Noranda-Kerr ( MEG 74 and 115 ) have also carried out work in the area . |
| 18 | If innovation is stifled then efficiency of the markets may be impaired . |
| 19 | The plan drew wide support from schools , universities and industry , but was turned down flat by the Department of Education , apparently on instructions from Downing Street . |
| 20 | The Test of Acceptability was carried out by Lord Pearce and a number of other people , including Lord Harlech , and it was turned down flat by the Africans . |
| 21 | Lindsey reckons that he is the most shot down pilot in the world , after all , until the appearance on the UK airshow circuit of Spanish-built Messerschmitt ‘ 109s ’ ( Ha 1112MIL Buchons ) in 1988 , Lindsey had the only German ‘ fighter ’ available . |
| 22 | He was saved further embarrassment by the rustling approach through the fecundity of his garden of his wife , accompanied by two of the children . |
| 23 | He could have moved directly south into the valley of the Dee , but instead he chose to head eastwards towards the vale of Clwyd , to take a cautious look at the borders of Lord Grey 's domain before he turned south to cross the mountains to Valle Crucis . |
| 24 | Chairman John Craig said the group had performed particularly well in the US , had built up its market in continental Europe and had seen further growth in the Far East . |
| 25 | At Stanmer , the earlier Pelhams created a well-balanced ‘ Palladian ’ house in the 1720s ; in order to preserve a sense of proper grandeur , the village was moved further north in the downland valley to hide it from view . |
| 26 | Under his captaincy , Leeds lost twice to Rangers in the European Cup and have since suffered further humiliation in the Premier League and in the Coca-Cola Cup against Watford . |
| 27 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 28 | What you yo were trying to achieve is the expansion of the built up area towards the ring road , and thereby having built development hard up er as it is at the moment the ring road goes through for the most part open countryside on either side of it . |
| 29 | The groove in the upper tooth-plate clearly prevented sideways movement of the lower jaw . |
| 30 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |