Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 2 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 3 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 4 | In 1960 Liz Taylor was described as ‘ gravely ill ’ during the voting period ; Melina Mercouri , nominated for Zorba the Greek , said all the other Best Actress nominees ought to stand down . |
| 5 | OUR nation has pursued for decades the policy that has substituted machines and technology for human lives . |
| 6 | Because new maximum exposure limits have come into force the Health and Safety Executive has also published guidance dealing specifically with chromium compounds and nickel and its organic compounds . |
| 7 | He drove past the Café Unic , where his father and Jacques , and other members of their cadre had held their last meeting , and where he had dined with Isobel the night he asked her to marry him . |
| 8 | The press reported in detail the ordeal which rape survivors must undergo in the court situation — GIRL WEEPS AFTER 90-MINUTE RAPE QUIZ — when one of the girls broke down in court during questioning . |
| 9 | In practice , whatever the solution adopted there is always an uncomfortable shifting of gears in the movement from one of these perspectives to the other : nor does the assertion of this or that ‘ homology ’ between style and narrative do much more than to pronounce resolved in advance the dilemma for which it was supposed to provide a working answer . |
| 10 | If the discrepancy between ‘ is ’ and ‘ ought ’ were ever finally resolved in effect the world of practical experience would be destroyed . |
| 11 | She could not cope with lifts , and she could not go into the garden shed in case the door closed upon her . |
| 12 | A special class of prose-speakers for whom verse-speakers descend to the lower level are clowns , who may sing lyrics or speak verse for satiric purposes , but who are almost invariably addressed in prose the moment they appear . |
| 13 | The steps approached without haste the bottom of the staircase , and began to climb . |
| 14 | COHSE researcher Steven Weeks say his main concern is that the schemes being marketed ‘ are not designed to measure the type of jobs nurses do ’ . |
| 15 | Two scales of ‘ resistance ’ and ‘ interference ’ , designed to measure the intensity of obsessional distress and the intrusion of symptoms on other activities , produced a similar result . |
| 16 | Yet it still finds that the official statistics-gathering system is designed to measure the state economy , but not the rapidly growing private one . |
| 17 | A second strand in research of the 1960s was a consequence of the increasing focus upon processes which gave indications of the magnitude of human activity and also led to the inauguration of research investigations specifically designed to measure the magnitude of man by comparing man-modified and unmodified areas or by measuring one area before , during and after the effects of man . |
| 18 | There are several devices on the market which are designed to measure the pitch angle with varying degrees of accuracy but , like everything else , the good ones are expensive . |
| 19 | Following the Supreme Court 's decision on the abortion issue in late June [ see pp. 38954-55 ] , the Senate labour and human resources committee on July 1 voted 12 to five to approve a bill designed to enshrine the right to abortion — currently derived from the beleaguered 1973 Supreme Court decision , Roe v. Wade — into federal law . |
| 20 | The present study is designed to asses the extent of this problem and the factors which influence it . |
| 21 | Its president , Charles Gray , said there was no justification for removing regulatory functions from district and island councils which were committed to tightening-up the control regime . |
| 22 | He went over the whole ground of Canterbury 's history from the beginning , enforcing the one simple message that Gregory the Great and his successors had committed to Canterbury the task of introducing and upholding the Christian faith throughout the whole of the British Isles . |
| 23 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 24 | PW rejects the suggestion that the auditors should be expected to under-write the company against any |
| 25 | Resource commitment ( for instance , upon what basis should advertising and sales promotion budgets be constructed : or over what time scale should new products be expected to pay-back the Research and Development costs incurred in their development ? ) |
| 26 | They are then chased by both the helicopter and small high-speed boats which are also carried on board the seiner . |
| 27 | Sonilla and Ned 's Aura both won at Newmarket the day before the Cambridgeshire . |
| 28 | Because it is surrounded by uplands the Empire acts like a huge basin into which drain countless mountain torrents . |
| 29 | Behind him was Marjorie Grey , in her green anorak , surrounded by Franks the poodle , Macintyre the elderly Border collie and Stroud the unstable Staffordshire terrier . |
| 30 | Example 2:13 Right to display advertisement permitted by regulations The right to display in and on the demised property any advertisement permitted to be displayed without the express consent of the local planning authority by virtue of the Town and Country Planning ( Control of Advertisements ) Regulations 1992 or any modification or replacement thereof Example 2:14 Right to display advertisement in prescribed form The right to display on the front door of the demised property a name plate not exceeding in area and advertising the business carried on in the demised property and to display the name or style of that business on the name board situated in the entrance hall of the building of which the demised property forms part with letters provided by the landlord |