Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limitations of individual recovery at common law led some courts to develop a rule allowing the corporation to recover the insider 's profits by way of a derivative action which encompassed the situation where the insider traded on impersonal stock markets . |
| 2 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 3 | ‘ To ask the Chancellor whether he proposes to take any action to counter the growing practice by companies of granting shareholders the option to receive dividends in the form of stock instead of cash , so enabling some shareholders to obtain a tax advantage . ’ |
| 4 | Back on the A34 we circled a roundabout a few times to test the road-holding . |
| 5 | Though wounded seventeen times , he was one of the very few aces to survive the war . |
| 6 | After that Athelstan gave Tab and his two apprentices some pennies to take the coffin from the church and out to the old cemetery . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , though , there have been few attempts to acknowledge the fluidity of Renaissance plays . |
| 8 | No no , they will never make a price in Perth now you have terrified them , ’ and Cameron would have to spend a good few shillings to make the drove move on . |
| 9 | ‘ Afraid your lords and masters will fire you if you allow me a few minutes to put the subject on hold ? ’ |
| 10 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 11 | So apart from a few minutes to snatch a bite to eat , he was seldom off the helm . |
| 12 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 13 | Moderator it 's hard within the space of these few minutes to give a sense of the breadth of the Board 's work . |
| 14 | After being given a few minutes to study the diagram the sender is told to go ahead and the time is noted . |
| 15 | It took me a few minutes to get the hang of things when I put the Legend through an amp . |
| 16 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 17 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 18 | If the ingredients are still hot just place under a hot grill for a few minutes to brown the top . |
| 19 | Indeed , such mechanisms might actually be employed by the cell in some cases to regulate the accessibility of sites to the DNA-PK . |
| 20 | Section 56 of the Consumer Credit Act also can operate to entitle a buyer in some cases to sue the creditor ( e.g. a credit card company ) in respect of a misrepresentation by the seller . |
| 21 | However , a characteristic of the Worcestershire record is the attempt in some cases to estimate the value of a lease to the tenant . |
| 22 | In particular , the ERCs fail in some cases to rehabilitate the men and women who pass through them largely because it is not their physical disablement but their attitude that is handicapping them in returning to normal working life , and the ERCs are not really equipped to change these attitudes . |
| 23 | However , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Southend , West said , it may be appropriate in some cases to consider a group of counties if clear cross-boundary issues are likely to arise during the discussion period . |
| 24 | It took four and a half hours to reach the summit and , believing it would be easier and quicker to regain the glacier by traversing the mountain , we continued our crab-like progression to the west . |
| 25 | Listed below are a few reasons to bake a potato . |
| 26 | Albania , which had been the only European non-participant , had expressed its desire to join and was granted observer status at the summit , but on Nov. 20 lodged a formal complaint stating that " the failure of some states to allow a consensus for Albania 's full participation … is incomprehensible " [ see also pp. 37385 ; 37746-47 ] . |
| 27 | The presence of anomalously thin crust , widespread extensional faulting and high rates of heat flow has led some researchers to interpret the Basin and Range Province of the western USA and northern Mexico as an area of back-arc spreading developed on continental crust behind the subduction zone along the Pacific coast . |
| 28 | We were billeted in the Grand Hotel , the massive Victorian pile which dominated Scarborough in turreted splendour from its eminence above the sea , and the big dining room was packed with several hundred shouting airmen , The iron discipline was relaxed for a few hours to let the Yuletide spirit run free . |
| 29 | Leave the instrument in a greenhouse containing well-watered plants on a sunny day for a few hours to get an idea of maximum deflection . |
| 30 | In July 1980 , AMES staged its first public demonstration , when the El Calvario church was occupied for a few hours to demand a reduction in the price of basic food stuffs . |