Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We understand the company may reapply on the basis that Flue-Gas Desulphurisation ( FDG ) equipment will be fitted . |
| 2 | fund , er and we say that er , er we hope your Lordship will be with us on the main issues , but if your not , we say there are very powerful reasons of English and community law including er the obligation on the court under article five , to ensure that the , er the , the trials some two years hence lasting some five weeks with all the expert evidence , my learned friend says will be necessary , should not in the interim have the effect of er frustrating er the operation of er apparently valid provisions in the United Kingdom statutes and the Lloyds Acts and byelaws , which er , are themselves measures that have been adopted so as to pursue the policy |
| 3 | A pigeon clock-shifted 6 hours early but taken through three time zones to the east would in fact behave as if it ‘ knew ’ it should home to the west , but because its compass bearings are rotated 90° clockwise ( it thinks it is midday when it is 6.00 p.m. ) , it would ‘ home ’ towards the north rather than the west . |
| 4 | Tony in charge of services and communication , Simon in charge of policy and development , Richard in charge of resource development , and although it 's not on the script and she said I must n't to the script , I ought to mention also Samantha who has joined us as head of communications on whom , you may thank for all the sort of visuals that we 're having , and the bright idea of videoing er , our Chairman . |
| 5 | we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that , |
| 6 | That is not to say that further development on a case by case basis may not in the course of time add further grounds . ’ |
| 7 | The clause should therefore be amended to read : " the Tenant " includes the successors in title of the Tenant A landlord may nevertheless for the purpose of privity of contract wish to ensure that the person with whom it is entering into the agreement will be the original tenant under the lease . |
| 8 | And it 'll automatically from the time I tell them . |
| 9 | They also stated that if no help was forthcoming they might later in the year repeal the international law of first asylum under which the boat people were allowed to apply for refugee status and be given a fair hearing . |
| 10 | It could be , it could be erm it could right in the middle could n't it dad ? |
| 11 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 12 | An alternative would therefore be to use a UK-resident Newco for the share/debenture exchange and , to circumvent the capital gains tax disadvantage of this , it could soon after the acquisition transfer its stake in Target to the partnership by way of a capital distribution , leaving it with the loan-note obligations to the vendor shareholders and the cash to meet such obligations . |
| 13 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 14 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 15 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 16 | He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons . |
| 17 | Mahmoud , incoherent with fury , could not for the moment say what it was . |
| 18 | Subject to some exceptions … it matters not that the doer of the act of usurpation did not know , and could not by the exercise of any reasonable care have known of his neighbour 's interest in the goods . |
| 19 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 20 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 21 | I even found myself able to use acoustic feedback through the studio monitors at a sensible volume , with the A2 DI 'd straight into the board . |
| 22 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 23 | How much more wrong could Back To The Planet be ? |
| 24 | Lee could n't with the dog . |
| 25 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 26 | The Marshal could n't for the life of him remember that . |
| 27 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 28 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 29 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 30 | Harris knew that something had happened but he could n't for the life of him think what it might be . |