Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system , devised by Rentokil 's Research and Development department , offers for the first time a non-chemical , twenty-four hour detection and protection system . |
| 2 | ( Three separate negotiating teams were sent to each country tendering offers for the Urengoi gas pipeline , as a result of which the FRG , much to her surprise , found herself underbid at the end of the day . ) |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it is necessary to introduce some significant qualifying remarks about the current direction of policies and procedures in many authorities . |
| 4 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 5 | There is just one observation I wish to make to the Committee this afternoon and it actually goes about the whole issue of the planning aspect of what 's gone on . |
| 6 | Meanwhile doubts about the private banks ' ability to cope caused mounting worries . |
| 7 | He calls himself a ‘ stopper , ’ with his greatest ability being able to pounce on anything earthbound that should cross his territory , but he also has a fine pair of catching hands , and he took many full-blooded cuts and slashes through the expansive point area during the World Cup . |
| 8 | About 245,000 people receive community care grants through the social fund and one million get crisis loans . |
| 9 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 10 | However , under the test derived from Caldwell , a person is not reckless if he thinks about the possible risk but decides that it does not obtain . |
| 11 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
| 12 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 13 | Steve Powell , who plays for the away team said : ‘ Obviously , the prison team can only play at home but they are anxious to play more friendly matches . ’ |
| 14 | Even in Italy , where Campese plays for the other Milan club owned by multi-millionaire Silvia Berlusconi — AC Milan having slightly more kudos — Campese can walk around freely . |
| 15 | He plays for the Whitehaven Tennis Club and is involved in their purchase of new tennis courts . |
| 16 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 17 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 18 | Tony , of Scarisbrick Drive , Norris Green , plays for the local East Villa club and team mates joined his father , Michael , in an all-night vigil at Walton Hospital . |
| 19 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 20 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 21 | He turns off the main drag . |
| 22 | Rain entering the soil disturbs the equilibrium in the same way as water added to the top of the capillary tube or towel ; water drains through the unsaturated zone to the water table . |
| 23 | He had first reported to Donleavy on the use of counterfeit money for DEA stings during the 1987 season , after Dany Habib had produced a sample from his desk drawer , but it was soon clear from what he observed at Eurame that this , too , had become standard operating procedure in his absence . |
| 24 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 25 | If the spin is " up " the electron goes off one way , if it is " down " the electron goes off the other way , as in the figure . |
| 26 | and he goes off the big city ma ma , like this and he 's got a fucking flying helmet and a flying bucket |
| 27 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 28 | That is a pity : the price of financial distress is just about the only way in which the cost of capital for firms plausibly differs between the two rivals over the longer term . |
| 29 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 30 | In December a conference of donors pledged more than $1 billion in aid for 1991 , including relief supplies for the central province of Zambezia , where at least 250,000 people were forced off their land last year by rebel or government attacks . |