Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 2 | Little was done , or could have been done under the imperatives of war needs as interpreted at the time , to close down the schools on the Black List , long overdue for closure and replacement , or to rebuild inner-city schools . |
| 3 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 4 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 5 | In this article I would like to have a look at the nuts and bolts of his style , with the emphasis being shifted to the devices that he uses as opposed to the specific parts that he plays . |
| 6 | But , as so often happens when dealing with the United States , informal agreements reached with Presidents are not necessarily supported by Congress . |
| 7 | What is required is that the language which is pedagogically presented should be a projection of that which actually occurs as recorded by the computer analysis of text . |
| 8 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 9 | In any such change , there are three states that must be dealt with : ( 1 ) the present state , which is things as they are ; ( 2 ) the future state , which is what the changed condition will be ; and ( 3 ) the transitional state , which is the one that exists when evolving from the present to the future — the state during which the actual changing takes place . |
| 10 | An alternative is a special posture that the prey adopts when approached by the predator , suddenly showing off its warning colours . |
| 11 | Instead he describes a crisis which he sees as spreading throughout the entire penal system , affecting other penal disposals such as probation , community service , fines and so on . |
| 12 | In the later theory of Freud , it is this energy which he sees as derived from the death instincts , which are innate destructive energy forces . |
| 13 | As argued for above , a denial of re-hearing based on a ‘ last opportunity ’ rationale only convinces if premised on the foregoing of an opportunity which would have been afforded . |
| 14 | An expansion of loans and therefore deposits unless matched by the acquisition of additional cash deposits , must cause a deterioration in the liquidity position of a bank . |
| 15 | GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday vowed not to quit as England manager — but admitted he feels as hounded on the back pages as the Royal Family are on the front . |
| 16 | Though the drill rotates continuously , the blade only moves when pressed against the workpiece . |
| 17 | The personal banking sets as seen from the Banking Hall |
| 18 | HARDCOPY FORMATTER This program , HCFORMAT.EXE , formats modules of a specified charge code and classification into the volume sets as specified in the configuration file . |
| 19 | A sensitive back titration technique was therefore used in 15 experiments to determine salivary and oesophageal alkali outputs , and to compare these with bicarbonate outputs as determined by the pH/ pCO 2 method . |
| 20 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 21 | 1.5 In formulating attainment targets we have followed the recommendations of the TGAT Reports as endorsed by the Government and now in the process of development by the School Examinations and Assessment Council ( SEAC ) . |
| 22 | Huntington is shrewd when he reveals many implications in Wells 's prose , and ends by making useful distinctions between utopia and dystopia , which he reviews as related , and anti-utopia , which he views as opposed to the other two . |
| 23 | Accordingly , the issue arises as stated at the outset of this judgment . |
| 24 | The accused 's intentions are best proved from any admission he makes when interviewed by the police . |