Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 2 | The reef 's new status , granted by the UN International Maritime Organisation , will enable the Australian government to insist that ships that pass through the reef carry a pilot . |
| 3 | As the air temperature drops on a still clear night dew drops that form between the fibres eventually freeze to form a sealed ice cover which traps the air within this space over the relatively warmer soil and prevents the temperature dropping below freezing . |
| 4 | Sir Ivor Jennings once said " If Parliament enacts that smoking in the streets of Paris is an offence then , in the eyes of the English Courts , it is an offence . " |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the system of brick flues that runs under the entire floor of the caldarium — the hot room of the baths — to circulate the hot air from the furnace . |
| 6 | It is a difficult question to know how far they merely duplicate the existing common law powers that arise from the obligation imposed upon the police to preserve the peace , which plainly permit the police to give instructions to limit the numbers at a gathering if that should be necessary to prevent an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 7 | They pinched his toes and rubbed the back of his heels and made a rat-tat sound on the stone flags that echoed through the spooky quiet to announce his presence . |
| 8 | Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality . |
| 9 | Vatican two , in the decree on ecumenism number eight , certainly says that sharing in the sacrament should not be indiscriminate . |
| 10 | It says that based on the cost reduction it has achieved in transferring 75% of assembly and test to Bangkok , Thailand , it would transfer the rest of its production to Bangkok over the next six months , enabling further cost reductions and facility consolidations at its San Jose site . |
| 11 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 12 | It filed for a $300m offering of convertible debt and says that proceeds from the sale of the convertible junior subordinated notes will be used to repay part of its existing 9.5% subordinated debentures . |
| 13 | Mervyn Gowell was a fitter at the plant and says that working on the Meteor was a labour of love . |
| 14 | Tests include stack checking ( ie file formats ) , identifying system calls , portability issues and dynamic parameter tests that run with the software 's own quality assurance suite . |
| 15 | The car has been raked with bullets leaving silvery steel pockmarks that shine through the paintwork . |
| 16 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 17 | Whatever the nature of the plan to receive Swegen in Essex c.991 it was certainly treacherous ; suspicion of treachery led Æthelred to order the killing of Danes in England in 1002 , and in his sermon of 1008 Wulfstan warns that plotting against the king is punishable by death . |
| 18 | The article was not a news report , however , but one of those background features that appear on the women 's pages of quality newspapers after some well-publicized court case . |
| 19 | Reddy calculates that , rather than costing more , environmentally benign energy will cost far less then plans that continue with the energy policies of the past . |
| 20 | The needles splinter the wind into dirges and laments that tell of the long and tragic history of the trees . |
| 21 | Table 6 shows that increase in the time to respond yes was significantly great between memory set sizes of 2 and 3 and 3 and 4 . |
| 22 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 23 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 24 | development which only just exceeds that permitted by the General Development Order , Class I ( development within the curtilage of a dwelling-house ) , Class VI ( agricultural ) and Class VIII ( industrial ) developments ; |
| 25 | There were criticisms over police costs that spread beyond the question of police pay : |
| 26 | I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end . |
| 27 | ‘ WACC 's Forum priorities address concerns that go beyond the scope of conventional communication research towards the realm of philosophical concerns that are normally neglected in mainstream research agendas . |
| 28 | The fabrication of an African persona is reflexive ; an extraordinary meditation on the self ; a powerful exploration of the fears and desires that reside in the writerly conscious . |
| 29 | The other was the huge and spectacular sweep of Beinn Dorain 's west slopes that towered above the railway line giving scale to its forbidding gradient . |
| 30 | In a rainstorm enormous electrical discharges occur in clouds and become visible in the lightning bolts that discharge to the ground . |