Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst we recommend a retail price for all sizes as with all similar product on the market it will be up to the vendor to adjust for the prices the margins that they require . |
| 2 | The verderers were enabled , in return for an annual payment of £1 , to secure for the commoners the right to turn out their animals during these periods from year to year . |
| 3 | The procedure is to obtain from the tables the PV values of both outlays and proceeds for each year . |
| 4 | The procedure is to obtain from the tables the PV values of both outlays and proceeds for each year . |
| 5 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 6 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 7 | The business in the example , it should be pointed out , is likely to be a retailer as there is no manufacturing capacity in the fixed assets and thus an opportunity is provided for the teacher to explore with the students the expected differences in the structure of assets and liabilities between different industries . |
| 8 | In my judgment , in view of the careful warning contained in the letters , the appointment of the son as a messenger assuming for the moment that it occurred , falls far short of the involvement required to visit upon the plaintiffs the unconscionable conduct of the son . |
| 9 | In relation to the unmixed foil which the buyers had sold , the Court of Appeal held that the Dutch sellers were entitled to receive from the buyers the proceeds of the sales by the buyers . |
| 10 | But if by any chance the Bairns ' fortunes begin to falter under his chairmanship , and their stalwart position as second-bottom in the league is challenged , then he should not be surprised to hear from the terraces the menacing sound of the fans as they give tongue : ‘ Christie , Christie , Christie — out , out , out ! ’ |
| 11 | Well he wo n't have much to do with the greengages the night he 's going . |
| 12 | However , all this is doing is attempting to build into the machines the intelligence that would have been exercised by a skilled worker in going through the labour process . |
| 13 | Although this appeared to repeat some of the work already undertaken by the FAOR team , because the analysts were now concerned with documenting the user requirements at a detailed level it was necessary to focus the questions more precisely and , taking account of the proposed technical solutions , to consider with the interviewees the potential advantages of information being indexed and stored by electronic means . |
| 14 | It can also help to emphasize to the counsellees the value and significance of their lives , and the part they have played in the history of their times . |
| 15 | Parliament or , more specifically , the House of Commons , has been jealous to maintain exclusive control over its own affairs , as determined by the House itself , and has thus been reluctant to concede to the courts the jurisdiction claimed by them above . |
| 16 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 17 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 18 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 19 | To pay for the pits the government told British Coal not to pay four hundred and eighty one million that it owed to the staff 's superannuation fund . |
| 20 | I began to think about the changes the coming wedding would bring . |
| 21 | For any political party that makes any pretence of seeking the government of this country to want to remove from the courts the sanction that my hon. Friend has described as so essential is utterly irresponsible . |
| 22 | On June 26 Parliament decided by 93 to 26 votes to remove from the courts the power of judicial review in ISA cases , so that the executive would make the final decision . |
| 23 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |