Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fantastic literature ‘ does not introduce novelty , so much as uncover all that needs to remain hidden if the world is to be comfortably ‘ known' ’ … |
| 2 | On a simple view , the Treasury , as a government department , formulates the financial policy which it wishes to see pursued and the Bank of England decides upon the appropriate technical means of carrying out that policy and is responsible for putting it into effect . |
| 3 | And he who allowed his mind to wander found that the Castle was only too happy to guide it for him , and to draw a little of the sensations and memories of that mind into itself , as if it too mulled over those things that stirred the black hearts within its halls … |
| 4 | ‘ The opportunity to sell occurred and the price was a good one , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 5 | Secondly , the switch to khozraschet meant that the press had to attract paying subscribers , who wanted to read about their own regions and not be submitted to generalized and boring directives from Moscow all the time . |
| 6 | The itch is not a painful one and James I is said to have claimed that the itch was fitted only for kings , so exquisite was the enjoyment of scratching . |
| 7 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 8 | Philip Edwards is believed to have suffocated when the 14-inch wide gap caved in . |
| 9 | The fifth judge , Stephen J. , appears to have considered that the wife 's consent to sexual intercourse would in certain circumstances be vitiated . |
| 10 | Without considering the individual cases , he was to have decided whether the Government can be sued over its policy on allocation of resources . |
| 11 | But Lanfranc seems not even to have noticed that the community still followed , however imperfectly , the order of monastic life which had been laid down for all English monasteries a hundred years earlier , of which two copies from the pre-Conquest library at Christ Church , Canterbury , still survive . |
| 12 | On May 9 , de Klerk was reported to have said that the carrying by Zulus of spears and other accoutrements , which Chief Buthelezi insisted were " cultural " in purpose , would still be permitted , provided they were not " misused " . |
| 13 | Garang was reported in Le Monde of April 24 to have said that the government push had effectively been halted throughout the south . |
| 14 | It might have been more honest to have said that the price paid for ending National Service was increased dependence on nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | He was reported to have said that the killing was ordered from prison by a Jihad leader Sawfat Abdel Ghani , who had been convicted of involvement in the killing of al-Mahgoub . |
| 16 | Another way of feeling the lag of the right side is one of turning away and then trying to stay turned while the attack on the ball takes place . |
| 17 | Mr Howie does not , but seems to have accepted that the criticism has ruined his board 's plans . |
| 18 | The defendants had not contested the jurisdiction of the English court and must be taken to have accepted that the dispute would be settled in accordance with English procedure ; the English court must be in full control of its own procedures and not allow procedural battles to develop in other countries which would add to the expense and dislocate the timetable of English litigation . |
| 19 | to have succeeded the appellant would have to have shown that the amount on which the dependency was based already included a sum which equated to a return on the assets of the business . |
| 20 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 21 | He seems to have thought that the pope ought to have maintained the decrees of his predecessor , but this was not a matter for him to decide . |
| 22 | President Jaime Paz Zamora was reported on the same day to have requested that the Congress authorize the presence of US troops in the eastern Beni region , and sought congressional approval for a law to support the presence of foreign troops in the future . |
| 23 | In such cases they will escape , unless they have been negligent , or at least ought to have known that the publication " was of such a character that it was likely to contain libellous matter " . |
| 24 | Nor do I consider that the principle is advanced by identifying specific categories such as husband and wife or elderly parents and adult children ; the principle applies whenever a creditor knows or ought to have known that the relationship between debtor and the surety gives rise to a real risk that the surety may not contract freely and with a full appreciation of the nature of the obligation being assumed . |
| 25 | For this , it is sufficient that the seller knew or ought to have known that the buyer bought the goods for resale . |
| 26 | We have seen that a defendant , to be convicted under section 14 must be proved to have known that the statement was false or to have been reckless as to its falsity . |
| 27 | The plaintiff 's share of the responsibility for the damage he had suffered in the accident arose out of the finding that either he ought to have known that the defendant 's ability to drive was impaired or , more likely , that he had drunk so much himself that he was unable to tell that the defendant 's ability was in fact impaired . |
| 28 | The test is whether the unwitting distributor ought to have known that the material would offend . |
| 29 | Counsel then appearing for the petitioner does not seem to have appreciated that the cancellation issue had been heard in the course of the trial of the preliminary issue and finally decided by the Court of Appeal on 4 October 1991 . |
| 30 | A survey of the wreckage was said to have proved that the helicopter had been carrying combat weapons and armed personnel as well as civilians ; the Georgian side attributed the crash itself to overloading , with 64 passengers on a 24-seat helicopter . |