Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All said he was of low intelligence , and as a trump card the defence brought in Professor Hans Eysenck to consider all the evidence . |
| 2 | By contrast the tax charge increased in the UK , mainly becuase of the inability to set off UK losses outside the ring-fence against ring-fenced North Sea income . |
| 3 | When the dust finally settled on the day 's play , the Stoddard Captain , showing no reluctance to collect the Buchanan Cup on behalf of Stoddards , even although he had played for Lyles , took the opportunity to thank both Eddie Docherty and Ian McCulloch of Lyles for the splendid organisation of the event . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the anonymity of the process limits the opportunity to put out contracts on those most worthy of such largesse . |
| 5 | The database administrator ( DBA ) is given the opportunity to set up indexes at data creation time and this will increase the speed by which data is retrieved . |
| 6 | Frank also gave Crawford the opportunity to dream up stunts that would put his previous daredevilry in the shade . |
| 7 | ‘ It would give us the opportunity to iron out problems ? ’ |
| 8 | Parents are marginalised , not because professionals deliberately exclude them but because they are denied the opportunity to influence how need is conceptualised . |
| 9 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 10 | The successive rounds of the game give us the opportunity to build up trust or mistrust , to reciprocate or placate , forgive or avenge . |
| 11 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 12 | Exploratory will give visitors the opportunity to discover why mirrors invert sideways but not up and down , to measure their heart rates while pedalling a bicycle and to re-enact Galileo 's experiments with falling weights on inclined planes . |
| 13 | While there was disappointment that the Chancellor had not taken the opportunity to roll up tax relief for first time buyers into the first few years of a mortgage , the doubling of the stamp duty threshold has been widely welcomed . |
| 14 | Thus , the decision by the county at the end of the following season not to re-engage him and Garner came as an enormous surprise and caused a furore ; from the emotional angle it was poor reward for years of devoted service , but rationally , since the opportunity to sign up Martin Crowe of New Zealand , who promised so much , had either to be taken or lost , it was a sensible move . |
| 15 | As late as 1792 , Sir Robert Ainslie , Murray 's successor , complained that by not being called on to mediate in the peace negotiations which had just produced the Russo-Turkish treaty of Jassy he had lost the opportunity to make about £30,000 in presents from both sides , though this was probably a great exaggeration . |
| 16 | The contracts specify both prices and volume — 70 million tonnes this year , falling to 65 million tonnes next year . |
| 17 | It has become commonplace to observe that the precious yet precarious Churchill Ian , stiff-upper-lip culture which only materializes in the midst of national adversity — underneath the arches , down in the air-raid shelters where Britannia enjoyed her finest hours — is something from which blacks are excluded . |
| 18 | Ahead of us I could hear the noise of the waterfall — there had been plenty of rain and when we arrived at the foss , the beck that eventually joins the Ure to travel down Wensleydale was hammering over the lip of the force . |
| 19 | In fact the reduction in home trade is far bigger than the reduction paid out exports , and this is accounted for by the ten million reduction paid out now would give a right big fillip to trade . |
| 20 | Acute back pain forced the Prince to give up polo for a month in June , 1991 . |
| 21 | Later , at Westerplatte , the prince handed over sets of campaign medals to the seven veterans of the British forces . |
| 22 | The split comes just days after Freddie was reunited with his ‘ lost ’ son Carl , 26 , from his first marriage . |
| 23 | Yes … the company appointed to sell Robert Maxwell 's shares in the second division club have announced they intend to adjourn the Oxford United AGM at the Manor Ground tomorrow night almost as soon as it starts . |
| 24 | One Over the Eight starts next Monday … there 's still a few tickets left … well worth a night out … we could have some real sporting drama at the Manor ground tomorrow afternoon with Oxford playing Newcastle in a relegation battle … |
| 25 | The final audit of the accounts found only £45,220 of stock on the premises instead of the £570,680 declared . |
| 26 | Witnesses at the trial described how Col Cabezas had urged his men to kill the unarmed prisoners . |
| 27 | Kinase reactions were perfomed such that the DNA-PK phosphorylated over 50% of the Jun-Core protein as judged by a kinase-induced mobility-shift of phosphorylated Jun-Core as observed by SDS-PAGE and Coommassie Blue staining . |
| 28 | The board spelled out FIRE , confirming the family 's fear that the spirit meant them harm . |
| 29 | ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year . |
| 30 | The board acted just weeks after GM disclosed the biggest loss in corporate history . |