Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The referee , however , allowed play to go on with Everton prostrate and protesting and when the cross came over the defence seemed to use less than legal means to stop Chapman reaching it . |
| 2 | It is hoped that this extension will provide members with the opportunity to consider/ discuss this matter more fully . |
| 3 | An annual employee profile is issued to each employee showing the information held about him/her and giving the employee the opportunity to make known any inaccuracies . |
| 4 | Piggy felt that everybody else had held onto their civilised upbringing like himself and he was always very surprised when nobody tried to steal the conch , right to speak , from him , but everyone else knew that democracy and civilisation on the island had ended , and the conch had lost all of its power and worth . |
| 5 | Would the acoustic signal contain any evidence anyway or does the speaker just talk like that ? |
| 6 | The Prince had had all the men up on deck scanning the river with the aid of oil lamps . |
| 7 | Guided by his new-found friend , Charles studied Jung and also the work of economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher , who wrote a book entitled Small Is Beautiful ; over the years the Prince has found many of the answers he was searching for . |
| 8 | Indeed , in the eyes of some , the clergyman and the wizard continued to represent little more than alternative conduits of a much needed protective magic . |
| 9 | If the Development Manager considers the change proposed has little or no impact on functionality , cost , or timescale when he should allow the incorporation of the change into the design and ensure that it is described in the design documentation . |
| 10 | The continuous line shows what the retailer hopes to sell this year . |
| 11 | Out of his profits , the retailer has to pay all the costs involved in running the shop , that is , his overheads . |
| 12 | The retailer needs to do this in order to predict future sales . |
| 13 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
| 14 | In deciding how much profit he wants to make on each item , and how much to mark up his prices , the retailer needs to consider many of the factors we looked at in Section 7 — the socioeconomics of the area , the needs of the typical customer , the competition , and so on . |
| 15 | The writer had found this and 12 others in a cupboard , and would be glad , she wrote , if they could be ‘ used to bring in some lolly ’ . |
| 16 | But the unexplained meagreness of the award does compel that inference . |
| 17 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 18 | To recap , the Board has decided that from 1.4.94 . |
| 19 | On the second issue , sensitivity analysis , the board has met most of the commission 's criticisms , including the important issue of the impact of wide variations in coal prices on the overall result . |
| 20 | The Board refused to endorse this . |
| 21 | The Board decided to concentrate all its new building of carriages at Derby and Wolverton , Derby to be the HO Over the next decade , carriage works at Newton Heath , Plaistow , and Crewe were closed . |
| 22 | Right has the board consider giving this place I mean I I understand the the trouble with money etc but looking at making this place more inviting , at all ? |
| 23 | was recognising that there are classes of sureties for whom special protection should be given , that the case fell within the class , but that , on the facts , the creditor had done enough to prevent any equitable intervention in aid of the surety . |
| 24 | The court may set aside the demand if the debtor appears to have a counterclaim , set-off or cross claim equalling or exceeding the debt demanded , the debt is disputed on grounds which appear to the court to be substantial , the creditor appears to hold some security for the debt of sufficient value , or the court is satisfied on other grounds that the demand ought to be set aside . |
| 25 | This week the hospice want to thank those who gave in memory of Mr Robinson , Mr Herring , Mr Gargett and Mr Nixon . |
| 26 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 27 | He was way ahead of the rest of the field and battled on through the afternoon trying to win those valuable championship points . |
| 28 | We had one hit record , Tragedy , a million seller , and spent all the money trying to get some more ! |
| 29 | ‘ The money has made such a difference , ’ Elizabeth , 52 , acknowledges . |
| 30 | The Watch had ensured this by giving them ample time to escape via the back door , a neat compromise between caution and justice that benefited all parties . |