Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the first opportunity Sarah went again to the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't approach by Guilford Street in case the porter came out of his lodge and recognized her . |
| 2 | He was prepared for a battle if the porter turned out to be as difficult a customer as his wife . |
| 3 | Eventually the porter broke away from him . |
| 4 | The porter staggered drunkenly to his feet . |
| 5 | The porter moved restlessly from one foot to another . |
| 6 | Too frightened to brave the front of the hotel , she found the staff stairs to escape by , and she hid behind a peculiarly luscious tropical plant until she saw the porter waiting perplexedly beside the taxi she 'd ordered . |
| 7 | The defence relied heavily on the legal precedent of Goodchild in the House of Lords in 1978 , where Lord Diplock ruled that it was not illegal to possess naturally occurring substances even if they contained a controlled drug . |
| 8 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 9 | However , it often seems to be the case that the prosecution and the defence move quickly towards an agreement on what happened . |
| 10 | The defence applies only to retailers and not to others in the distribution chain who can rely upon another defence of general application under s39 , namely , " due diligence " . |
| 11 | The response depends critically on the particular experimental method used to provoke it . |
| 12 | Many years ago Gross and his colleagues found neurons at higher levels in the visual pathway in which the vigour of the response varied strongly with details of the shape of an object moved about in the visual field . |
| 13 | However , you can opt to have the income paid out to you every six months , currently in May and November [ subject to the Terms and Conditions ] . |
| 14 | The income arising overseas with respect to the transfer of the asset would not be chargeable until the individual becomes ordinarily resident ( and resident ) in the United Kingdom and until such time as the Revenue can say that had the income been received by the individual in the United Kingdom it would have been chargeable to income tax . |
| 15 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 16 | My eyes were open , just able to discern the tent staked out over me . |
| 17 | I eat the meal inside the tent to get away from the wind , and even there I need an extra jacket . |
| 18 | go down the park come down to the park ? |
| 19 | So he walked in the opposite direction , and he went to the park to get away from the people he might know . |
| 20 | Trees in the park misted over with young green , bright spring yellow flowers crowding front gardens ; embassy lawns starred with daisies ; snowdrop beds , municipal grass studded with crocuses . |
| 21 | In the Department of Trade and Industry case , reported above , junior staff were short of money and welcomed the opportunity to earn more through overtime . |
| 22 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 23 | Surely she would welcome the opportunity to live permanently on the island ? |
| 24 | With a First National Bank loan secured on your property you have the opportunity to borrow up to £50,000 for any purpose whatsoever . |
| 25 | ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home . |
| 26 | It 's not so bad in Division Four , and when the opportunity came up at Ards , I jumped at it , ’ said Armstrong , who captained and coached Bangor before going back to end his playing days at Collegians a few seasons ago . |
| 27 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
| 28 | Passera responds solemnly that there had been the opportunity to sell out to AT&T Co at a very good price , and that option had been rejected . |
| 29 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 30 | The win earns them the opportunity to go forward to the national championships at Hemel Hempstead in the south of England . |