Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counter attacking , the defence brought in a consultant neurologist who testified , on the basis of medical records and EEG tests , to the likelihood of brain damage in Mr X in childhood , and a second clinical psychologist , who had made a special study of faking and said that Mr X could n't fake an IQ test to save his life , or words to that effect . |
| 2 | Having borrowed money to maintain their vast estates they found that the estates were too inefficient to generate the income to pay back the loans . |
| 3 | The inability to carry out an agreed suggestion may indicate that neither the follower nor the leader had really understood the problem when the objective was set . |
| 4 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 5 | BIRKENHEAD 'S Queensway tunnel will be closed for major electrical works this week and Mersey Tunnels staff are taking the opportunity to spruce up the tube . |
| 6 | JUNE 16 : Today I visited the Department of Trade and Industry , where I had the opportunity to pick up a copy of The Personal Protective Equipment Directive ( Directive 89/686/EEC ) , which as a every single-market fan will know , cam into force on July 1 , 1992 . |
| 7 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 8 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
| 9 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 10 | ‘ The Territorial Army are using the opportunity to carry out an exercise in — ah — conditions where large numbers of civilians are present . |
| 11 | Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team . |
| 12 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 13 | Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease . |
| 14 | If you are laying new insulation , take the opportunity to put down a vapour barrier of heavy-duty polythene sheeting over the loft floor first , if the plasterboard has no foil face . |
| 15 | As was mentioned earlier , they enjoyed filling out psychological tests and had requested the opportunity to fill out an IQ test . |
| 16 | As the paint bleeds onto the damp paper , I take the opportunity to blot out a central area along the line of the steps onto which the bulk of the light falls . |
| 17 | As the paint bleeds onto the damp paper , I take the opportunity to blot out a central area along the line of the steps onto which the bulk of the light falls . |
| 18 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 19 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 20 | A telephone conversation allows the opportunity to build up a personal relationship . |
| 21 | Demonstrations of Prestel are given as part of the information skills courses and pupils have the opportunity to try out the system . |
| 22 | Producer Michael Mills saw the opportunity to team up a new writer with an actor new to television comedy . |
| 23 | Bide your time , be patient and take the opportunity to think through an ambitious aim . |
| 24 | It was a day to remember ; we were all quite taken by Fair Isle and I took the opportunity to dig out a few facts and figures about this remote island . |
| 25 | He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday . |
| 26 | All the sounds are bright and punchy , the humbucker dishing out the appropriate amount of clean chunk or coil-tapped crunch when desired . |
| 27 | A group of us were able to provide almost all the funding to set up a pump and latrines for one particular village in India . |
| 28 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 29 | It was for the juy to tie up the loose ends , unemotionally . |
| 30 | The ARC/INFO ERASE command ( the Boolean equivalent of NOT ) is used to remove the constrained areas from the coverage to build up a composite coverage . |