Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " 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 | The Company has offered shareholders the opportunity to elect to receive new ordinary shares of the Company in lieu of cash for the final dividend for each of the last three years and this opportunity will again be offered in respect of the final dividend for 1993 . |
| 3 | I hope you will use the opportunity to get to know new people and make visitors feel welcome . |
| 4 | However , it is unclear to me at this time what recommendations one could put in the form of legislation to be put before the House that would command the majority needed to make sensible legislation , to allow the country to move forward in the 1990s . |
| 5 | Borrowing the terminology used to describe national electoral politics , Gyford ( 1985a ) has characterized this revitalization of local politics as a shift from ‘ nationalization ’ to ‘ reappraisal ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In actuality , the expertise needed to evaluate complex ideas is housed within different sectors of large , highly bureaucratic , and mature organizations : in research and development , marketing , manufacturing , administration , finance , etc . |
| 8 | The continuous line shows what the retailer hopes to sell this year . |
| 9 | Out of his profits , the retailer has to pay all the costs involved in running the shop , that is , his overheads . |
| 10 | The next thing the retailer has to get right is the price of the goods he sells . |
| 11 | The retailer needs to do this in order to predict future sales . |
| 12 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Where the addressee is unknown and feed-back is indirect , as with much institutional writing , the writer has to supply contextual information unnecessary in speech or in letters . |
| 15 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 16 | This the Board failed to make clear . |
| 17 | The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs . |
| 18 | And Brooker expects 1993 to be another good year as Kode has continued to invest in improving the quality of its products — during the year , the board agreed to buy new state-of-the-art plating lines . |
| 19 | Anglo-Welsh plc have now made a further offer for your Company which the Board continues to find unacceptable . |
| 20 | Later , when the Board wanted to supply Upper Bolney Farm by crossing the course , water was conveyed to the greens as part of the wayleave deal at the rate of 10s. 0d. a green or £9 inclusive . |
| 21 | The Board refused to endorse this . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This week the hospice want to thank those who gave in memory of Mr Robinson , Mr Herring , Mr Gargett and Mr Nixon . |
| 25 | Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees . |
| 26 | It also isolated how he has approached the tricky transfer to the screen : ‘ Theatre is the art of suggestion and not of statement … the cinema has to produce complete images . ’ |
| 27 | And because the sentence had to reflect public concern . |
| 28 | As a result of the considerable experience with percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , it was thought that these problems could be rapidly solved and the technique established to replace percutaneous cholecystolithotomy as it could be performed under local anaesthaesia by the transhepatic route and a postprocedural drain could be avoided . |
| 29 | He was way ahead of the rest of the field and battled on through the afternoon trying to win those valuable championship points . |
| 30 | We had one hit record , Tragedy , a million seller , and spent all the money trying to get some more ! |