Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
3 | The continuous line shows what the retailer hopes to sell this year . |
4 | Out of his profits , the retailer has to pay all the costs involved in running the shop , that is , his overheads . |
5 | The retailer needs to do this in order to predict future sales . |
6 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
9 | The Board refused to endorse this . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | This week the hospice want to thank those who gave in memory of Mr Robinson , Mr Herring , Mr Gargett and Mr Nixon . |
13 | He was way ahead of the rest of the field and battled on through the afternoon trying to win those valuable championship points . |
14 | We had one hit record , Tragedy , a million seller , and spent all the money trying to get some more ! |
15 | Although the case failed to resolve several crucial legal and ethical problems , its outcome was hailed as a victory for the growing right-to-die lobby within the USA . |
16 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
17 | The term originated with automatic stacking-cranes but as fork-lift truck equipment progressively increased in height and other types of automatic systems emerged , the description extended to include such equipment . |
18 | For example : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract , the whole balance then outstanding shall immediately become payable . |
19 | The problems which those words can create are illustrated by a provision such as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract , recover goods already delivered and retain all payments already made . |
20 | The drafter may be tempted to overcome this problem by using " and/or " , as follows : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract and/or recover goods already delivered and/or retain all payments already made . |
21 | Thus , the above provision could be worded as : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone or in any combination : ( a ) terminate the contract ( b ) recover goods already delivered ( c ) retain all payments already made . |
22 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
23 | Did he , did he have a the buyer have to sell some property ? |
24 | Does not that remark demonstrate that we never had an independent nuclear deterrent , as neither President Yeltsin nor anyone else in the Soviet Union accepted it as a deterrent ; and that we have poured tens of billions of pounds down the drain trying to maintain that mystique ? |
25 | ‘ Young people , ’ Nancy said firmly , ‘ are all in the kitchen getting to know each other . ’ |
26 | So convinced are such people that to be impaired is to ‘ die ’ that no amount of protestation to the contrary seems to make any difference . |
27 | The extraordinary plumages of the male suffice to attract several females , who then rear their young alone ( see Selander 1972 ) . |
28 | The University continues to foster this relationship with its neighbouring college of higher education , while at the same time recognising that the changes proposed most recently in initial teaching training are likely to have a significant impact on its provision in Education . |
29 | From his papers discovered after the war it would appear that the Admiral began to plan such an attack in earnest about this time . |
30 | It may be questioned whether or not the user needs to retrieve all of the possible relevant documents for a specific query at any one point in time . |