Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 2 | The Rules do contain adequate provisions for appeal by the person upon whom a notice is served . |
| 3 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 4 | The authorities did seek reserve powers by making all land subject to compulsory purchase , although they intended to leave most of it in the developers ' hands . |
| 5 | But some of the headmasters have a deliberate multi-denominational policy in terms of ethos and curriculum and the schools do provide multi-denominational settings which , if researched , could throw light on debates about denominational and shared schools . |
| 6 | The companies do promise existing software will be binary compatible with whatever they eventually come out with . |
| 7 | But the stats do indicate certain things , such as that Tom Kite was the worst putter on Tour last year ( at least among those with more than a golf game ) , that Mark Calcavecchia was the best all-round player in America , his critics be damned . |
| 8 | As one graduate who is now living and working in the States , where the universities do award impressive diplomas for display , I would enjoy having a diploma from the University of Nottingham hanging on my wall . |
| 9 | However , the searches did find related sequences . |
| 10 | I wanted to tell him that the proletariat of the suburbs did have strong class feeling . |
| 11 | Maxwell told New Scientist that the sluices do need remedial work to make them safe . |
| 12 | However that may be , the entrepreneurs do have powerful friends in Bangkok : the finance minister has an interest in the glass industry ; the interior minister has an interest in soda ash . |
| 13 | Yet the point of this short section has been to establish that where the jurists did face similar problems in coping with defective trust dispositions , they proceeded in very much the same way as they had done with legacies . |
| 14 | In addition to this breach of the moral duty of fidelity , the court appears to have been concerned with the risk of confidential information being passed to competitors , because it was satisfied that the plaintiffs did own certain business secrets of which the employees had knowledge . |
| 15 | Psychologist Professor Barbara Tizard of the Institute of Education found that , although about 16% of the children did feel unhappy and that they ‘ did n't belong ’ , three-quarters felt perfectly at ease with their peers and reckoned that Afro-Caribbean culture , music and ‘ style ’ were generally admired . |
| 16 | Despite the rather weak research literature on differences in behaviours between people from different countries , most of the findings do support popular stereotypes . |
| 17 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |