Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument was that crustal shortening within the continents would produce the same displacement of underlying layers , but the seas would be spread wider and therefore lower . |
| 2 | The cost of taking a position in such cross rates will be reduced if the contracts can achieve the necessary volume and liquidity . |
| 3 | It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed . |
| 4 | The clubs could attempt the task , and indeed their origins include the desire on the part of settlement workers to preach the virtues of citizenship , just as Scouting did more than twenty years later . |
| 5 | As an auditor will qualify his or her report only in relation to a material matter , the reader of the accounts should consider the matter seriously . |
| 6 | Hall considered that any development that could meet the expectations of the institutions should have the aim of assisting them ‘ in achieving full maturity ’ . |
| 7 | The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect . |
| 8 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 9 | The Galleries will bridge the snarling ring road , which will be buried in decorous tunnels . |
| 10 | If these conditions prevailed in a public company , the shareholders would sack the board of directors out of hand , while in a private company , bankruptcy would soon occur . |
| 11 | Sometimes it is argued that the interests of the shareholders can provide the directors of the company with a purely objective standard on which to base their decisions if the interests of the shareholders are equated with profit-maximization . |
| 12 | It 's hard now to see how The Shamen will keep the club vibe going in the stadiums they will undoubtedly end up playing , how Colin will avoid the rock postures he hates so much . |
| 13 | The McLaggans were spoiling for a fight and I thought the lairds might have the mettle to retaliate . ’ |
| 14 | If this inversion is only 100–300 metres deep , tall industrial stacks may release their emissions above the inversion , or the emissions may penetrate the inversion because they have great buoyancy due to high temperatures and fast exit velocities . |
| 15 | Also known as gland nut or slip-joint pliers , these pliers , unlike other gripping wrenches , are useful for turning nuts as the serrations will grip the nut safely . |
| 16 | In our example the courts would classify the condition of the house , " furnished , " as a jurisdictional fact . |
| 17 | The traditional position was that the courts would control the existence and extent of prerogative power , but not the manner of exercise thereof . |
| 18 | Their doubts arose from the inability to predict or control how the courts would use the power . |
| 19 | It is not clear whether the courts would take the same attitude in relation to a general disclosure in a discretionary customer agreement of the fact that the firm might sometimes act as principal . |
| 20 | Because of the similarity of wording between s.69 and s.5 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 , it would appear that the courts may hold the same view with regard to civil evidence . |
| 21 | In exceptional cases the courts may take the view that established practice is unsatisfactory and find negligence . |
| 22 | The courts may allow the plaintiff to rely on the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur . |
| 23 | ‘ The public want to see the courts pass sentences that are just and to do this the courts must use the powers this Government has given them . |
| 24 | Instead , the courts will subject the clause to the objective test of reasonableness . |
| 25 | In the area of competition and canvassing there are three general headings under which the courts will examine the existence of reasonableness of a restraint : 4.1 Restricted activities If the employer seeks by contractual restraint to restrict the activities of a former employee by proscribing the types of business in which the employee may become engaged once employment is over then he can only do so if he can establish a close connection betwee the restriction and the work done by the employee prior to leaving . |
| 26 | The decision of the House of Lords in Anisminic Ltd v. Foreign Compensation Commission shows how , on occasion , the courts will resist the strongest efforts of the government to exclude them from reviewing executive discretion . |
| 27 | Where the third party act consists of deliberate wrongful conduct the courts will use the tests set out in Home Office v Dorset Yacht and Lamb v Camden ( see above ) . |
| 28 | Thus the case law under the 1973 Act is likely to be a good guide as to how the courts will approach the current test . |
| 29 | It is possible that the courts will allow the Revenue to ( in effect ) have the benefit of hindsight . |
| 30 | In exercising this discretion the courts will balance the public interest in the prosecution of crime against the interest of the accused in securing a fair trial . |