Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.

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31 Is the potential for misidentification any less when the defence bear the burden of proof ?
32 His three first-half points helped Magherafelt to a 0–6 to 0–3 interval lead , and the defence did the rest .
33 The response recognises the need for substantial reform in this area of the law , including clarification and guidelines in regard to tests of capacity .
34 The response exacerbated the strikes , and by the end of June 1991 both disputes were growing in scope and intensity .
35 For some cells they had the strong impression that the response increased the more the object resembled a monkey 's hand , while in others the trigger feature appeared to be a monkey 's face or head .
36 The income becomes the highest part of the settlor 's income although the settlor has a right to recover the tax from the trust .
37 Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease .
38 Elf astrologers and geomancers studied the portents to divine the best time for the new king to begin his reign , and calculated the best time for him to pass through the flame .
39 After you 've tried all of these , you should have found that while the chromatic scale meanders slowly up and down , taking its time to reach its goal , the arpeggio crosses the strings at a dramatic rate of knots !
40 Labour 's Bryan Gould claimed the Premier struck the deal on his £220,000 detached home this summer in case loan rates shot up .
41 A spokesman for the premier told The Art Newspaper these changes will not affect government policy .
42 In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy .
43 The Premier dismissed the Minister of Finance , Sani Lakatani , and the Minister of Works , Frank Lui , on Sept. 18 , 1990 , after they refused to resign at his request .
44 The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same .
45 Consumer Studies brings together the disciplines governing the design , development and management of consumer goods and services ( with particular reference to food , textiles and the home ) and explores the interdisciplinary relationship of these to the needs and responses of consumers .
46 I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun .
47 Push the crate left to hit the switch , go down , collect the star and fly up , left and then down , go left , collect the star , fly straight right , then fly up , land on one of the platforms on the side of the wall , jump up and go right on the chair-lifts , go down , right through the wall , climb up the blocks , push the crate down two platforms and go back through the wall , go left , down , right and jump onto the boat , go right , up and left into the tent to complete the game .
48 So he says , might be a good idea t to you know put the van in front of the tent to break the wind .
49 Indeed , as we have seen , such an infantile fixation at a pre-genital stage is an inevitable consequence of the very thing which explains the protests and the revolt against authority — the inability to transcend the phallic , Oedipal phase .
50 In the last chapter we saw that the crisis of capitalism resulted from the crisis of humanism — the inability to resolve the basic tension between freedom and control .
51 Complete deadlock existed after the inability to resolve the intransigence in the Joint Commission .
52 One of the major disadvantages of MRI in the chest is the inability to visualise the lungs , which are simply seen as a signal void .
53 Although attempts have been made to solve these problems through the ingestion of radiotelemetric pressure sensors , these efforts have been hampered by intermittent signal loss and the inability to control the location of the capsule within the gastrointestinal tract .
54 For him , the inability to locate the source of the trouble resulted in unmethodical chaos .
55 But these offsets are seldom adequate to compensate for the inability to afford the technological investments needed to compete globally .
56 there are two other problems : the c/k confusion , and the inability to understand the effect of the e-marker .
57 This initiative is perhaps most needed in those very small congregations where there are few musical resources , and where the inability to maintain the ‘ traditional ’ style of music has led to near-despair .
58 There were repeated attempts to negotiate a more satisfactory agreement , but these foundered in 1924 , 1926 and 1929 on the inability to match the aspirations of Egypt for full independence with Britain 's perception of the requirements needed to protect her interests .
59 Headache from the inability to focus the eyes rapidly enough , from eye strain .
60 Hold the leaders hostage in the hall whilst the larger force punch their way through the defences to take the Rorim from its leaderless and probably drunk defenders .
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