Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lonely place , though the porter caused some light comedy with his staggering and drunken curses , stopping every so often to wave Ranulf on , urging him to hold the lantern horn higher . |
| 2 | ‘ Both Dame Catherine and the porter mentioned these two corpses being found in the wood which lies between the priory and the palace . |
| 3 | ‘ At the same time , the midfield was overrun in the second half and the defence made some horrendous errors . |
| 4 | For example , at the screening stage , discussed above , it might be desirable to establish whether the defence has any complaints against the original investigation . |
| 5 | Taken at face value their evidence was a powerful counterweight to the tenuous defence of accident and the defence needed all the information it could get in order to decide how best to attack the Crown case . |
| 6 | When the defence requested more time to prepare their case , Jeffries raged , ‘ I will not give him a minute 's time more to save his life ’ . |
| 7 | But the defence accused some of the teenagers of conspiring against foster parents , Norman and Evelyn Roberts , of Gwalchmai , Anglesey , and of planning to share any compensation Mr Jones might receive . |
| 8 | Prepare pairs of stimulus and response utterances in which the stimulus uses one tune and the response requires another tune . |
| 9 | Psychologically , as the response is always rewarded when this crucial element is present , the response becomes more and more strongly connected with the relevant cue and extinguished as a response to other cues . |
| 10 | As the fund is used up , the income becomes less and less and the amounts withdrawn from the capital of the fund become greater and greater , because the total sum to be provided in such year — the £3,750 — is assumed … to remain constant throughout the relevant period . |
| 11 | The income to finance that expenditure ( 41.8bn in 1984/5 ) was raised from three main sources : 1 ) rates , 11.3bn ( 27 per cent ) ; 2 ) government grants , 16.4bn ( 39.2 per cent ) ; 3 ) charges and miscellaneous 14.1bn ( 33.8 per cent ) ( all figures from Travers , 1986 . |
| 12 | Gives her income and it 's balanced by her allowances and if you move not sufficient to , for the income to exceed that then at the same time it goes into a bank or building society you apply for them not to deduct income . |
| 13 | The income to pay these video costs is usually minimal with new artists , so these expenses are often set against future video exploitation . |
| 14 | At the TUC conference , which was intended by its chairman , David Basnett , to be a pre-election rally , the premier displayed some unwonted frivolity , singing an old music-hall song about ‘ There she was , waiting at the church ’ . |
| 15 | The inner goes up first and is clipped onto the two glassfibre poles which cross at the apex of the tent using several plastic hooks . |
| 16 | The inability to confirm this well-known fact has not spoilt the sudden acceptance of the placebo as something with at least a false concrete explanation rather than being some form of gothic magic about which it is better not to speak . |
| 17 | Suppose we are interested in deafness defined as the inability to hear some standard sound through headphones . |
| 18 | If the chaining method is used , the lack of a home record will lead to the inability to retrieve any record further along the chain . |
| 19 | By the end of 1994 thousands more retail staff will have had the opportunity to earn this important award . |
| 20 | Others — pilgrims , itinerants , beggars , hawkers — used the station because they could find there light , water , security from robbers , as well as the opportunity to earn some money . |
| 21 | A once-weekly trip gave them the opportunity to earn some ‘ pin money ’ and secure a change of scene from their relatively monotonous round . |
| 22 | Sixty-five regardless bearing in mind we 've now offered women the opportunity to earn more money from the year two thousand and ten , and not retiring until sixty-five . |
| 23 | It is very helpful if the renewal cards can be used , so please take the opportunity to remind all class members . |
| 24 | The presentations of the results followed the same format as last year and journalists invited to Blackfriars were given the opportunity to sample some of the own brand products introduced into stores in 1992/93 . |
| 25 | Erm , may I take the opportunity to say that cross border is a bit of a misnomer , erm , it 's , the correct term is really doing work for other bodies . |
| 26 | The Exhibition celebrated Museums Year and also gave the opportunity to display some of the County 's resources . |
| 27 | What accountability rests on is that those particular representatives of the local authority have the opportunity to ask any question and have it answered at any time during the three hundred and sixty five days of the year in which we operate , and they are in a specially privileged position to challenge , or question , or talk about , or have answered — any particular point with regard to the work we 're involved with . |
| 28 | Candidates for an overseas assignment should have had the opportunity to digest all information given to them on the new job , country , life style , compensation package and effects on their careers and families before being interviewed for the post . |
| 29 | Liley spent a season playing in the second team with just half a dozen first-team appearances before the opportunity came this season , and so far it has gone remarkably well . |
| 30 | This , of course , may be the proverbial ‘ chicken and the egg situation ’ , in that historians in this country have not had the opportunity to use such electronic text sources , and have therefore failed to address the issues involved . |