Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by then he had already come to doubt whether Parliament shared the commitment he felt , with Harrison , to the kingdom of Christ on earth . |
| 2 | ‘ I will want Parliament to see the report the Government has got . |
| 3 | The culture-ideology of consumerism produces the values and attitudes that create and sustain the need for the products . |
| 4 | The ‘ she-male ’ character of the Bessy is not merely a woman impersonated by a man , but denotes a combination of both male and female , a total unity encompassing the whole in primitive man 's attempt to understand the universe . |
| 5 | The circular makes clear that a decision to implement the contingency plans would be ‘ subject to collective ministerial authority ’ . |
| 6 | This led to battles with senior management who questioned the status of the policy decision to implement the new system . |
| 7 | There was substantial agreement on changing policies on South Africa , which I much welcome , and there was a warm welcome for our decision to implement the Trinidad terms arrangement , which , if fully implemented by every member , will relieve the poorest countries in the world of $17,000 million of debt . |
| 8 | Prime Minister V. P. Singh 's decision to implement the reservation scheme generated widespread civil disorder throughout northern India , and his determination to go ahead with the plan despite the unrest was a major political gamble . |
| 9 | The government had announced in early August its decision to implement the Commission 's recommendations to reserve 27 per cent of public-sector jobs for members of the lower castes , a decision which had resulted in widespread civil disorder and had exacerbated the already tense political situation [ see pp. 37653 ; 37710-11 ] . |
| 10 | This criticism was also echoed by Dr Mudthir El Tinquawi the former director of Khartoum University who accused the Government of making a political decision to implement the concept of ‘ arabisation ’ in the country 's universities , while failing to provide financial support . |
| 11 | Accordingly , the level of bargaining influences the distribution of internal union power . |
| 12 | Again we are confronted with a system of control in part generating the terms , the concepts , and the space of its own negation . |
| 13 | Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action . |
| 14 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 15 | Indeed , the Angolan constitution contains a provision prohibiting the installation of foreign military bases . |
| 16 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 17 | Although libertarianism at present constitutes the main driving force for the Federation of Conservative Students , there was no evidence of this ideological philosophy in the branches we studied . |
| 18 | There is the prospect of some government funding to compare the underpinning knowledge of NVQs/SVQs at these higher levels with that demanded for qualifications offered by the CIB . |
| 19 | The new catchment boards ' first decade of river clearance was followed by the outbreak of war , during which Parliament empowered the boards to carry out even more extensive work at the request of county war agricultural executive committees . |
| 20 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |
| 21 | The grateful colonists used the opportunity to expropriate the cattle and other assets of the fugitives . |
| 22 | Right , and the other story goes The angels go to Be |
| 23 | The answer to that may be that lowering cholesterol influences the level of serotonin , a neurotransmitter which affects mood . |
| 24 | A previous Tory Home Secretary wrote in the White Paper : ’ Since the Prior committee 's report was published , the Government 's Public Order Bill has been put before Parliament Given the restructuring of public order offences in the Public Order Bill , the Government 's view is that there is no need for a further public offence of prison mutiny . ’ |
| 25 | I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation . |
| 26 | This response represents the isomorphic struggle to resolve meaning , at the level of metaphor . |
| 27 | What is needed is at least 100 MPs present to support the Bill . |
| 28 | A pointer is touched against each point of intersection on the grid and the digitizer records the position in the computer . |
| 29 | After Charibert 's death Leudast made the mistake of wishing to see Tours transferred to the kingdom of Chilperic . |
| 30 | James placed two dishes of kidneys in champagne and mushroom catsup sauce on the table while Algernon and Heinrich faced the organised maelstrom of the kitchen to gather the quails and cutlets for the remove . |