Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 2 | After the elections next spring , Cambodia 's new government should take immediate steps to rein in development in the Angkor zone , and thereby preserve one of the landmarks of Eastern Medieval history . |
| 3 | Keeping up morale in the Falklands |
| 4 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |
| 5 | Once a bankruptcy order is made , it is likely that the proceedings commenced by a Government department in the High Court under r 6.9(1) ( o ) will be transferred to the appropriate county court if the debtor does not reside or carry on business within the London insolvency district . |
| 6 | Aung San 's courage and leadership were shown again in January 1947 , when his political opponents , including the Communists , stirred up agitation against the London Agreement before Aung San had time to get back to Burma and explain the facts . |
| 7 | With the defence ensuring a frustrating afternoon for the league 's leading scorer , Michelle Clark , the rest of the team were able to set up camp in the Wimbledon half . |
| 8 | After the hassle of dealing with the subtle sunlight of evening , it was a sheer relief to set up tripod at the Moorea Village Hotel , and shoot a few of the guests relaxing at sunset beneath the convenient palm-tree across the still waters of the swimming pool ( figure XX ) . |
| 9 | Xerox Corp has some good news for Utica in upstate New York , a town that is more used to news of plant closures : on Maundy Thursday , Xerox announced that it plans to locate a new manufacturing subsidiary in Utica , which could create as many as 300 new jobs , although it will start with only 50 ; the new plant , called the Low Complexity Manufacturing Group Inc , will supply simple subassemblies for integration into Xerox copier and printer products , and could also bring back work to the US from foreign suppliers , as well as saving Xerox $2m a year . |
| 10 | As the Habsburgs advanced step by step , with occasional setbacks , the Turks were gradually pushed back south of the Sava and Danube , and the military frontier was re-established along the full length of the line from Transylvania to the Adriatic . |
| 11 | Lord Owen and his new UN colleague , Thorvald Stoltenberg , Norway 's former foreign minister , have not given up hope for the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 12 | They set up camp on the Kālādika , unloading the yaks and lighting a fire as the moon rose low behind the trees . |
| 13 | This week , the company opened its first European office in London to serve US expatriates and UK investors with an eye on the US market — locking horns in the process with its main American rival , Fidelity Brokerage , which set up shop in the UK four years ago . |
| 14 | The Australian authorities took a commendably enlightened view of the matter , however , and allowed him to carry out research on the Trobriand Islands close to New Guinea . |
| 15 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 16 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 17 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 18 | A recent study by the University of Michigan suggests that 90% of the parts in Japanese cars built in America come either direct from Japan or from Japanese manufacturers which have set up shop in the United States . |
| 19 | In 1988 , media reports of a massive flooding episode that occurred in Bangladesh singled out deforestation in the Himalaya as the most important cause . |
| 20 | In the Cabinet changes carried out in August [ see p. 39067 ] Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took on responsibility for the Aegean and Andreas Andrianopoulos ( hitherto Minister of Industry and Commerce ) became Minister of State , alternating as Government Spokesman with Vassilis Magginas . |
| 21 | In 1988 , after the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza had started their uprising , he made another fateful decision , renouncing Jordan 's claim to the West Bank and handing over responsibility to the Palestine Liberation Organisation . |
| 22 | Semiconductor industry top ten tables show the Japanese industry apparently taking over leadership from the USA around 1985 . |
| 23 | It is also taking over responsibility from the DoH for the Council of Europe fellowships and World Health Organisation fellowships . |
| 24 | In the pilot we go off mine-detecting on the Isle of Wight and discover some lizards . ’ |
| 25 | Eleven Halstead Rotaract members cleaned up part of the River Colne , between the mill and the town 's High Street before having a birthday party — in the middle of the flowing water . |
| 26 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 27 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 28 | Gardiner took up rowing on the Isis and after last year 's event went on to play a valuable part in the Scottish senior men 's winning of the Home International Regatta . |
| 29 | What a sickening feast of hypocrisy we were served up courtesy of the Freddie Mercury Tribute . |
| 30 | If you are a driver with a full licence giving LGV or PCV entitlement and that licence was issued by another Member State you may continue to use that licence for up to 12 months from taking up residence in the UK . |