Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This present trip represents , after all , a rare opportunity for me to savour to the full the many splendours of the English countryside , and I know I shall greatly regret it later if I allow myself to become unduly diverted . |
| 2 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 3 | 1.13 Our fundamental assumption is that all pupils are entitled to an education that will provide the opportunity for them to develop to the best of their abilities a competence in and appreciation of English . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ It was an opportunity for everyone connected with the project , both BNFL staff and contractors , to bring in their families and explain what THORP is all about . |
| 5 | ABC offers the unique opportunity for us to expand in the general trade market and simultaneously take advantage of its very successful relationship with speciality booksellers . ’ |
| 6 | In addition to the defences above , it is a defence for anyone charged under the Consumer Protection Act to show that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 7 | Whether school RE reflects the obvious case for it depends upon the openness with which it is approached and the style of teaching adopted . |
| 8 | It 'll make a change for him to cook in the open instead of the kitchen . ’ |
| 9 | Trent held eight of the fresh thousand-dollar bills folded in the back pocket of his jeans ; the original three for the charter augmented by a further five in payment for his agreeing to the rendezvous . |
| 10 | But strong support for her persisted in the party outside Parliament . |
| 11 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 12 | The other part of the decision about what falls within the working definition of ‘ pollution ’ is a judgment as to whether the effluent will have an ‘ impact ’ . |
| 13 | The governing body insists leagues will start next September , but it wants to delay as long as possible any decision about what to do with the Merit teams . |
| 14 | But the bureaucratic complexities start with the decision about what to do with the computers run by the National Weather Service , which , like NESDIS , is part of the government 's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . |
| 15 | DO YOU wake up every morning dreading the decision about what to wear to the office ? |
| 16 | Now that Hilary was three years old , Stephen had made it clear to his own mother that the necessity for her to remain at the Manor was past . |
| 17 | There was , however , no necessity for us to go down the hill for water , for if we continued a little further we should find a good spring on the road . |
| 18 | Douglas McGregor ( Leadership and Motivation ) wrote about his own experiences as a college president that : ‘ It took a couple of years , but I finally began to realise that a leader can not avoid the exercise of authority any more than he can avoid responsibility for what happens in the organisation . ’ |
| 19 | My right hon. Friend rightly accepts responsibility for what happens in the Home Office . |
| 20 | And I daresay the worry about what to do with the cat or the problem of finding spare time in the executive diary keeps other unhappy couples together . |
| 21 | Mr de Klerk may , therefore , find it harder to get approval from the white electorate for whatever emerges from the negotiating table . |
| 22 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 23 | Providing an answer , in contrast , is not simple and the search for it goes to the very heart of the Verkehrsberuhigung concept . |
| 24 | According to Yggdrasil , Daine was making a bid for what amounted to the job of king of the world . |
| 25 | ‘ Was it common practice for you to journey after the King to ensure all was well . |
| 26 | It provides a conceptual setting for what follows in the succeeding chapters . |
| 27 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 28 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 29 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |
| 30 | In 1958 and 1959 Uruguay sold 16 per cent of its wool exports to Communist countries , the bulk of which went to the Soviet Union . |