Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Acts also provide for a quota scheme , which makes it compulsory for every employer of more than twenty people to take on a quota of at least 3 per cent registered disabled , although few firms adhere to this scheme and monitoring is poor . |
| 2 | They have a dual purpose , for on the one hand they teach how to act in specific situations , but , conversely , the guide-lines also function as a means of typification for classifying incidents . |
| 3 | The limited liability of the shareholders then appeared as a sort of concession to the creditors of the company rather than an arbitrary limitation on the normal liability imposed on partners in a business association . |
| 4 | I mentioned that the patterns often arise from a ‘ hurt ’ . |
| 5 | An internal squabble amongst the ranks soon grows into a minor riot with fists and curses flying . |
| 6 | Most analysts have now cut their first quarter forecast , and the views now range from a loss of 64 cents a share to a profit of eight cents — and David Wu of S G Warburg has gone out on a limb with forecast $0.80 a share loss . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the courts sometimes act on a second principle , stated by Cross as follows . |
| 8 | The Germans naturally excelled at a style developed by themselves ; most commonly this was a simplification of Gothic features . |
| 9 | Barnes put the Lions ahead to stay with a 33rd minute penalty and Clement and Rory Underwood scored second-half tries for the touring side . |
| 10 | The revenue investment proposals , the area of biggest concern for commentators , were dropped from FRED 1 when it became clear that there was virtually no support for them — a watered-down version of the proposals subsequently appeared in a discussion draft , putting forward the ASB 's suggestions for an Operating and Financial Review . |
| 11 | Nor were the Russians always spoiling for a fight . |
| 12 | Thus the Yukagirs almost disappeared as a people , partly through assimilation to their stronger neighbours , and partly because of the disruption of the whole Yukagir community by the recruitment of their menfolk as native auxiliaries in the Russian campaigns against other native peoples , such as the Lamuts or Even Tungus of the Okhotsk seaboard . |
| 13 | They have been beaten finalists on three occasions and the setbacks now act as a spur to the present squad . |
| 14 | The rules usually start with a formal , printed rulebook , succeeded by amendments and interpretation . |
| 15 | The researchers eventually stumbled on a 1979 article in a little-known medical journal , Psychiatry Research , which described the plight and eventual suicide of a 23-year-old graduate student . |
| 16 | The paralleling of Sweeney and the Cyclops here does on a small scale the work of the anthropologists ' comparative method , ‘ to make manifest the similarities and identities underlying the customs of races very remote in every way from each other ’ , though both are part of the ‘ mind of Europe ’ . |
| 17 | The pattern of attacks has not really changed at all ; the Iraqis go for the Iranian oil tankers on the shuttle from Kharg Island to Larak Island , and the Iranians then retaliate with a burst of rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire against almost any vessel unaccompanied by a warship . |
| 18 | The lights changed and the cars grudgingly screeched to a halt . |
| 19 | ‘ I like to get pictures as if the horse is about to blink or breathe , the nostrils about to expand or contract , the legs about to break into a trot or canter . ’ |
| 20 | Conceived initially as a spy series for Ian Hendry and Patrick MacNee , The Avengers quickly developed into a stylish combination of James Bond action/adventure with frequent science fiction overtones , the latter a narrative form much loved by Newman . |
| 21 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 22 | If , however , no undertakings can be negotiated and the MMC investigates the merger and finds that it operates or may be expected to operate against the public interest , the Secretary of State has power to order the parties not to proceed with a proposed merger or to order divestment by the purchasing company if the merger has been completed . |
| 23 | This should ensure an adherence to a timetable which otherwise might be lacking in the case of an agreement between the parties not supported by a binding contract . |
| 24 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 25 | She gave the money for the words not used to a boy with ringworm throwing stones at a cat on a wall . |
| 26 | Thus the words supposedly uttered by a despairing king , just before he turned his face to the wall to die , are an immediate symbol of the reaction of very many of those on whom Mary Queen of Scots was to make an impact , in her lifetime and thereafter . |
| 27 | She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables . |
| 28 | The negotiators immediately ran into a problem : no-one on Louis 's and Charles 's side had a thorough knowledge of the whole " empire " ( totius imperii ) . |
| 29 | The companies also profited from a bizarre system whereby shipbuilders who exported were given import quotas for raw sugar , which could be sold at a hefty profit . |
| 30 | As the blades only meet at a single point when cutting , they retain their sharpness for a lifetime of use . |