Example sentences of "the [noun pl] with a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |
| 2 | Erm , I 'm not in a position to add anything very much to the article for next year , I spent most of Friday afternoon with the Tech last week , erm , but there 's still obviously a good deal of uncertainty about programmes for next year , erm , what I think has been very positive is that we have now er , this year for the first time since the Tech 's formation , they 've started to discuss some of the issues about the programmes with a group of providers . |
| 3 | Its job is to look at all instruments laid before the Houses with a view to drawing the attention of the Houses to such instruments as are specified in its terms of reference . |
| 4 | Also on Saturday , June 27 , shareholders of the West Somerset Railway will join in the festivities with a ride over the Quantocks in a special train from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead . |
| 5 | The Youngest Son , pale and drawn , but smiling and trying to tease , walked up the steps with a drip of sodium , sucrose and potassium attached to his left arm . |
| 6 | In terms of the age distribution , the elasticity of expected duration with respect to benefits is 0.18 for men under 20 , decreases with age to a value of 0.06 for men over 55 ; NNS found the effect to be largest for the teenagers with a value of 0.65 . |
| 7 | Having swept through the shops with A Place of Stones , this Irish writer is now a book a year person , and here gives us another tale about twins , only this time about boys . |
| 8 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 9 | Andrée stood in the round room looking at the books with a mixture of curiosity and distaste . |
| 10 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |
| 11 | I myself was accidentally witness to the diverting scene of a journeyman taylor 's beating his wife about the ears with a neck of mutton , to make her know , as he said , her sovereign lord and master . |
| 12 | They took that into account when building their third house , in a small development off a country lane on the Highgate side of Kenwood , but stuck to their usual system of Geoffrey working out the designs with a lot of input from Elaine . |
| 13 | The visitors reduced the arrears with a try on twenty minutes scored by Colin Vynal and converted by Neil Smith , and right on the interval took the lead with another try , this time from skipper , Simon Grater erm again converted by Neil Smith following a mistake in the Old Boys ' defence . |
| 14 | The Committee has commented to the Health and Safety Commission , directly and through CIC , on draft regulations and an approved code of practice intended to implement the EC Temporary and Mobile Construction Sites Directive , stressing the need for clarity in defining the roles of all the parties with a responsibility for site safety . |
| 15 | Francis Dashwood spoke the words with a grin on his wrinkled features . |
| 16 | The striking contrast between Hitler 's deliberate flaunting hints — barbaric , but nevertheless generalized and abstract — of the dire events unfolding in the east and the suppression of ‘ hard ’ information about the actual mechanics of mass murder , mirrors the manner in which Hitler , as the driving force behind genocide , even privately combined massive threats against the Jews with a taboo on the details of extermination . |
| 17 | In April 1985 an American , Mr. H. Ross Perot arrived on the islands and approached the defendants with a view to purchasing property . |
| 18 | i longed for my muse to appear and scatter the philistines with a wave of her magic wand , her third , all-seeing eye , but i made do with a scented geisha … |
| 19 | Then using white butter icing I make two sets of icing , say pink and white , and cover half the cakes with a layer of white and half with a layer of pink , decorate some with chocolate strands and some with hundreds and thousands ( sprinkleys ) . |
| 20 | Under Rule 3.2 the board of an offeror company must obtain competent independent advice on any offer which is a reverse takeover or presents the directors with a conflict of interest . |
| 21 | Another way of putting it , and this may be the section 's true significance , is that the section provides the directors with a defence in the event of their making a decision that favours the employees at the shareholders ' expense . |
| 22 | I lunched on a cheese roll and a packet of crisps while Bunny — no day is wasted — chatted up the sulking wife or girlfriend of one of the lunch-time Real Ale bores who was drinking his way round the hand-pumps with a group of mates . |
| 23 | They polished off the Australians with a piece of Double Gloucester and the three women saw him off . |
| 24 | I believe England have trumped the Indians with a bid of about £300,000 to each of the nine major Test playing nations . |
| 25 | I believe England have trumped the Indians with a bid of about Pounds 300,000 to each of the nine major Test-playing nations . |
| 26 | The role of the professional is to listen and understand the parents ' views , aims , and expectations and to provide the parents with a range of suitable options and the necessary information from which to select . |
| 27 | Grease and line a 15cm/6in round cake tin and an 18cm/7in round cake tin with a double layer of greaseproof paper , then wrap the tins with a collar of double thickness brown paper — it needs to stand well above the tin . |
| 28 | They 're small , lightweight and easy to hold and use — you control the blades with a touch of a button . |
| 29 | This is because the mutual structure of the with-profits fund will remain and the investment returns on this fund will be for the sole benefit of the policyholders with a stake in this fund . |
| 30 | Arrange the ‘ rockets ’ in rows on a lightly-greased baking tray and cover the ends of the skewers with a piece of foil . |