Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that this norm has altered and that the courts will recognise as valid only legislation which has been passed by both houses and given the royal assent , has not been repealed expressly or by implication and which accords with our obligations under community law . |
| 2 | A spokesman for the Council for the Protection of Rural England has claimed that if the Treasury refuse to " foot the bill " then the government 's " environmental credibility will plummet " . |
| 3 | At times it has looked as though the difficulties might have proved insurmountable , the strain too much . |
| 4 | Peter O'Neill , the Vicar General , representing the Bishop has said that while the financial aspects are clearly important , the most important consideration is the pastoral care of the people . |
| 5 | In the United States , the Attorney General has said that unless the American television industry substantially reduces violent programming over the next year , the government may have to intervene . |
| 6 | The British Medical Association has said that if the legislation does require authorities to keep to drug budgets , the association will see that as a cash limit and cry ‘ foul ’ after accepting assurances from Mr Clarke last week that budgets would not operate as cash limits . |
| 7 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 8 | However , the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore has shown that although the hyacinth is relatively rich in crude protein , protein extracted from it contains large quantities of unfavourable minerals . |
| 9 | Analysis of the moment-by-moment changes in performance over a ten-minute period has shown that while the sleep-deprived subject may be performing well at the beginning , all responses are slowed towards the end , as well as frank lapses occurring . |
| 10 | The analysis of Section 7.3.1 has shown that if the torque producing capability of the stepping motor is to be maximised over the full speed range the switching angle must be made speed-dependent . |
| 11 | Will she tell some of her hon. Friends that a recent independent study has shown that if the basis of representation in Scotland were equated with that in England , the Conservative party in Scotland would cease to be an endangered species and become an extinct species ? |
| 12 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 13 | Experience has shown that if the distinction between these two is reinforced at every opportunity students are very soon comfortable with the difference between assets and expenses and can relate to new and unusual situations . |
| 14 | A study by the Edinburgh-based economic consultancy , Pieda , has shown that if the duty rate per degree of alcohol was raised on wine and lowered on whisky ( and other spirits ) , the standard rate for all alcoholic drinks that would maintain the total tax take would be nearer the wine rate than the spirits rate as wine ( and beer ) account for 76 per cent of all consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks . |
| 15 | Artificial Intelligence research has shown that when the maintenance experts are confronted with a problem they analyse the problem in a structured manner rather than randomly trying all possible alternatives . |
| 16 | It is our conclusion that project objectives are in part being achieved through the growing interest in study skills to which the project has contributed but that the whole area of the relationship between information skills and the curriculum requires much more debate and thought both within the project and in the world of education generally . |
| 17 | { 33 } has demonstrated that when the known parameters for the helium-xenon system are inserted into eqns ( 7.2 ) , then all three classic routes to chaos can be obtained by careful scans over realistic ranges of the control parameters . |
| 18 | 8 Check to see that both postal or hand-delivered material has arrived and whether the journalist needs any more material . |
| 19 | Based on these figures it is clear that income inequality has increased and that the benefits of economic growth have not been evenly distributed . |
| 20 | None the less , it has concluded that if the backlog is to be eliminated there will need to be a similar increase in the recurrent baseline , which represents a substantial commitment of university funding . |
| 21 | The work of Freud , and subsequent psychoanalysts , has indicated that when the pain of unexpressed feelings is not recognized or acknowledged , the subconscious mind ensures that such recognition never re-emerges at a conscious level , but it can nevertheless be a major subconscious influence on the social performance of the individual . |
| 22 | But it has happened and where the park committee wishes to press its objection , the Secretary of State for Agriculture ( or Wales ) must then decide whether a grant is to be paid ( the farmer is of course free to proceed without any grant aid if he wishes ) . |
| 23 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 24 | Evidently in each sentence the purpose of the comma is to tell you that an unusually long subject has finished and that the verb is about to follow . |
| 25 | The government has warned that unless the violence is halted , the transition from white rule to democracy might be delayed . |
| 26 | The real ale group CAMRA has warned that if the Greene King bid is successful they 'll have to pay another six pence for a pint of their favourite beer . |
| 27 | And Chief Constable David Graham has warned that if the Government does not provide extra money , drastic steps will have to be taken . |
| 28 | He has insisted that when the arguments are fully aired , the Scots will realise that dismantling the Union would damage their economy and lessen their country 's influence . |
| 29 | But in the High Court , Parker LJ has stated that whilst the creation of an admissions policy is a matter of discretion for the LEA itself , that policy must enable consideration to be given to exceptional cases and therefore should not be too rigid . |
| 30 | The general feeling that one gets from reading this novel is that nothing much has changed and that the cold-war machinations are still at play and are as irrelevant and as brutal as ever . |