Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key stages of preparation are to become familiar with all the facts as recorded in key documents , for example correspondence , meeting records , site measurements , wage sheets and plant invoices try to agree the facts with the engineer and/or contractor check the claim is in order with respect to time and/or documentation and that it complies with the contract |
| 2 | The main hills were in the south , where Saxony included the outriders of the Hartz mountains . |
| 3 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 4 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 5 | The gist of it was summed up in the formula cuius regio , eius religio which meant that each king or prince had the right to choose the religion of his subjects . |
| 6 | Today you are allowed an extra glass of wine or champagne to celebrate the achievement of completing your first week . |
| 7 | Fans of Sting , Henry Van Hammer & Co get the chance to hear their heroes on my Downtown show tonight at 11 pm . |
| 8 | The Cook & Co pursues the idea that no meal is made without sacrifice to an extreme conclusion that is macabre and funny , but there is an element of truth that ought to be more widely recognised in our squeamish society . |
| 9 | Cassell & Co published the book . |
| 10 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 11 | Its auditor , Arthur Andersen & Co informed the company that it is withdrawing its audit reports dated August 19 on the company 's financial statements included in the 10K , Sequoia added . |
| 12 | The general intention in each case was not to screen the train completely , but to ensure that trains did not suddenly come into view without warning , for that would have given no time for a rider or driver to control the horse , which might otherwise bold or unseat its rider . |
| 13 | The boot-and-brushing room , where Twomey did the hunting clothes and Dada 's clothes and boots and shoes ; a lesser room for lamps and other people 's boots and shoes . |
| 14 | The comprehensive nature of the local groups is evident from a list of their duties , which were to focus the efforts of different agencies dealing with juvenile employment ; to organize methods of collecting information about the character , education , and home life of school-leavers , usually with the assistance of teachers and school care committees ( SCCs ) ( which were under the control of the education offices ) ; to form subcommittees or rotas to attend the labour exchange for the purpose of interviewing applicants and parents ; and to organize a system of ‘ after-care ’ in co-operation with SCCs , clubs , and other similar organizations . |
| 15 | Although the choice of task may , according to this notion , be consciously or unconsciously determined by political factors , the subsequent choice of machine or technique to achieve the task is claimed to remain a politically neutral technical task ’ |
| 16 | Things such as ‘ If I have been wrong , please forgive me ’ or attempts to share the blame with others are ineffective in restoring trust . |
| 17 | For purposes of litigation , it is true , an infant can and must be represented by an adult , who will be called ‘ the next friend ’ of an infant plaintiff , the ‘ guardian ad litem ’ of an infant defendant ; but such a next friend or guardian represents the infant only for the purposes of the particular lawsuit , and is not necessarily , though he is commonly , the infant 's parent or general guardian . |
| 18 | My mother will , of course , succeed , being a very determined person ; this day is far too important to allow the caterers or hoteliers to dictate the proceedings . |
| 19 | The bill of lading is a document that the master of the vessel gives to the merchant-shipper in which he acknowledges having received on board a number of packages or cases containing the quantity or quality of merchandise to be consigned or delivered to a person in the place where the ship must go . |
| 20 | in what ideological terms do these classes or groups perceive the problem of soil erosion — causes , blame , solutions ? |
| 21 | If you find yourself as a group leader or chairman accept the responsibility . |
| 22 | The old order changeth , and how — back at the end of the 1970s , Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born : for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition — but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday , what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but ‘ Intel processing ’ . |
| 23 | S & N dropped the bid . |
| 24 | S & N bought the right to make and sell Nivea in Commonwealth countries for a minimal sum in 1950 . |
| 25 | A timer or programmer to control the heating periods and the choice of water heating , space heating or both . |
| 26 | But he shoved them aside like inconsiderate pushers-in at a concert , and went on listening to Izzie playing her pipe or Lucie speaking the verses . |
| 27 | This change is functional for the stability of monopoly capitalism because the pseudo-democracy of direct voting by a mass electorate for leaders or policies increases the legitimacy of the political system , allows the mass of citizens to be co-opted into compliance , and poses no real risk of losing control over key state decisions to the masses . |
| 28 | If you use both hands on the boom to run through the shallows it will only need an awkward gust or wave to rip the sail from your grasp . |
| 29 | For those who argue that the 1925 legislation represents a series of reforms in order to facilitate conveyancing the foundation of the legislation lies in s. 1 , Law of Property Act , where Parliament reduced the number of estates and interests capable of existing at law : |
| 30 | The danger of the approach is that it allows the courts to intervene even where Parliament intended the tribunal 's decision to be final . |