Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts .
2 In his well-known ‘ boutades ’ against politicians Pétain appeared to fear no one ; to Poincaré he once remarked acidly that ‘ nobody was better placed than the President himself to be aware that France was neither led nor governed . ’
3 He will be missed although the contribution he has made will remain with us in the present form of N C V O , to which he very greatly contributed .
4 Neither the court nor a Chief Constable could compel an officer to do acts which can only lawfully be done if the officer himself with reasonable cause suspects that a breach of the peace has occurred or is imminently likely to occur .
5 A lot of the pain and loss is felt when the parent they have known and loved becomes so altered .
6 A WOMAN died and three others were injured when the car they were travelling in was involved in an accident on the access road to RAF Machrahanish , Campbeltown , yesterday .
7 She tested the water with her elbow , pushing the sleeve up , as she had done when the girl she was teasing was a baby , and then dipped the scoop into the cauldron and ladled it into a bowl for Rosa to wash the dirt of the road off her toes .
8 Sometimes they are better equipped than the police itself and have good connections with the West .
9 This exemption can not be used if the client itself is an Authorised Person under the FSA .
10 The danger that a landowner 's heir would have to pay relief on succeeding to his estate , and , if a minor , would have to become a ward of the Crown , could be avoided if the landowner himself , during his lifetime , enfeoffed trustees with the lands , reserving to the ‘ use ’ of himself and his heirs the annual income .
11 Even when a new field seems overcrowded there is usually good business still to be had because the field itself expands under the pressure of the newcomers as they advertise to gain market share .
12 [ … ] The social efficiency decision rule , that the optimal quantity of a good is produced when the amount it adds to social benefits ( its marginal social benefit ) equals the amount it adds to social costs ( its marginal social cost ) is difficult to apply .
13 Berkeley wrote more fully in the Three Dialogues , but this work was unfortunately hardly better understood than the Principles itself .
14 Still , they were to be forgiven because the course they adopted , of ‘ setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society' seemed natural to them .
15 ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again .
16 Then in the spring of 1105 Anselm received a letter from the pope telling him that sentence of excommunication had been passed on Robert of Meulan and other royal counsellors , but that sentence on the king was delayed because the messengers whom the king ought to have sent to Rome before Easter had not arrived .
17 For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was .
18 But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring .
19 The series has become a bit of a cult in the UK , with Victor becoming much better known than the actor who plays him , Richard Wilson .
20 It 's not known if the patrol which spotted the stolen car was part of this operation .
21 It 's not known if the weapon he uses is real , but he could be dangerous .
22 He was hurt because the reputation he prized , perhaps most of all , of being an all-round expert on the farm would now be jeopardized : and when Walter Cater met the horseman he admired most in the district , as he did every Sunday morning , he was asked quite seriously : ‘ What !
23 THE Marquess of Blandford is expected to have his 112-day sentence for maintenance arrears reduced when the judge who imposed the term reconsiders the case today .
24 These years were also marked by judicial executions and forfeiture of lands on a scale unknown , perhaps , since the Conquest , and the relations between the crown and nobility for the rest of the century were to be influenced by these upheavals and by the precedent set when the king himself was deposed .
25 It can also be seen that the B II minima are more sharply defined than the B I state .
26 More unhappiness and depression is caused because the person who is suffering spends too much time regretting or resenting what has happened in the past or anticipating fearfully what may occur in the future .
27 Oppression can only be overcome when the producers themselves manage production , when workers and peasants exercise self-management .
28 I do n't think they 'll be any left once the generation who were born before the war see are gone .
29 The tricky part would come when they had to leave the straight track and turn down through a gate and a field , but magic never worked if the thing you had to do was too easy .
30 What would have happened if the man who had been traduced and vilified had been a village schoolmaster ?
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