Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Some committee , board and panel chairmen acquired a reputation for being especially rigorous , and in some cases angry responses from institutions focussed on the alleged biases or eccentricities of panel members as much as on the nature of the judgments made about the courses .
2 Respondents usually hold a very clear understanding of the judgments indicated by the verbal labels as , for example , in the ‘ warm-clinical ’ construct previously mentioned .
3 The porter pointed to the name printed in the top left-hand corner .
4 He glanced down one passage to no avail , then tried the next , just soon enough to catch the porter emerging from the third door along .
5 Among the activities planned for the evening are continuous guided tours of the exhibition Dynasty : The Royal House of Stewart , an introduction to the Scottish Photography Archive with with a chance to view the current display , and an historic overview of the Queen Street building given by .
6 A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules .
7 So the idea of the student as an embryonic researcher turns out to be a metaphor referring , at its best , to just some of the activities employed by the student .
8 Good marketing should permeate all the activities undertaken within the school .
9 Many of the activities undertaken by the partnership can be provided by a school without using this form of organisation .
10 The proportion allocated , it says , reflects an assessment of the activities undertaken by the manager in pursuit of the company 's investment objectives .
11 Under the FSA , investment business means the business of engaging in one or more of the activities specified in the Act in relation to the investments specified in the Act , as long as these activities are not excluded .
12 Two types of behaviour , diet and exercise , dominated the activities proposed as the health promoting behaviour in which older people participated in ( Table 6.6 ) .
13 Having identified the activities associated with the sub-systems , it was then possible to start considering what information was relevant to the performance of each activity .
14 This was the contention that the court ought not to entertain the action ‘ because to do so would be detrimental to national security ’ , the defence referring to the long-established practice of Secretaries of State not to disclose or discuss the existence of a warrant .
15 Rocastle was the only player who was up by the halfway line when we broke away , all too frequently and any long punt by the defence fell to the feet of Blackburn players .
16 In intentional torts the defence operates in the form of consent .
17 The defence contained in the proviso applies only to a contravention of subs .
18 Can I also add that it will also instigate centrally determined policing policies , very much akin to other government policies , particularly economic policies which have , as yet , done nothing to address the underlying causes of crime and there are fears and I 'm quoting here from the er the response made by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities , the Association of County Councils and the Association of District Councils that it could lead to a national Police force .
19 She is also happy with the response gained from the local people of Barton Street .
20 The graph on the right reveals that the response depends on the escape .
21 Without this element , there would be no way of excluding planned revenge killings , and the argument is that they should be excluded from the defence because a person who plans a response to an affront or a wrong ought to ensure that the response conforms with the law .
22 Thus in the former situation the stimulus is received and the response initiated by the same hemisphere ( direct or uncrossed reaction ) .
23 All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training .
24 The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction .
25 If you put a spot of light right in the centre of this cell 's receptive field you get the response shown in the second column : when the spot goes on ( see stimulus trace at the bottom ) you get a burst of impulses , so it is called an ‘ on-centre unit ’ .
26 Whole strata of the British middle classes lived on the income received in the form of interest and dividends from such investments .
27 It is quite feasible that band members will have contributed to the composition of songs in different amounts , so the income received from the band 's songs is often split to reflect this .
28 It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee .
29 With regard to UK source income it was accepted , because the income arose in the United Kingdom , that the trust was liable to tax at the basic rate and the additional 10 per cent rate ( p474(h) ) .
30 Assume that the income generated in the trust by the £100,000 would have been , say , £10,000 and that therefore X , a 40 per cent taxpayer , would have received £6,000 after income tax .
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