Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher running the course checked out materials in the library as part of her planning for the course . |
| 2 | BR has joined forces with 15 local authorities to carry out improvements to the trackside view on key routes . |
| 3 | The threat comes from plans to contract out services to the private sector . |
| 4 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 5 | An application for planning permission to carry out development at the above-mentioned site has been received . |
| 6 | To be more accurate , I had gained dispensation from the CAA to carry out test-flights for the renewal of a C of A and from the PFA for the test-flight programme of a new homebuilt aircraft . |
| 7 | LOCAL AUTHORITIES drawing up plans for the community care reforms will have to consult with the private and voluntary sector , the new Department of Health guidelines say . |
| 8 | A number of institutions were invited to tender for the contract to carry out research into the needs of the European manager . |
| 9 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 10 | A meeting at the end of the Summer term provides an opportunity to sum up progress over the year and to talk parents through school reports particularly in terms of National Curriculum attainment levels and programmes of study . |
| 11 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 12 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 13 | Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities . |
| 14 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 15 | After the elections next spring , Cambodia 's new government should take immediate steps to rein in development in the Angkor zone , and thereby preserve one of the landmarks of Eastern Medieval history . |
| 16 | Like Camdessus , Conable urged creditor nations to write off debt to the poorest nations [ see also p. 37731 for LDC conference in Paris ] and claimed that a 10 per cent cut in military spending by members of NATO would free enough resources to double development assistance . |
| 17 | ROGER Rance , owner of a turf supplier in Hemel Hempstead , has resorted to shock tactics to drum up business with the slogan Sod It heading his local newspaper advertisements . |
| 18 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 19 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 20 | Pores along the hairs filter out molecules of the right size and these are analysed . |
| 21 | With VAT on fuel bills scheduled for 1994 and 1995 , the strategy is beginning to shape up as one aimed at allowing the Conservatives to go for a tax-cutting Budget in 1996 or 1997 in an attempt to win back ground in the run-up to the election . |
| 22 | Both Watanjar and Patkin were leading Khalqis , a detail that was stressed by the government in an attempt to play down divisions within the party . |
| 23 | It was reported on Oct. 14 , 1989 , that the first attempt to bring together COMECON and EC officials in Moscow was effectively boycotted by the EC in an attempt to play down links between the two organizations in favour of developing bilateral relations . |
| 24 | For example , if there were a sudden selling of sterling ( due , say , to bad trade figures and a resulting fear that the pound would depreciate ) , the Bank of England could help to prevent the pound from falling by using reserves to buy up pounds on the foreign exchange market . |
| 25 | The central action revolves around persons of the same sex and figures of speech having the same gender reference as they themselves . |
| 26 | In Uzbekistan , President Islam Karimov stepped up pressure on the democratic and Islamic opposition and tightened border controls with Tajikistan . |
| 27 | So it was no skin off my nose , it was no big deal to shut up shop in the middle of the day . |
| 28 | But police do not think the arson attack was a deliberate attempt to put out lights in the town so that the looting could take place . |
| 29 | NWD snaps up 15% of the market , Hewlett-Packard and DEC have 17% apiece , IBM lags behind at 14% , while Network Computing Devices Inc leads the field with 25% . |
| 30 | Every £1 in extra revenue brought in 93p at the bottom line , said the board , with the new 7 per cent Government levy on sales the only deduction . |