Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tomahawk can not change course , choose alternative targets , fight off opposition or bring back pictures of the damage done . |
| 2 | She would even extend her fancy into the shops she visited , seeing them as markets where she could choose a fish by the brightness of its eye , a chicken by its stiff yellow claws and plump breast , or pick out tangerines with the leaves still on them . |
| 3 | Or tearing down part of the prison ? |
| 4 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 5 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 6 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 7 | It is postulated , however , that the remedies may key into the body 's basic metabolism , possibly harmonizing immune reactions or smoothing out difficulties in the basic mechanisms controlling body function . |
| 8 | Once a bankruptcy order is made , it is likely that the proceedings commenced by a Government department in the High Court under r 6.9(1) ( o ) will be transferred to the appropriate county court if the debtor does not reside or carry on business within the London insolvency district . |
| 9 | However , where a defendant does not reside or carry on business within the district of the court and he desires the action to be transferred to the court for the district in which he resides or carries on business , he may , after delivering a defence , counterclaim , or request for time for payment , apply ex parte in writing for an order to transfer the action to that court . |
| 10 | If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 11 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 12 | At home she 'd be doing a bit of shopping , gardening perhaps , or turning down invitations to the over-sixties whist drive . |
| 13 | Have a look in your local haberdashery or DIY store or find out details of the complete range of Velcro fastenings by writing to : . |
| 14 | Your partner should be lying down on his or her back with a cushion or rolled up towel under the knees to prevent any strain in the lumbar region . |
| 15 | Skip the chat if you prefer to bomb on catamarans , zoom in Lasers , potter on Toppers or totter off Windsurfers in the local area . |
| 16 | TAGH did not compete with binding of labelled EGF , or start down regulation of the EGF receptor on the isolated cells ( Table V ) . |
| 17 | I wished I could turn to stone , or put down roots like the spotted laurel and forever let the adjusting wind tweak and fiddle with my clothes to no purpose . |
| 18 | The educational role usually amounted to freeing the teacher from mundane classroom activities or carrying out instruction under the teacher 's guidance , whereas the para-professional role involved helping with physiotherapy and speech therapy exercises . |
| 19 | The transfer may become null and void , as here , or the certificate may not be renewed , as in Miller , but nothing that can happen to the transfer or transferee will ever revive the right of a man who , ex hypothesi , has removed or yielded up possession of the premises to which the certificate relates . " |
| 20 | If you wish to get married in a church which is not in either parish , you will have to apply to be put on the electoral roll or take up residence in the parish for the period over which the banns will be read . |
| 21 | And a Scottish Partner Centre has also been set up to attract companies that are interested in either expanding or setting up headquarters in the region . |
| 22 | It also rejected worship of the saints and relics , pilgrimages , indulgences , and masses for the dead as futile attempts to purge the sins of the deceased or pile up merit for the living . |
| 23 | If we can understand the cellular forces that bring about changes in the shape of the embryo then we can begin to ask further questions . |
| 24 | So do the conventions that make up rules of the road . |
| 25 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 26 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 27 | As we pointed out at the beginning of this campaign , the Labour Party proposes nothing less than to pull up Britain by the roots . |
| 28 | No I do n't think there were , there might have been one or two , yes I do know one that used to make some form of er something for the saddlery trade and you know those houses opposite the alms houses in Road , there are some alms houses on the one side , then there 's some houses that lie up steps on the other side of the road if they 're still there . |
| 29 | There are many plants that give off scent during the day but which seem to take on fresh strength in the evenings . |
| 30 | If pine comes mean no more to you than the pretty seed carriers that litter out countryside in the autumn , think again . |