Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The award guarantees that the candidate is competent in a significant range of work activities . |
| 2 | ‘ The story goes that the king was caught kissing one of the ladies-in-waiting of his English queen , Philippa of Lancaster . |
| 3 | However , the defence argued that the case was one of mistaken identity and that Rashid was in fact Mohammed Hamdan , an officer in the PLO 's Revolutionary Army . |
| 4 | LIFESPAN ABLE will ask the user to confirm that the facility is to be terminated and , if confirmed , will terminate with an appropriate message . |
| 5 | Within seconds , the vet announced that the lump was a large umbilical hernia which would need to be operated on , and that he should be castrated as these hernias are hereditary . |
| 6 | Except for cases of incurably ill pets , where owner and vet agree that euthanasia is best , the reasons given are as follows , in order of frequency : a ) The client wants the vet to agree that the animal is terminally ill/suffering/too old to treat . |
| 7 | Despite the referendum result , opponents of the change argued that the vote was only an opinion poll and had no legal force ; the original decision to name the city after Lenin having been taken by the USSR Supreme Soviet , they claimed , it could only be rescinded by its modern equivalent — the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 8 | The Scotsman understands that the deal is now unlikely to go ahead and a minority shareholder in Bank of Edinburgh , the Brighton-based Family Assurance Society , confirmed that there were difficulties . |
| 9 | The tribunal chairman ruled that the dismissal was because of ‘ a personality clash ’ between the two women and Mrs Taylor 's alleged misconduct . |
| 10 | Hugh Rance says his father , who 's the author of many best-selling books about cheese , would be heart broken if the shop were to close . |
| 11 | Privately , MPs with divided views on Mr Lawson 's chosen course agreed that the Government was effectively boxed-in to its position , and now had to tough it out . |
| 12 | Where a teacher feels this is likely to happen it becomes her responsibility to see that the danger is avoided . |
| 13 | All peers of Great Britain have retained entitlement to sit since the peerage was instituted in 1707 as have peers of the United Kingdom since 1801 . |
| 14 | Sometimes the volume quoted by the manufacturer is wrong by as much as 25 per cent , so press the salesman to confirm that the volume is at least 200 litres . |
| 15 | In Belgrade ( the Serbian as well as the federal capital ) tens of thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins held a vigil on Jan. 30-31 outside the Federal Assembly building to demand that the Army be sent into Kosovo and to protest against the stance of the Slovene and Croatian leaderships . |
| 16 | The columns of The Lancet suggest that the operation was performed , though it aroused fierce opposition , and was soon abandoned . |
| 17 | The vaginal scent also lets the male know whether the female is on heat , as does her urine . |
| 18 | Mr. Page began proceedings in the Queen 's Bench Division to establish that the university was not entitled to dismiss him . |
| 19 | If the letterhead was faked , surely , as he says , not only was the story fabricated but the application was fraudulent . |
| 20 | As we have mentioned , the efficient market hypothesis holds that the market is efficient , in the sense that share prices are determined in the light of all relevant publicly available information . |
| 21 | The story finishes when the ban was finally lifted in 1951 . |
| 22 | The drugs coverage underlined that the paper was shifting rapidly — if erratically — from its earlier goal of being a London community paper , or maybe that the community to which it was addressing itself had changed rapidly in the year since its birth . |
| 23 | There were two lawful ways to demolish the listed chapel — one was to have the building de-listed and the second was to obtain listed building consent for its total demolition which involved seeking representations from six conservation bodies . |
| 24 | The position of the bend influences the electrophoretic mobility of the protein-DNA complex with maximal retardation occurring when the bend is located at the middle of the fragment and a gradual reduction in retardation is seen for bends positioned at incremental positions towards the ends of the fragment ( 44,62 ) . |
| 25 | It was reported on Aug. 3 that the Supreme Court of New South Wales had awarded damages of A$2,850,000 ( US$2,224,500 ) to a teenage girl who had sued her mother for negligence committed whilst the girl was still a foetus . |
| 26 | A ‘ second look ’ capability to confirm that the arrhythmia is still present during device charging avoids unnecessary shocks for self-terminating arrhythmias . |
| 27 | By a respondent 's notice dated 25 January 1992 the defendant sought that the judgment be affirmed on the additional ground that she was a residential occupier within the meaning of section 27 of the Act of 1988 because her right to remain in occupation was controlled by the Rent Act 1977 so that she could not be evicted except by enforcement of the possession order by a bailiff executing a warrant for possession , whether or not her statutory tenancy had been terminated by the possession order . |
| 28 | The latter case was an action to recover taxes paid under duress and protest , the plaintiff contending that the levying statute was unconstitutional , and the defendant contending that the payment was voluntary . |
| 29 | If you are eventing rather than hunter trialling and the horse is standing in the horsebox between phases , he is likely to ‘ go off the boil ’ and although he should not require work as such , he will probably need a sharp canter and four or five practice jumps before he is ready to go . |
| 30 | A good illustration of this point is provided by a case in which the London Borough of Greenwich sought to challenge by judicial review the distribution by the Government of a leaflet explaining the poll tax : the Borough argued that the leaflet was inaccurate and , therefore , that its distribution was illegal . |