Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | An application for planning permission to carry out development at the above-mentioned site has been received . |
| 3 | A number of institutions were invited to tender for the contract to carry out research into the needs of the European manager . |
| 4 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 7 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 8 | Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The central action revolves around persons of the same sex and figures of speech having the same gender reference as they themselves . |
| 14 | So it was no skin off my nose , it was no big deal to shut up shop in the middle of the day . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Last year the Automobile Association took over operation of the scheme , which puts police in touch with local duty solicitors . |
| 18 | Last year the Automobile Association took over operation of the scheme , which puts police in touch with local duty solicitors . |
| 19 | a change in the departmental structure creating giant super-ministries such as Department of the Environment and the Department of Trade and Industry to suck back decision-taking from the centre ; and the establishment of business-like organizations , such as the Property Services Agency and the Procurement Executive , to secure the better management of large blocks of Whitehall work ; |
| 20 | This appeared to be an attempt to stake out territory in the run-up to Bosnia 's likely recognition by the EC as an independent state . |
| 21 | Indeed it could be argued that the AHA , and the North East District within it , was simply an efficient administration carrying out orders from the top . |
| 22 | There had been a determined attempt to root out abuses among the clergy and to raise their intellectual calibre . |
| 23 | Open account : Under this payment method the exporter gives up control of the goods to the importer and receives debt settlement at a later date under the contract 's terms . |
| 24 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 25 | Suffolk County Schools under-19 A side take on Sussex in the semi-finals of the Corinthian Casuals Cup at Diss FC tonight ( ko 7pm ) . |
| 26 | His Portsmouth side take on Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 27 | Tomorrow at Christchurch sports ground Oxfordshire County Cricket Association take on Warwickshire in the final of the National Cricket Association 's County Championship . |
| 28 | This leads the non-violent professor to take up arms against the thugs to protect his home . |
| 29 | Daak could make deep incisions in places round the edge , but he did n't have enough leverage to cut off slices of the strange metal . |
| 30 | IBM and Hewlett-Packard aim in the medium term to hand over work from the Initiative to an FC/Open consortium . |