Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be plenty of time for the softhearted to recover back at the hotel . |
| 2 | ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires . |
| 3 | These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate . |
| 4 | News for the 1990s backed up by 60 years of authoritative reporting . |
| 5 | Indeed today in the High Court a petition is being presented for the compulsory winding up of the company . |
| 6 | Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Where the proceedings are in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) , it is a defence under s.94(4) to prove , on a balance of probabilities , ( the burden being on the defendant ) that the accumulation or deposit was necessary for the effectual carrying on of a business or manufacture , was not kept longer than necessary , and that best practicable means were used to prevent them from being prejudicial to health or a nuisance . |
| 8 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 9 | Insiders admit that by both external and internal measures , it has failed badly during the 1980s to live up to its promise . |
| 10 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) pointed out , we in Scotland know that the words of some irresponsible sectors of the tobacco industry during the 1980s turned out to be weasel words . |
| 11 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 12 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 13 | Spitting and spluttering , forcing his flailing hands and knees to get a grip on the earth and push him back upright , he heard the rushing creak of the rickshaw 's wheels and the patter of feet as the haulier sped off into the night . |
| 14 | The division of the Bohun inheritance produced bad blood between Thomas and Henry Bolingbroke , however , and the disagreement between the two rumbled on throughout Richard II 's reign . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the Soviet Union have good cause to be worried about the military build up of troops in Saudi Arabia . |
| 16 | ’ Have you heard about the big stink along in Information ? ’ |
| 17 | The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest . |
| 18 | This gleaming gold , buttery-sweet dessert wine is one of the best to come out of Romania . |
| 19 | He suggests that the sense of the aesthetic arises out of the extremely rapid and continuous focal comparisons of data made during perception . |
| 20 | Normally , the council has about 90pc of the 58,000 forms back by this time . |
| 21 | The crisis of the 1970s turned out to be a crisis of the model itself rather than just another conjunctural swing within its confines . |
| 22 | Earlier , other recruits of the 190 brought in by Timex were barracked as they drove through the lines in cars . |
| 23 | But early last year , when all three of the latter fell out of the running , Grachev 's way to the defence ministry was unopposed . |
| 24 | The elder of the two leaned down from the saddle to clap him amiably on the shoulder , and said a word or two in his ear , before they trotted away along the Foregate towards the Horse Fair . |
| 25 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |
| 26 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 27 | The great Merseyside Survey of the 1930s carried out from Liverpool University was mainly concerned with unemployment and poverty and , like many local social surveys carried out up and down the United Kingdom , sought to measure the incidence of certain social problems with a view to providing sound empirical data upon which local and central social policy could be based . |
| 28 | The accurate hitting of targets in September owes much to the decisions made as to whether or not to confirm offers to those who have not quite met the conditions , a process strongly influenced by estimates ( based on past experience ) of the likely take up by those that have . |
| 29 | Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water . |
| 30 | But by the time strands of sounds of the fair floated up from the park , people were beginning to get home , wash , relax and pick up again . |