Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke said that there were two possible courses — to increase the endowment and/or to increase the annual subscription . |
| 2 | easy as riding a bike or walking the sea . |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) The Bank may , on an application duly made in accordance with section 8 above and after being provided with all such information , documents and reports as it may require under that section , grant or refuse the application . |
| 4 | The usual approach of the courts is to examine whether any confidential information exists , whether it is protected by an express or implied term and , subject to arguments as to the balance of convenience , grant or refuse the injunction sought . |
| 5 | The East Coast Puritans refused to alter their garb or touch the native food . |
| 6 | Indeed , many executives harbor misconceptions , believing it is merely a matter of adding extra engineering and design personnel or introducing the latest computer-aided design ( CAD ) technology . |
| 7 | * Use the present tense for describing the content of a text or narrating the story . |
| 8 | Some rejected entirely any talk of self-government or treating the Ukrainians as an oppressed people . |
| 9 | The NMA leadership and many rank-and-file members became increasingly disenchanted with MFGB strategy during the 1920 national miners ' strike and the 1921 lockout , and less than a third of Nottinghamshire miners bothered to vote in a 1921 ballot on whether to accept the offered settlement or continue the dispute ( Griffin , 1962 , p.91 , p.102 ) . |
| 10 | Do n't waste time trying to gather possessions or save the goldfish — fire spreads very quickly . |
| 11 | Er at least thirty percent of my business erm have either stopped their accounts or reached the limit of their patience . |
| 12 | To find out more , telephone 01– and ask for a copy of our 1989 Report and Accounts or send the coupon below : |
| 13 | By this time , however , the military crisis was over , and Henry abruptly demanded that Anselm should either comply with his wishes or leave the country . |
| 14 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 15 | To submit any DC , DC operations privilege is required and so you should either ask your LIFESPAN Manager for this privilege or pass the DC to a suitable user with this privilege , using LIFESPAN option 2.5.0 . |
| 16 | He 's already lost the sight of his left eye because cocaine starved the retina of blood , and he 's damn lucky not to be totally blind , or even dead , because the next time it could constrict the arteries of his heart or block the blood from reaching his brain . |
| 17 | This limitation forces the investor to accept the level of market risk and the only ways in which this can be avoided are to select defensive ( low beta ) securities or to move out of the equities market into alternative investments or to reduce the market influence by combining equities with the risk-free asset . |
| 18 | It is tempting to say that they have no function besides advancing the story or embellishing the characters , no value outside their immediate context . |
| 19 | Both the county and the city councils are to ask the Government to either meet the full costs of the 7.5pc rise or lift the authorities ' charge-capping limits . |
| 20 | I understand the Gulf Trust 's anxiety , but I think they have not really focused on this case or heard the reasonableness of advanced payments . ’ |
| 21 | Similarly , early reproduction may impair survival or future fertility , by consuming resources , causing somatic damage or exposing the organism to environmental injury : there is a ‘ cost of reproduction ’ . |
| 22 | On the night of April 27/28 , 1942 , a force of 31 Halifaxes from 10 , 35 and 76 Squadrons and 12 Lancasters from 44 and 97 Squadrons flew up Faetten Fjord in a desperate attempt to inflict damage or sink the Tirpitz . |
| 23 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 24 | Conversely , the Commission is given wide powers to deal with those who fail to notify mergers or to provide the information demanded of them or who implement mergers in contravention of an obligation to suspend . |
| 25 | No , they must have , I caught a dog fight or shoot the windscreen ! |
| 26 | For he has this grace , that he is happy to eat fish fingers or Chinese takeaway or to cook the supper himself . |
| 27 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 28 | The military consists of the armed forces ( land , sea and air ) whose primary function is to defend the state against external enemies or to enforce the will of the state against other states . |
| 29 | The agreement usually provides that if necessary consents have not been obtained , the contract or asset will not be transferred to the acquirer but the acquirer will perform the contract or enter the property ( subject to the terms of the lease ) as the agent of the offeree . |
| 30 | If you want to protect your livelihood or protect the environment you 're living in , you 'd do everything possible to make sure it 's not damaged by this way or any other means . ’ |