Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy . |
| 2 | This legislation prohibits or restricts the exclusion of terms that would otherwise be implied in contracts of supply ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 3 | Information necessary to the decoding of a segment may lie outside the arbitrary boundaries imposed for the analysis of that segment , and some of the information within the boundaries may only be relevant to what precedes or follows the segment . |
| 4 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 5 | What we can take from this contemporary debate is the realisation that although research can assess the effectiveness of signing in schools , the change to Total Communication is generally based on attitude or commitment , which minimises or ignores the teacher variable . |
| 6 | Where objections are lodged , the sheriff hears parties on the application and objections , orders such inquiry as he thinks fit , and thereafter grants or refuses the order . |
| 7 | He ruled that placing advertising inserts in Mail Newspapers 's publications without the company 's authority or consent ‘ constitutes or involves the making of a misrepresentation ’ . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Any amounts by way of allowance payable by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above shall be payable by the council of the district or islands area whose area constitutes or includes the area of the licensing board . |
| 9 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 10 | It is said , therefore , that it directly causes or permits the nuisance to continue , as happened in Halsey 's case . |
| 11 | The college is taking on extra staff to make sure that anyone who visits or telephones the college can have a confidential chat with adult education experts every day next week . |
| 12 | If a prisoner has or knows the material which reaches the department , that is sufficient . |
| 13 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 14 | Vocabulary : thicker/thinner than — looks or feels the same/ different — longer/shorter than — wider/narrower than — heavier/lighter than — square — rectangle — triangle circle — round — straight — curved — larger/smaller than — more/ less than — more/fewer than — inside — outside — next to — under — above — all — some . |
| 15 | It is important to observe whether the stroked person accepts or rejects the stroke . |
| 16 | If in the exercise of his own capacity to do so he transfers or transmits the opportunity to B with the knowledge or assurance or expectation that the opportunity will consequently pass from B to C without any further act on A's part , he may be said to provide C with the opportunity indirectly . |
| 17 | The only way in which the discrimination between A and B can be enhanced is by some process that reduces the role of the c elements in producing generalization from A to B. It is not apparent that establishing associations between A and X and between B and Y will do this , even though X and Y themselves hold rather few ( z ) elements in common . |
| 18 | This is a process 114 The Computer-Based Design Process that enables the chief designer to communicate design concepts through to his team without taking up the role of a detail draughtsman , giving very effective utilization of design skills . |
| 19 | A hostile environment is one devoid of landscaping and planting — more often than not , it is the psychological effect that plants provide that creates the satisfactory working and living environment . |
| 20 | The vertical bar is a pipe command that passes the output of one command to another so the ECHO . |
| 21 | Quick Help for WordPerfect 5.1 from Microref is a TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) program that allows the user to access Help for WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS on two levels : Instant Help and Expanded Help . |
| 22 | At which point , a dimension is added that makes the experience as alarming as it will ever be . |
| 23 | A kung fu practitioner can adopt any pose that suits the situation . |
| 24 | It is the speed with which the situation develops that causes the problem . |
| 25 | The Americans think they constructed the canal — and the lasting folk memory of that achievement in the United States provides much of the emotional underpinning that sustains the American anti-Noriega hysteria — but it was actually built by black workers from the Caribbean . |
| 26 | This operation involved cutting the main fibre tract that joins the two halves of the brain , the corpus callosum . |
| 27 | The coronation of Bel Shanaar marks the end of the war with Chaos and the start of the great period of rebuilding that sees the rise of Tiranoc to pre-eminence among the Elf realms . |
| 28 | The National Rifle Association , founded in 1871 , holds that honour and supports the natural and constitutional right of free men to keep and bear arms . |
| 29 | software for computer systems with disk drives which supervises and controls the running of programs . |
| 30 | In simple terms , the surgeon supervises and controls the robot from a computer terminal , using information that he receives from sensors at the tool-end of the robot , known as the end-effector . |