Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony Scrivener referred to the Bill as unique in jurisprudence because a defendant can be guilty of the aggravated offence even though he does no other act than commit the basic offence , and the event which makes the crime aggravated is outside his or her control . |
| 2 | Overall , the evidence suggests that schools are more likely to increase than reduce the share of the budget devoted to support personnel . |
| 3 | Both types of survey show a far higher figure for crimes committed than do the official statistics produced by the police . |
| 4 | Sympathetic typifications of Catholics do little to lessen the obvious problem of being attacked while walking the beat . |
| 5 | They ran out of money , and they 've had to be supplemented since to get the job finished . |
| 6 | Dundee himself was fatally wounded while leading the final victorious charge , thereby becoming a legend , one of 600 casualties among the Jacobites . |
| 7 | More than 20 journalists were killed or wounded while covering the horrific conflict between the Serbian and Croatian republics , according to the 1991 World Press Freedom Review . |
| 8 | A similar problem was also found with sentence 13 , whereas sentence 12 crashed while printing the bracketed parses . |
| 9 | Work in the vineyards continued , with women and children dying while servicing the vineyards that the soldiers on both sides manipulated for their own strategic purposes . |
| 10 | These foods are strictly forbidden whilst following the diet . |
| 11 | Charlemagne 's baggage train is attacked whilst crossing the Alps on one of his campaigns . |
| 12 | Tunisia faces a major challenge in meeting the country 's water needs whilst preventing the destruction of wetland ecosystems . |
| 13 | If any message other than mentioned above appear whilst running the procedure the New OED Computer Group Manager , or his appointed deputy , should be informed . |
| 14 | that he 's wanted to know whether to destroy the negatives and things does he , yes ? |
| 15 | Although Blake did n't know whether to believe the Doctor , he walked with the Time Lord , following the hideous apparitions through the streets of Whitechapel . |
| 16 | Sefton council will consider whether to sanction the operation . |
| 17 | If the child is in police protection the authority should consider whether to ask the police to apply for an EPO on its behalf ( s47(3) ( c ) and see Chapter 13 , 1(d) ) . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , it was a serious defect in the summing-up to omit a direction on the burden of proof : but the omission was not necessarily fatal to the conviction and the court could properly consider whether to apply the proviso to section 2 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : Donoghue ( 1988 ) 86 Cr.App.R. 267 , 272 per Watkins L.J. , distinguishing Edwards ( 1983 ) 77 Cr.App.R. 5 ( where the omission was as to a direction on the standard of proof ) . |
| 19 | Cleveland police committee will discuss whether to support the schemes tomorrow . |
| 20 | Thus where the buyer commits an anticipatory repudiation which the seller fails to accept as terminating the contract , the seller will be liable if he himself subsequently fails to perform the contract . |
| 21 | My proposal will , I know , appear as selling the pass , to traditionalist teachers of English Literature , and perhaps upset them , which I am sorry for . |
| 22 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 23 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 24 | However , the chairwoman of the Scottish Labour Party , Johann Lamont , ruled out support for a Scottish parliamentary council and was heckled when criticising the SNP 's action in voting with the Government last week . |
| 25 | Okay so they 're a few options to try as regards the coding |
| 26 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 27 | All the above types of violation of a person 's autonomy involve what Kant described as treating the person as a means to someone else 's end , and not as an end in themselves . |
| 28 | In response to the coup the Prime Minster , Alfonso de los Heros Perez Alba , immediately resigned as did the Attorney General , Pedro Méndez Jurado , who was replaced by Hugo Ernesto Denegri Cornejo . |
| 29 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 30 | The single most difficult thing I found when using the Grafpad was to remember whether I was drawing on the screen or mapping the attributes . |