Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Movements in US domestic-based banks ' prime lending rates influence the euro-dollar 's LIBOR , and the same applies to deposits and loans in other currencies .
2 The way in which changes in money supply influence the economy is a fiercely debated subject in macroeconomics .
3 The Sub-Committee examined the contribution which each proposal made to the Development Programme and the extend to which it met the Council 's stated objectives for Phase 2 Pilots .
4 So our grand scheme for utopianizing the world was settled in two scuffles .
5 The relevant months for forecasting the RPI are eight months prior to March and September , namely July and January .
6 HM Customs and Excise 's current method of forecasting the yield is to establish a relationship between aggregate yield and aggregate consumer expenditure , and project this forward given estimates of future consumer expenditure from the Treasury model .
7 ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’
8 The software also computes the depth that the article will take , space can be added for photographs if needed , and when everything fits the article is queued for printing .
9 Additionally , his failure to collect one of the top races — he remains without a win in the Champion Hurdle , Gold Cup and Grand National — have limited the stable 's earning potential .
10 The justification usually advanced is that the facts are rarely in dispute and that the judge who has witnessed the incident is the person best equipped to deal with it .
11 The liquidator 's objective in pursuing the appeal is clearly to maximise the sale price of the estate for the benefit of the bank .
12 The shopkeeper had not realised the boy was connected with her and immediately offered congratulations .
13 The ‘ runners ’ are carp that have realised the bait is suspicious and bolted off with it in fright .
14 He added that other vehicles were despatched when it was realised the press were in attendance and that other people in area might be there .
15 By the way , had you ever realised the name is Saxon by origin ?
16 She had n't even realised the thought was in her mind until this moment .
17 So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on .
18 A truly democratic government would have realised the populace was against the tax and abandoned it immediately .
19 Nevertheless in Guildford Rural District Council v Fortescue the court was not prepared to accept as a general proposition that mere intensity of user could never be relevant .
20 The powers allowing the construction are being dealt with already and , as I have said , King 's Cross will provide excellent access to London .
21 Once the firing was completed the clinker was broken out and carted away to be ground .
22 Once that is completed the Captain is joined by Corporal L for a planning conference on a forthcoming job of clearing some derelict houses of a suspect IED .
23 The idea , however , that the rebels aimed to kill the King is unlikely — not only did the rebels show a positive loyalty to him at Mile End and Smithfield , and adopt as a watchword ‘ King Richard and the True Commons ’ , but they made no attempt to take vengeance on him for the death of Wat Tyler , when he could have been at their mercy .
24 Almost all the coral which once surrounded Japan 's southern islands has been destroyed by pollution caused by soil erosion , and rising sea temperatures threaten to kill the world 's remaining blue coral .
25 ‘ Efter we get alang here a wee bit , ye come tae a loch , then roon' the bend is a castle , then we cairry oan up the road a bit till we cam tae anither loch … ’
26 The fact that the receiver of a gift hates the giver is commonplace : the gift does nothing to remove the material for envy ; on the contrary , the act of giving becomes both a justification for the envy and an additional ground for feeling it .
27 If British Naval Intelligence heard nothing from her , they 'd presume the Dane was hostile , and the raid would go ahead as planned .
28 In all humanities disciplines the computer is used in an endeavour to replace intuition with quantification .
29 Only inhabited for the past two hundred years , the unique flora and fauna of these delightfully unsophisticated island have been allowed to evolve undisturbed over the past 600 million years , yielding a unique heritage of birds and blooms encompassing the spectrum 's every colour .
30 If you listen to early Whitesnake records the bass is quite light in the mix , but it 's a very definite sound , and the strings had a lot to do with that .
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