Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But critics say unless attitudes to the illness change , people like Alexander Byrne will continue to die . |
| 2 | The floor was one huge mound of twitching corpses , over which rank after rank of the creatures advanced . |
| 3 | That may explain why , although 10 Scottish Liberal Members of Parliament appear as sponsors on the face of the Bill , only three have managed to turn up today . |
| 4 | From such a perspective girls frequently appear as victims of the sexism in education apparent to others ( Brah and Deem , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | There are still those who argue that only physically measurable concepts count as science in the scientific study of human beings , as in all other scientific studies . |
| 6 | Shareholders of the Dart Valley Railway have seen the value of their shares drop since publication of the accounts . |
| 7 | The lawyers should explain to the management team the conflicts of interest they face as members of the selling team as well as members of the buying team . |
| 8 | Ruined churches still stand as testaments to the women and children burnt alive in them during those years . |
| 9 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 10 | Similarly the National Portrait Gallery , which was permanently established in 1896 , and the Dictionary of National Biography ( 18851990 ) stand as counterparts at the level of individual portrayal and biography , to the work of categorization and charting that went into producing monumental works on the national history , language , and literature such as the Cambridge History of English Literature ( 1907–16 ) and the New ( later Oxford ) English Dictionary ( 1884–1928 ) . |
| 11 | FOUR puzzles stand as bouncers against the idea that corporate finance has descended into the gambling den . |
| 12 | Of course , experts do tend to have their personal biases and the researchers must be cautious about what they accept as information from the people they interview . |
| 13 | Lord Wilberforce considered ( at pp986 and 987 ) that there were two possible interpretations to the section : The first is to regard it as having a limited effect ; to be directed against persons who transfer assets abroad ; who by means of such transfers avoid tax , and who yet manage when resident in the United Kingdom to obtain or to be in a position to obtain benefits from those assets . |
| 14 | Copies also hang as decoration on the walls of the Alexander Wilson Suite in the Town Hall , and within the carpet and bird motif , copied from one of the drawings is a major feature of the striking border that surrounds the newly decorated reception room . |
| 15 | I should just like to point out , as a practising Catholic and member of Amnesty , that the ‘ Church ’ to which we refer when speaking of the Catholic Church is the whole ‘ people of God ’ and not just the Pope , Cardinal Ratzinger or other members of the hierarchy . |
| 16 | Continental observers see it as significant that Britain will take the EC helm when disillusionment with the goals of a federalist Europe is sweeping voters in some countries seen as most pro-European . |
| 17 | Exercises : students decide if statements about the passage are true or false ; in small groups , they list , discuss , and tell each other what the woman will be doing tomorrow , and what she will have done by 5.30 ; they then discuss the woman 's feelings and decide what advice they would give her . |
| 18 | er , progressing through the years I doubt whether samples of the child 's work are kept officially in any other form or anywhere else |
| 19 | In response to what they characterise as changes in the market , Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , and SynOptics Communications Inc , Santa Clara , have adjusted their plans for joint development effort on RubSystem , which was to have combined their hub and router technologies into one high end hardware chassis . |
| 20 | In Seager v Copydex Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 923 it was adopted by Lord Denning MR who added the following point concerning the difficulties which arise where part of the information disclosed to the defendant is only partly within the public domain : When the information is mixed , being partly public and partly private , then the recipient must take special care to use only the material which is in the public domain . |
| 21 | And I think until reviews of the standards of fire cover are applied on a uniform basis across the country , the more uniform basis than they currently are , then the figures will always be the problem . |
| 22 | They arise as invaginations of the body-wall between adjacent sclerites , or at the edge of a sclerite or segment . |
| 23 | In Pieris , for example , during the 4th larval instar a series of tracheoles arise as proliferations of the epithelium of the large tracheae associated with the wing-bud . |
| 24 | The Posterior Arms of the Tentorium — These apodemes arise as ingrowths from the ventral ends of the postoccipital sulci , generally in close relation with the occipital foramen . |
| 25 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 26 | The policies of the Liberal Democrats who sit as councillors on the Oxford City and County Councils are well known and set out in our elections leaflets . |
| 27 | First , they can not ( by a provision of the constitution ) sit as members of the Congress and therefore they lack the direct access that is available to the British Cabinet . |
| 28 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 29 | 212 ) , and submitted that when High Court judges sit as visitors to the Inns of Court on disciplinary appeals they were merely acting as the final tier in the same disciplinary process . |
| 30 | It was common ground that when High Court judges sit as visitors to the Inns of Court they are not sitting as a court of law : In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1970 ] 1 Q.B . |