Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 2 | Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities . |
| 3 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 4 | They discovered that the first-order autocorrelation of the mispricing series was 0.93 , indicating that mispricings tended to persist over periods of the order of a few hours . |
| 5 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 6 | Each of us was encouraged to try out solutions on the board and you would ask other class members what they thought and whether they had anything to contribute as an alternative . |
| 7 | ( In fact , if you want to work out calories on the odd day you will need to have even more detail than this : you will need to weigh out quantities of food , including things like butter , you should note the make of chocolate biscuit , and so on . ) |
| 8 | However Mr Stevens ' visit to Belfast and his trip to see Nelson has prompted speculation that he was asked by Sir Hugh to go over details of the Finucane murder again with Nelson in case something was overlooked in the original investigation . |
| 9 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 10 | A NEW TV detective will use breaks between programmes to embark on his first case — to track down investors in the latest sale of BT shares to the public . |
| 11 | Moreover , candidates for election form parties : the purpose of a party is to win an election , or , in Qaddafi 's words , ‘ to rule over non-members of the party ’ ( chapter I , ‘ The party ’ ) . |
| 12 | In the event , however , Shamir 's meeting with Bush in Washington on Dec. 12 was friendly and , according to the Financial Times of Dec. 12 , " appeared to smooth over relations between the two leaders " . |
| 13 | At the same time , there are reports that workers ' militias had been used to cordon off streets during the demonstration in Leipzig on Monday night when some 10,000 people marched through the streets chanting ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and calling for the legalisation of the opposition group New Forum . |
| 14 | Before his birthday the trustees paid off all of his considerable personal debts , so that he could start afresh , but the Earl was not impressed by their suggestions that thrift was required and as soon as he took control he began to sell off parcels of the ancient family lands , all to finance his expensive tastes . |
| 15 | Each would require a portable bedstead , an air mattress and a pillow ; they would take some Oxley 's essence of ginger , some good opium , quinine and Seidlitz powders ; a portable inkstand , a match-box and supply of German tinder ; umbrellas against the sun and flannel belts to ward off cramps of the stomach during the night . |
| 16 | She found herself next to Petion , who was trying to pick off men on the nearest freighter . |
| 17 | The general policy is to set off overpayments in the manner that is most advantageous to the taxpayer . |
| 18 | And I often see her walking past with the children on the way to pick up others from the school . |
| 19 | The forceplate is sensitive enough to pick up forces from the heartbeat of someone standing on it , and robust enough to measure up to five tons of horse trotting past . |
| 20 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 21 | jobs , maybe a good eye to pick up faults in the pattern and that but as for you have to be clever I think it 's senseless . |
| 22 | This is to pick up changes in the cells on the cervix ( neck of the womb ) which might in time go on to become cancer . |
| 23 | ARABLE farmers seeking to optimise returns from their crops will be able to pick up tips at the two-day Cereal ‘ 93 National Cereals and Combinable Crops Event , which gets under way tomorrow . |
| 24 | First it 'll stop off at Brize Norton to pick up supplies for the Tornadoes operating the air exclusion zone . |
| 25 | Republicans are likely to pick up seats in the House , so he might have more leverage there , but this will be counter-balanced by the probable increase in the number of Democratic seats in the Senate . |
| 26 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 27 | The Swindon and District bus Company was back to pick up children from the Kingsdown Comprehensive School at Stratton St Margaret today … including twelve year old Louise Fletcher . |
| 28 | Even after Khrushchev announced , at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1956 , that the Soviet Union had abandoned its strictly bipolar view of the world and was ready to open up relations with the developing nations , there was little change in Moscow 's attitude towards Latin America , which had recently been ‘ vindicated ’ by US covert involvement in the 1954 overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala . |
| 29 | Example 2:16 Exceptions and reservations Excepting and reserving to the landlord : ( 1 ) Easement rights and privileges over the demised property corresponding to those expressly granted to the tenant over the other parts of the building ( 2 ) The right to build on develop deal with use any adjoining or neighbouring property retained by the landlord in such manner as he thinks fit even though the amenity of the demised property or the access of light or air thereto may be lessened thereby and without making any compensation to the tenant ( 3 ) The right at reasonable times and on reasonable notice ( except in emergency ) to enter the demised property for the purposes of ( i ) inspecting the condition and state of repair thereof ; ( ii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) for which the landlord or the tenant is liable under this lease ( iii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) to any property adjoining the demised property or to any party structure sewer drain or other thing used by the tenant in common with others ( iv ) measuring testing or valuing the demised property ( including the right to take samples of materials and to open up parts of the demised property which would otherwise be inaccessible ) but making good any damage caused by such an entry ( 4 ) The right for the landlord and the other tenants of the building to pass through the demised property in case of fire or other emergency Example 2:17 Definition of service pipes ' " service pipe " means any pipe , drain , sewer , flue , duct , gutter , wire , cable , optic fibre , conduit , channel or other means of passage or transmission of water , soil , gas , air , smoke , electricity , light , information or other matter and all ancillary equipment or structures |
| 30 | It should begin to open up negotiations with the statutory services which come under the SAD umbrella to see what sort of progress should be made on this . |