Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of the tag strip eases the wiring to the ‘ fielders ’ and the p.c.b . |
| 2 | The tag system uses a little less space than the chaining system , as there is no need for a terminal ‘ link ’ field at the end of the chain . |
| 3 | The Defence Secretary remains unapologetic ; during an election visit to Swindon he claimed opposition defence policies would be an even harder bullett to bite . |
| 4 | The Defence Secretary has announced that the Royal dockyards at Devonport and Rosyth are to remain open . |
| 5 | The defence secretary has announced further cuts to Britain 's armed forces , including the cancellation of a nuclear missile system for the R A F. The decisions came as MPs warned that cuts the treasury are said to be seeking , would leave Britain unable to defend itself . |
| 6 | Hardly a week passes in which the Defence Campaign does not monitor incidents of harassment or malpractice by officers from Tottenham . |
| 7 | But for confirming the General Secretary 's position as Chairman , the full membership of the Defence Council has never been identified in open Soviet sources . |
| 8 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 9 | The defence issue has changed since the last election . |
| 10 | On the day of Baker 's arrival in Israel the Defence Ministry announces the release of as many as 1,300 Palestinians detained in connection with the intifada . |
| 11 | The Defence Ministry claims that the range would benefit wildlife as it would drive people away . |
| 12 | In particular , the subjectivist 's charge that the defence doctrine leads to the harsh objectivism of the reasonable man as a standard can be refuted by treating the reasonableness requirement as not being a second and subsequent question which must be answered in the affirmative in order to secure an acquittal , but as an integral part of the first question : Did the accused hold the belief he claims to have held ? |
| 13 | But under intense congressional pressure the Defence Department says that it will kill the programme next year unless the services manage to iron out serious flaws . |
| 14 | Cynics believe that the administration may have made a secret deal with Noriega , and some of the defence testimony seems to bear out this theory . |
| 15 | The demise of the defence jobs has added to the difficulties in my constituency , where many workers travel to Yarrow 's and to Barr and Stroud . |
| 16 | The message to be output then simply acquires a sign vocabulary , and the response buffer has speech and sign mixed . |
| 17 | The Response controller keeps an eye on its peripherals by constantly ‘ polling ’ them in sequence . |
| 18 | Since returns are still anticipated from most of the remaining 15 courses , the response rate has to be regarded as a preliminary indication of how well the survey worked using course organisers as distributors and collectors . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 20 | This provides that , where the trustees of a settlement include at least one who is not resident in the United Kingdom as well as at least one who is resident in the United Kingdom , then for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts : 1 . |
| 21 | There is nothing inconsistent with the Income Tax Acts in recognising and respecting the distinction between property owned by a person as trustee and property owned by him in his own right … |
| 22 | If and so long as the terms of any settlement are such that any person has power to pay or apply income or capital to or for the benefit of the settlor or his spouse , all income arising under the settlement shall be treated for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts as the income of the settlor for that year and not the income of any other person ( TA 1988 , s674 ; and see Blausten v IRC ( 1971 ) 47 TC 542 ( CA ) ) . |
| 23 | Once the income which is the property of the trust deed is to be deemed the income of Mr Astor ( that is , is to be treated for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts in all respects as if it were the property of Mr Astor ) , it automatically becomes impossible for the purposes of those Acts to say that he receives anything which springs from a right of action against the trustee in respect of his income . |
| 24 | The income tax ensures that the marginal value product of labour , society 's benefit from another hour of work , now exceeds the marginal value of the leisure being sacrificed in order to work . |
| 25 | When prices do change , however , the income statement becomes less acceptable as a measure of performance . |
| 26 | Similarly , including current cost accounts marks a shift towards an entity view because there the income statement shows the current cost profit after maintaining the operating capability of the business as a whole , as well as current cost profit attributable to shareholders . |
| 27 | Using LIFO in the income statement means that the older units remain in the inventory . |
| 28 | Evaluating the desirability of any change in the income distribution involves ‘ the ’ great unresolved question in economics , i.e. , How are income distributions to be compared and ranked ? |
| 29 | Overall , the bottom 60% of the income distribution has lost , while the top 30% — especially the top 10% — has gained … |
| 30 | Harmful quantities of radiation are also released both before and after the uranium fuel enters the power station . |