Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You seem to think that 1960s ' antitrust law enforcement was wonderful because the government ‘ took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . ’ |
| 2 | They are nonetheless a big comedown from the 1960s , when federal trustbusters took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . |
| 3 | If there is a serious departure from these laid down guidelines the auditor may refuse to accept that the accounts are a ’ true and fair view ’ of the financial affairs of the company and accordingly qualify the accounts to that effect . |
| 4 | One of the cages had a movable inner wall which could slide along rails the full length of the interior . |
| 5 | After a comprehensive introduction to the basics of Excel such as how to start the program , move around the worksheet and use the pull down menus the reader is gently introduced to more advanced functions . |
| 6 | Mr Major — salary £76,234 — hopes that with Ministers taking a lead in the bid to keep down wages the nation can be persuaded to swallow the bitter pill . |
| 7 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 8 | I could , to be sure , scribble off things the whole day long , but a composition of this kind goes out into the world , and naturally I do not want to have cause to be ashamed of my name on the title-page . |
| 9 | In many far off lands the Commission 's gardeners have no knowledge of the English language , while their supervisors are not fluent in the native tongue ; the result has been , so the Commission reports , that a form of hybrid speech has developed in certain countries that would be incomprehensible to other natives of the country and to ordinary English-speakers , but which is ‘ very eloquent ’ on matters relating to cemetery maintenance ! |
| 10 | Five years later , in Watch Out Kids the future It staffer Mick Farren noted that what he had seen there , that night , was more than a new rock ‘ n ’ roll show , it was ‘ the germ of a new way of life ’ . |
| 11 | Nip out side-shoots the moment they appear , to concentrate energy into the growing tip and fruit production . |
| 12 | Even though my time in Australia brings back memories the journey sticks in my mind like glue . |
| 13 | It 's her job to point out ways the system can be used to everyone 's advantage . |
| 14 | To Libby it seemed as though he was marking out boundaries the way she and George had done the winter it snowed ; making footsteps in the dense white stuff , indicating territories . |
| 15 | ‘ For to obviate the inconveniencies that might result from the too frequent communication with the out pupils the Professor will demonstrate to the latter only what might be useful to them as Surgeons and Physicians to the human body , such as the most important demonstrations of comparative anatomy as likewise experiences [ experiments ] on several animals , which could not be attempted on Man without imminent danger , and lastly , a comparison between epidemical and epizootic diseases — therefore the out pupils ought to be considered by the Society [ College ] as a separate Class : the consideration of which ought not to have any influence as to the situation of the establishments . |
| 16 | South Africa have set about things the right way however . |
| 17 | What appears to be a mortar explosion close by causes the column to get down on the flooded ground . |
| 18 | All those individuals who supported the adoption of the Second Choice above , were , unbeknown to themselves , bringing about events the effect of which could , many years later , be adjudged either good or evil or neutral in accordance with the rule proffered earlier , and therefore be available for incorporation as units of ‘ goodness ’ into the Created God . |