Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonn is a handsome town but , far as it is from the historic centres of German power , it seems an odd choice for a capital , even allowing for the Allies ' post-war policy of de-centralisation . |
| 2 | There were even reports of material assistance being given to protesters by local officials , such as transport to demonstrations and financing for the protesters ' co-ordinating committees . |
| 3 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 4 | A number of board members are pressing for the directors ' new suites , now being readied at the top of a spanking new building on Washington 's H Street , to be exempted from the Bank-wide policy of no smoking that begins on July 1st . |
| 5 | They attack high-protein leaves , more acidic ones having less available protein , the optimum pH for the fungus ( pH 5 ) being reached when the material is mixed with the ants ' acidic faeces : then the fungus can break down the hydrolysable tannin/protein complexes . |
| 6 | The entrance was an inferno of petrol fires as flames flared and flickered across the water , sending a black column of heavy smoke mixed with the MLs ' white smoke-screens slowly rolling north-west on the still night air above the wrecked boats . |
| 7 | Some people saw this as an attempt to force the Allies ’ hand , provoking a premature initiation of the expected ground offensive which might then plunge into the Iraqis ' prepared defence in depth . |
| 8 | ARSENAL keeper David Seaman and midfielder David Hillier are fit to face Manchester United today after being substituted in the Gunners ' 3–0 crash at Leeds . |
| 9 | The silent war between the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders did not last long , for by 1748 the imprimatur had been dropped from the Upholders ' blank funeral invitations and we no longer hear from the United Company of Undertakers again . |
| 10 | The grossed up amount of the debt should therefore be included in the taxpayers ' total incomes for higher rate tax purposes . |
| 11 | I have argued that the limits of sovereignty are contained in the courts ' central commitment to representative democracy : a purported statute which attempted to subvert democracy could derive no legal authority from the doctrine . |
| 12 | The investors will also request that the managers warrant information contained in the accountants ' due diligence report . |
| 13 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 14 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
| 15 | The data relating to the patients ' dietary habits were collected after endoscopically confirmed ulcer healing in 985 patients to assess their habitual intake in relation to their normal physical activity , in the absence of active ulceration . |
| 16 | So far the exercise has been confined to the managers ' professional body , the Institute of Health Service Management ( IHSM ) . |
| 17 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 18 | In the event of a change in the standard terms applying to the Insurers ' usual forms of Household Buildings insurances the Society will be notified and this notice will be deemed to be sufficient notification in respect of all such policies as may be subject to this Agreement . |
| 19 | By Oct. 17 rioting had broken out as people protested at the authorities ' slow response . |
| 20 | His desire is for the crown , and the way he starts at the witches ' double prophecy shows that he already has it in mind . |
| 21 | Alfred Snr would have looked at the Quakers ' current predicament without much surprise . |
| 22 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 23 | However the voting might go in these circumstances there could be no PR of wet , damp and dry votes , because there would be no means of knowing how far these had been attracted by the candidates ' presumed wetness , dampness or dryness . |
| 24 | It was based on information from RAMM ( the Road Assessment and Management database ) , and the bridge inventory held by Transit NZ , supplemented by the valuers ' local knowledge and expertise , particularly in respect of depreciation . |
| 25 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 26 | For Newcastle , having built up a two-goal lead could have been caught by the Bees ' stirring comeback . |
| 27 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 28 | The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians ' far distant and antique cousin , the lungfish . |
| 29 | Derwentside 's Laura Jackson was selected for the girls ' 14–16 years 100m freestyle but had to withdraw through injury . |
| 30 | The parties of the centre-right coalition suffered substantial losses in nationwide local elections on Oct. 18 in what was widely seen as the voters ' initial verdict on the austerity measures . |