Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore the appearance of Saruman to drive off the borrowed horses is coincidental with the arrival of Shadowfax — the note of joy in their whinnyings puzzles Legolas , though their eventual return with Shadowfax provides an equine equivalent for the unexpected return of Gandalf . |
| 2 | That the lion 's share fell to Florence rather than Siena , after a century and a half of medieval snatch and grab between the two republics is proclaimed by the splendid lions on the well and on the Marzocco column . |
| 3 | The fallacy that secondary impotence is to be expected as the male ages is probably more firmly entrenched in our culture than any other misapprehension . |
| 4 | Management 's efforts to devise new industrial relations strategies and styles appropriate for the changing circumstances are the subject of chapter 6 . |
| 5 | The phone numbers and addressed for the remaining divisions are listed below , should you be interested in other Olympus products . |
| 6 | The time taken to pass between the two points was recorded from the video for each junction and the number of vehicles visible in that period was also recorded . |
| 7 | " Walls built after the 1953 floods are getting old " , explained Peregrine . |
| 8 | The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction . |
| 9 | To explore possible reasons for the different kinds of error reported above the following calculations were made for each patient : total number of missing days , total number of retrospective completions , and total number of occasions on which a discrepancy occurred between written and electronic records . |
| 10 | The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured . |
| 11 | What lies within the published guidelines is very relevant to the actions taken by Orkney Islands Social Work Department . |
| 12 | One of the characteristics of many of the people who are drawn to work in the social services is a strong commitment to those services . |
| 13 | Lipids in general are not very antigenic erm er it 's interesting to note that lipid A , when it 's purified from the other components is almost totally responsible for the toxic amount of any property . |
| 14 | Many of the cases included in the two reports are now on the road to recovery . |
| 15 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 16 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their application to UCAS through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London listed in the UCAS handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania , Thailand . |
| 17 | Most of the poems Wordsworth contributed to the Lyrical Ballads were completed in an astonishing burst of creativity during the next few weeks , and drew their inspiration largely from his immediate surroundings at Holford and Alfoxden . |
| 18 | In this signal , AC/173 [ KP 70 ] , McCreery reported on the serious problems being posed by the Yugoslav presence in both areas . |
| 19 | You should be aware that the information relating to the individual properties is considerable . |
| 20 | ‘ The bad effects of island driving on the long sentences were not caused by an increase in the number of false alarm seeds . |
| 21 | Mr. Michael : In the light of the White Paper , what importance should the public in Wales now place on the 10-year plans being prepared by health authorities and considered by his Department ? |
| 22 | Below each speck , attacked by the unseen lines were the dark smudges of the personal life rafts that would hit the water seconds before their bodies . |
| 23 | Wages earned by the male children were from 2/ to 8/ a week . |
| 24 | Yet this ‘ floating value ’ might never have settled on their land , and obviously the aggregate of the values claimed by the individual owners is likely to be greatly in excess of a total valuation of all pieces of land . |
| 25 | Several petrochemical plants owned by the armed forces were also to be put up for sale . |
| 26 | Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport . |
| 27 | The only major Ottoman initiatives against the Karamanids in the years immediately before 822/1419 that are reported by the Turkish sources are two campaigns , apparently in successive years , in each of which the Ottomans defeated Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and attacked Konya . |
| 28 | Such a relationship can be described as structural , that whatever occurs between the above elements is controlled within the parameters of that structure . |
| 29 | Pilots who were selected for the early courses were from very varied backgrounds . |
| 30 | The base categories selected for the explanatory variables are old and poor , to try to avoid negative paths ; if we had used the young as the baseline , we would have certainly produced a negative effect of old age on preparedness to break the law , for example . |