Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he declined to strike out paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer or to make the alternative orders that were sought . |
| 2 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 3 | Whether he was meeting Wacko Jacko in LA or reviewing the latest Lurkers 45 , Baker had perspective . |
| 4 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |
| 5 | For example , in the case of BP , LASMO or Shell the expected changes in the price of crude oil can play an important part in determining market prices for options . |
| 6 | In the Fourth Duma ( 1912–17 ) the government showed little concern to defuse opposition or to exploit the deep divisions between its more moderate critics and the small minority of radical Left deputies . |
| 7 | The lessor is usually further protected by a proviso allowing him to re-enter and put an end to the lease in the event of the tenant 's failure to pay rent or observe the other covenants . |
| 8 | ‘ Because it gives us time to stall them , ’ Roquelaure came back sharply , ‘ until we track down that Arab cartel or locate the missing arms shipment . ’ |
| 9 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 10 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 11 | He was never recognised officially , principally because of the painful sincerity of songs that portray the lowest depths of spiritual and material Russia . |
| 12 | This is particularly so in the field of Scottish education , where folklore about having once been the best in the world has too easily fostered the delusion that restoring the old ways is the route to excellence . |
| 13 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 14 | And they will undoubtedly object to the more unbridled formulations that enter the three fictions ; the biography of Eliot has plenty to say on the subject , too , while maintaining a comparative , and suitable , reserve . |
| 15 | In addition , the International M&A Network has prepared further guidelines that address the particular circumstances of cross-border engagements ( see the handbook ) . |
| 16 | In addition , the International M&A network has prepared additional guidelines that address the particular circumstances of cross-border engagements ( contained in the UK handbook ) . |
| 17 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 18 | But they took no notice and jacked her out anyway , and the hospital was crammed with the odour of disinfectant and medicines and mechanical solidities that drove the pretty meanings away . |
| 19 | The marmosets were injected with tissue from the brain of a diseased cow in 1988 as part of a series of experiments to test whether the agent that causes the various forms of spongiform encephalopathy " such as BSE in cows and scrapie in sheep " can be transferred across species . |
| 20 | It is this uncertainty that makes the political leaders more than usually tentative in their predictions . |
| 21 | The manufacture of the books that fill the movable shelves was often fraught with technical problems . |
| 22 | We asked Volvo , famed for cars that outlast the hardiest perennials , to find a solution . |
| 23 | Repealers see the Wright amendment as another post-deregulation rule that helps the big airlines get bigger . |
| 24 | Remembering what Garvey had said about comforting the sick dame , Gabriel leapt to the end of the play and snatched at the only words that seemed the right ones for these poor corpses , these walking dead : |
| 25 | Visitors unencumbered by cars get an even better introduction by embarking at Glenfinnan on the small passenger boat that plies the seventeen miles of Loch Shiel and delivers them at Acharacle without effort on their part : an idyllic cruise . |
| 26 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 27 | The difficulty in finding such variables is in itself a measure of how internally divergent BV actually is , and it is striking that the variables that show the sharpest patterns of social variation are subsets within the larger sets . |
| 28 | the light that led The Holy Elders with the gift of myrrh . |
| 29 | The harnesses that supported the two Chelonians swung from side to side , knocking them against the sides of the tank . |
| 30 | This is precisely the condition that determines the critical frequencies of the prototype and so the critical frequencies of the m-derived and constant-k prototype sections are bound to be the same . |