Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to the 12 months taken to draw up the amendments , he allowed a mere six weeks for the councils and people of the Borders to comprehend , communicate and respond to them . |
| 2 | Finally , do n't forget the value of such structural objects as walls , containers , raised beds or even large boulders sited to set off the plants . |
| 3 | A Swedish yacht helped pick up the survivors . |
| 4 | Huge gaps in provision of health care in the less profitable areas such as care of the elderly and people with psychological problems and learning difficulties will affect women disproportionately as patients and as carers forced to fill in the gaps . |
| 5 | The Labour party plans a vast and sprawling bureaucracy which will need not just county hall , but Battersea power station , to house the thousands of officials required to carry out the wishes of Labour 's public sector trade union paymasters . |
| 6 | The policy U-turn has been welcomed by local authorities , who claimed they did not have the resources needed to draw up the registers , and by building and property groups . |
| 7 | Despite all these considerations , Tito 's intransigence left Alexander with no option — as Harold Macmillan , present at the conference , later put it in his diary — but to give " instruction to the planners for a full appreciation of the forces required to throw out the Yugoslavs " , while referring the matter to " his two Governments " . |
| 8 | Were they still dressing or had the ADC forgotten to switch off the lights ? |
| 9 | Even so eccentric a character as D. V. Karakozov , who attempted to assassinate Alexander II in 1866 , had gained direct experience while serving as an assistant to one of the peace arbiters appointed to work out the details of the Emancipation settlement . |
| 10 | One hundred and seventy-five people is the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I could produce between us of the numbers required to carry out the functions of the new independent HMI . |
| 11 | Husband took off his blue-tinted glasses and polished them on a silk handkerchief chosen to pick up the colours of both his suit and his tie . |
| 12 | For the rest of that day , Charlotte felt she was at one remove from reality , viewing events through an invisible screen equipped to filter out the extremes of sensation . |
| 13 | It is almost always a lack of storage space , or the fact that the file is dynamic and so can not be loaded in a single operation , that prevents self-indexing , and not the time taken to carry out the calculations . |