Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than mix grass and flower seed before sowing , I raise seedlings of the flowering plants in trays . |
| 2 | I am 82 , and would like to see this argument settled before I pitch stumps on the Green Field . |
| 3 | I meet representatives of the civil service unions from time to time to discuss a range of issues . |
| 4 | I meet representatives of the National Farmers Union regularly to discuss a range of agricultural issues . |
| 5 | Still , taking it for what it is , I can report that it is on the whole satisfactorily performed , due mainly to the merits of the soloists : Barbara Schlick 's soprano rings out finely in the wonderful air with cello , ‘ What passion can not Music raise or quell ’ ( I give titles in the familiar English rather than the German used here , of course ) , and again in her paean of the organ , though in the final chorus the sense and the noble simplicity of the solo soprano in turn with the choir , a real piece of English eccentricity , somehow becomes merely odd in German . |
| 6 | I hear mutterings from the Conservative Back Benches to the effect that the Minister does return with good deals , but if one asked the British farmer , that is not the message that one would hear . |
| 7 | I hear steps up the wooden ladder . |
| 8 | mm , well , I visit ladies in the nineties and they 're called Emma and Alice and Amy and all these names that are being used for children now , but I do n't think you 'll ever get Fred , Sidney |
| 9 | In chapters 4 and 5 I expose defects in the crudest form of foundationalism , and in chapters 6 and 7 I argue that we have a more general reason to avoid any sort of foundationalism , a reason derived from considerations in the theory of meaning . |
| 10 | I think members of the Royal Family will be amused despite the reality of the situation . |
| 11 | The flat I share looks in the opposite direction to theirs , across the access road and the lawns to the old estate wall and the tall old trees rising on the ridge beyond . |
| 12 | I enclose photocopies of the relevant pages of the proposal , copies of the whole document will be supplied on request . |
| 13 | I enclose samples of the last two cards we have produced . |
| 14 | I enclose samples of the last two cards we have produced . |
| 15 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 16 | Nelson wrote ‘ I have applications from the different line of battle ships for surveys on most of their sails and running rigging which can not be complied with as there is neither cordage nor sails to replace the unserviceable stores and therefore the evil must be combated in the best manner possible . ’ |
| 17 | We will continue our Estate Action and Housing Action Trust programmes which concentrate resources on the worst council estates . |
| 18 | In order to obtain more information about those RNA polymerase subunits which make contacts in the -40 region , we also carried out protein-DNA crosslinking experiments with both enzymes , using a UV laser ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 19 | There are also individual bureaux which develop extensions to the minimum national demands of enquiry classification . |
| 20 | This committee considered the factors influencing the age at which pupils left ‘ secondary schools which provide courses beyond the minimum school leaving age ’ — in practice , grammar schools . |
| 21 | Within each cluster there are some cells which receive inputs from the incoming nerves , some from which the outgoing nerves run , and others ( interneurons ) which connect inputs and outputs . |
| 22 | Of these , five were killed by coyotes , which catch ferrets in the open , and one was dug out and killed by a badger . |
| 23 | It is easy to show , as Miliband and others have done , that members of the capitalist class participate directly in the apparatus of the state , that the social origins of senior bureaucrats are those of the ruling class , and that there are many personal ties of influence , status and experience which link members of the ruling class with members of the state apparatus , especially the bureaucracy ( Miliband 1969 , pp. 48–68 ; Krislov 1974 ; Subramaniam 1967 ) . |
| 24 | Smacking , says Leach , will not help the toddler 's anger , frustration and fear , which create tantrums in the first place . |
| 25 | This is happening particularly to those publications which print stories on the Kurdish intifada . |
| 26 | On Nov. 23 the Italian Prime Minister , Giulio Andreotti , then president of the European Communities ( EC ) , and the Canadian Prime Minister , Brian Mulroney , signed a declaration in Rome which set relations between the two parties on a quasi-treaty footing providing for regular summit meetings and top-level ministerial consultations . |
| 27 | Although the subject received some coverage in the course of routine reporting on the war by journalists with access to the usual range of sources — specialist spokesmen in government information agencies , defence attaches in various embassies , the occasional interview on the field of battle — the main authorities are the specialized bodies which monitor developments in the strategic field , the international arms trade , and so on . |
| 28 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 29 | Roll argues that the empirical investigations of the CAPM which use proxies for the true market portfolio are really tests of the mean-variance efficiency of those proxies , not tests of the CAPM . |
| 30 | This concept has , however , been ruined by the introduction of a bar overhang with secondary lighting which obscure views of the back-bar display . |