Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These designs can reveal people at play during a party as in Les Rendezvous or on an ice-rink as in Les Patineurs ; they present the conflicting or subtle moods arising from the tragedy of lost youth and hope during war-time , as in Gloria ; or they show how deep sorrow gradually changes into resignation and on to exaltation as in Requiem . |
| 2 | It was very easy to imagine eyes peering from the gloom , or strange beings creeping along the path behind them . |
| 3 | The deaths of casuals or sudden or accidental deaths occurring among the inmates had to be reported by him to the Minister within twenty-four hours , and he had ‘ forthwith ’ to inform the master of every case of serious or dangerous illness in the institution . |
| 4 | Since the shell grows at the margins , a ribbed shell is produced , with fine or coarse ribs according to the species . |
| 5 | ‘ Out of every five or six guys going for the wave , three are bluffing . ’ |
| 6 | Are there any legal or ethical problems arising from the depicted scene ? |
| 7 | These curious drum-shaped clay objects characteristically have two perforations on one side and two or three stalks rising from the top . |
| 8 | A vehicle was heard in the alleyway , followed by the footsteps of either two or three men walking past the open door . |
| 9 | We 'll have Anne tied up in the libraries for two or three days going through the periodical indexes , that 'll be another hundred plus whatever the xerox charges are . ’ |
| 10 | These latter occasions give rise to highly acidic precipitation episodes ( sometimes producing grey or black snows resulting from the presence of lignite ash ) which are the major contributors to the total annual amount of wet deposition of sulphate in Scandinavia ( Smith and Hunt , 1978 ) and which occasionally even lead to black , acidic snowfalls in Britain . |
| 11 | Two or multiple causes contributing to the anaemia ( excluding dietary deiciency ) were found in 17 patients . |
| 12 | The upper limit in y of the logarithmic profile occurs where dynamical processes relating to the boundary layer as a whole become significant . |
| 13 | No question of civil rights or legal experts poking amongst the debris of the fiasco . |
| 14 | Spend five or ten minutes glancing through the book . |
| 15 | What I mean by that is that if there are eight or ten things running across the spectrum from left to right , they 're all at specific points , and that way you can do a more sophisticated job of layering , while still retaining a certain delicacy . ’ |
| 16 | My only contribution to the debate is to affirm that the colony of twenty or more specimens growing along the lane above my house breeds true . |
| 17 | Time is assumed discrete , but the time period is so short that the probability of two or more vacancies coming to the individual 's notice within any given period is zero . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) The council of any district or islands area may from time to time determine whether the district or area shall be divided ( or continue to be divided ) into licensing divisions for the purposes of this Act , and such a council shall , on making a determination under this subsection , forthwith notify the Secretary of State of such determination and cause notice thereof to be published in two successive weeks in one or more newspapers circulating in the district or area . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) The clerk of a licensing board shall , in accordance with the provisions of this section , not later than three weeks before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the applications are to be considered , cause to be published in one or more newspapers circulating in the area of the board a list of all competent applications made to the board for the grant , including the provisional grant , of a new licence ; the regular extension of permitted hours . |
| 20 | An almost annual phenomenon of the garden book trade is horticultural convergence — two or more books appearing on the same , previously neglected subject , often without the authors knowing anything of their rivals ' work . |
| 21 | The idea of oranges fresh from Surrey gardens , or tender shrubs flourishing in the north , clearly appeals to him . |
| 22 | This last week McGeechan will have had four or five nights working on the videos , and preparing the training sessions . |
| 23 | It may be an allergic reaction or residual bacteria remaining in the body and affecting the circulation . |
| 24 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 25 | So , whatever the weather , atop swinging or steaming loads trundling through the village , Josh stands ramrod straight facing the rear and semaphoring the driver 's intentions to frustrated queues of following cars . |
| 26 | The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario . |
| 27 | In the tropics and subtropics , regional changes in rainfall patterns and amounts may have beneficial or adverse effects depending upon the nature of the climate changes . |
| 28 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 29 | The horse could have two or four shoes depending on the amount of work which it is going to do . |
| 30 | You have three or four children sitting round the computer discussing , arguing , planning , working with the machine , and the machine is , as I say , co-ordinating their activities . |