Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policy would focus on economic efficiency , there would be explicit rules and guidelines ( including exemptions from the rules ) , there would be a relatively unified set of competition-policy institutions ( a strengthened OFT , and a reformed MMC to act as a tribunal to review the analysis and proposals for fines or remedies made by the OFT ) , and there would be penalties for abuses . |
| 2 | Not , she thought as she dressed unhurriedly on Wednesday , that Piers seemed in the least bothered by any tension . |
| 3 | Only read this section if you are ready to accept the risks and rewards offered by the more sophisticated loans . |
| 4 | The rate equation is a statement relating the rate of a reaction at a fixed temperature to the concentration of the reacting species by means of a rate constant and indices known as the where k = rate constant for a particular temperature m = order of the reaction w.r.t . |
| 5 | Company registration numbers are sometimes included in the case of company landlords , tenants and guarantors to assist with the more positive identification of companies for search purposes at HM Land Registry . |
| 6 | Their complete accord with singer and songs makes for the most perfect symmetry . |
| 7 | Using as its basic theme the medieval joust , IOU 's new show Full Tilt is pure spectacle , using an array of imaginative eccentric contraptions and costumes made from the most unlikely of materials ! |
| 8 | Using as its basic theme the medieval joust , IOU 's new show features an array of imaginative contraptions and costumes made from the most unlikely materials ! |
| 9 | Canoeists and surfers waited in the deceptively calm waters of the Severn for the big wave to arrive . |
| 10 | Few followed him , for most people the church remained the symbol of external authority , its beliefs and teachings intermingled with the deeply rooted superstitions and essential paganism of most small rural communities . |
| 11 | Cornish harbour scenes and fishermen jostled with the more exotic terrain of Corsica . |
| 12 | As each year passed , the gap became wider between people living within the city boundary and families living in the relatively affluent suburbs of Greater Glasgow . |
| 13 | But little of the earnings trickle downwards : most of the foreign currency earned goes on imports of food and goods demanded by the predominantly white and affluent visitors . |
| 14 | The salons of ‘ Omagiu ’ crammed with foreign honours and gifts contrasted with the rather paltry display of genuinely historical artifacts recording the history of Romania itself . |
| 15 | Among North Kensington laundresses , the local maxim was ‘ the best ironer gets the worst husband ’ , although within the local community it would appear that husbands and wives adjusted to the often superior earning power of the wife , and in at least one suburban district the custom prevailed whereby husbands remained responsible only for a sum which covered rent , the baker 's bill and boots for the family . |
| 16 | Modern high-level languages are concerned with the symbolic manipulation of information , and meaningless data names and commands detract from the otherwise easy flow of text . |
| 17 | Furniture was smashed and fists flew in the most serious trouble at the Maze in recent months . |
| 18 | On the other are ( mostly ) honest firms and markets groaning at the continuously mounting burden of regulation . |
| 19 | The Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , met Hassan during an unscheduled visit to Morocco on May 13-14 , 1989 , to discuss bilateral relations and issues related to the newly formed Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU-see p. 36474 ) . |
| 20 | The failure of the rule-based systems has led some researchers to talk about third generation machines and others to return to the more basic systems from the 1960's . |
| 21 | We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us . |
| 22 | While temples built in the later eighteenth century may have stood in a naturalistic landscape inspired by the paintings of Claude , earlier garden buildings almost certainly stood in more formal settings , and fragments of avenues or long overgrown yew and beech hedges may remain . |
| 23 | Instead she 's returned home to Milton Keynes , after surgeons realised at the very last moment , that a kidney donated by her father would be rejected . |
| 24 | AS renovations continue at the temporarily closed Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh , the creative life of the art space continues in the shape of an outreach project for pupils from four disadvantaged primary schools in Lothian . |