Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is this uncertainty that makes the political leaders more than usually tentative in their predictions . |
| 11 | Repealers see the Wright amendment as another post-deregulation rule that helps the big airlines get bigger . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | the light that led The Holy Elders with the gift of myrrh . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He flicks the wheel and slides the front wheels . |
| 16 | Brian Laban dons his chest wig and flexes the huge muscles of Britain 's ultimate sports cars |
| 17 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 18 | The MP added : ‘ I 'm calling on Saville 's to withdraw as quickly as possible from the deal and allow the local authorities to acquire the land . |
| 19 | In the political sphere , some embraced accidentalism and employed the social organizations of Catholicism in order to defend themselves . |
| 20 | One way to discourage such demands was secretly to salt a shallow anchorage with a bag of rotted chicken heads which would quickly draw a sinuous and evil-looking pack of otherwise harmless sand sharks that would twist menacingly under our keel and persuade the paying customers to seek the deeper darker waters offshore . |
| 21 | If a landlord who owns a three-bedroom flat enters into three separate independent tenancies with three independent tenants each of whom is entitled to one bedroom and to share the common parts , then the three do not enjoy exclusive occupation of the flat jointly under the terms of their tenancies . |
| 22 | Would the right hon. Gentleman prefer to do what Labour last did — cut the hospital building programme and cut the other programmes ? |
| 23 | For it is the clearest signal yet of how political reform in eastern Europe could redraw the contours of European industry , extend the geographic and political boundaries of the EC 's 1992 programme and alter the global strategies of such companies as GE . ’ |
| 24 | SOLUTION ( a ) We must first write the equation for the complete combustion of ethanol : Applying equation ( 12 ) to this reaction and remembering that the standard molar enthalpy of formation of elements in their standard states is zero we obtain By rearranging this equation and substituting the above values for the standard molar enthalpies , we obtain ( b ) The enthalpy diagram will show two routes to the formation of the combustion products of ethanol from the elements in their standard states : route A is the overall reaction : route B is divided into two steps , B1 — the formation of from its elements in their standard states , and B2 — the combustion of . |
| 25 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 26 | Such duplication could cause juristic confusion and undermine the very values intended to be protected . |
| 27 | Ayala Lasso also expressed the hope that the admission of the Koreas would reduce regional tension and provide the two states with " an appropriate forum in which to consider the many things they have in common and to overcome the few remaining obstacles to their unification " . |
| 28 | You replace your roof and stack the discarded tiles beside your house ; can you claim on your household insurance if they are stolen ? |
| 29 | A total of my own expense and ticked the appropriate bits complied with them . |
| 30 | Mary poured herself a cup of tea and savoured the aromatic smells of good food for which this house was known for miles around . |