Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence believes his side have shown the right ingredients for promotion success in the last four games . |
| 2 | DoE and the Department of Trade and Industry have asked the British Standards Institution to revise any analytical standards that lay down the use of either of these compounds . |
| 3 | The proportion of lone parent families arising from divorce have shown the largest increases between 1976 and 1986 — almost 80% in the decade . |
| 4 | Staff and councillors at the town hall have praised the generous efforts of the milkmen who will inevitably have to spend extra time picking up the gifts . |
| 5 | It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors . |
| 6 | Dickens denies it ever had a distribution deal to handle the X terminals promised by the troubled Athenix Corporation ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 7 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 8 | Man 's mind yearns for a rural existence — where 99.999% of his evolution occurred — but for many of us , mind and body have to take the daily buffets of urban , industrial civilization . |
| 9 | The media interest in the collapse of the GATT negotiations and the first signs of a world trade war have overshadowed the REAL reasons for Jacques Delors ' visit today . |
| 10 | A good integrated package need to meet the main criteria . |
| 11 | We shall not argue that any particular mode of production ‘ demands ’ in a simple way a particular form of sexuality , but the rhythm of economic , and consequent social , transformation do provide the basic preconditions and the ultimate limits within which social forms are organised and reorganised . |
| 12 | Academic researchers working in higher education have to convince the relevant committees in their institution that the work is important enough for scarce resources to be devoted to it . |
| 13 | political democracy , urbanization , and education have brought the different sections of the population into more frequent contact with each other and have created even greater mutual awareness , the central value system has found a wider acceptance than in other periods of the history of society . ’ |
| 14 | The signal box is the setting for an unexplained sequence of events that to this day have puzzled the local authorities . |
| 15 | While everyone else goes about believing 60 or 65 to be the correct retirement age , those who pride themselves on being positive about age have lifted the chronological sights to 70 . |
| 16 | Doctors who treat food intolerance have observed the mental symptoms to clear up at the same time as the physical ones during an elimination diet , and to reappear when the patient tests particular foods . |
| 17 | The prosecution have to prove the four elements already mentioned , and no more . |
| 18 | McHale was pleased that his side finally moved off the 38-point mark after a three-week wait to break the 40 points barrier . |
| 19 | Whilst in no way related , the stories of the pea and the pine serve to illustrate the many facets of plant introduction through the ages , reminding us of those thoughtful , artistic , practical and often intrepid individuals who were responsible for the plants which grace our parks and gardens today . |
| 20 | Now plant enthusiasts from all over the world come to admire the four acres of flower borders and lawns . |
| 21 | They needed at least a two goal win to reach the international stages of the competition . |
| 22 | A ROMANTIC couple have become the first Britons to wed in Disney World , Florida . |
| 23 | Because the intrusive habits of the certain members of the press have driven the best stories underground . |
| 24 | The specialisms of geriatrics and orthopaedic surgery have recorded the largest decreases in average length of stay . |
| 25 | That 's partly because 30 years of pop culture have soaked the working classes with cool and partly because the present generation of art students , thanks to the cuts and the anti-Marxist/'60s/experimental backlash , are wankers . |
| 26 | However , the cuts in higher education funding have affected the social sciences quite severely , as sociologists have retired early and not been replaced , and as research grants have become more difficult to get , whether from ESRC or from charitable trusts such as Leverhulme , Rowntree , or Nuffield . |
| 27 | The intention is to reveal how distinct Soviet attitudes to neutrality , neutralism and non-alignment have underlain the practical relations of the USSR and the countries defined by these terms in Europe and the Third World . |
| 28 | To return to our theme : how did the gases of the early atmosphere combine to form the organic compounds of which living things are made ? |
| 29 | What , if anything , will the Maastricht agreement do to eradicate the real inequalities throughout Europe , which mean , for example , that pensioners in this country receive about 43 per cent . |