Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abolitionists did not expect immediate conversion by slaveholders ; it was not necessary in so far as they were sure planters could not for long resist the economic imperatives . |
| 2 | A case has to be made , therefore , for seasonally adjusting the monthly figures and for excluding school-leavers . |
| 3 | Carson concludes , after carefully researching the individual incidents which constituted this high rate of fatality ( as well as those involving serious injuries ) that the majority could have been avoided if the ‘ political economy of speed ’ had not been allowed to supersede the ‘ political economy of employees lives and limbs ’ . |
| 4 | We planted the major part of the scheme in three rows with the intention of eventually coppicing the smaller varieties but it very soon became obvious that the grass cutting was too big a job for our ancient mower . |
| 5 | What the agency does need is a politically astute and highly articulate spokesman , capable of effectively rebuking the relentless attacks of the far Right with sane and moderate reason . |
| 6 | This undoubtedly reflects the complexity and breadth of the Government 's spending , but for the accounts to be of much use the disaggregated figures have to be used . |
| 7 | But the reports still fell short of conclusively identifying the ultimate recipients of the money . |
| 8 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 9 | As it settles down and the chances of ever attaining the radical goals become ever more remote , members begin to shift their attention to the routine satisfactions of just ‘ being a member ’ . |
| 10 | After an abortive attempt to force Shamil into the open in 1845 , Vorontsov combined a policy of gradually strangling the rebellious highlanders with an approach to civil administration which allowed natives a little room for manoeuvre . |
| 11 | Bernard , by now spokesman for the local race relations committee , accused the Christabel Focus of racism : of wilfully offending the religious sensibilities of a minority group . |
| 12 | It was n't a question of singing flat , he decided , but of simply singing the wrong notes . |
| 13 | Thereafter it was just a case of hard riding the thirty miles through green Lothian , by Hailes and Haddington and Musselburgh , for Edinburgh , which he reached before nightfall . |
| 14 | It should now be apparent that for any rights theory to be capable of satisfactorily addressing the broader problems which now confront our traditional representative institutions it will need to transcend the essentially liberal principles which lie at the heart of Dworkin 's thesis . |
| 15 | The long-running recession has meant that interest in these properties is low , but if they can be sold the cash raised will be put back into further improving the remaining operations . |
| 16 | EAST GERMANY : Parliament dropped the party 's constitutional right to rule last month after sudden revolution from below swept the old leaders aside . |
| 17 | Mrs St Albyn had before long heard the unpleasant rumours concerning the new tenants at Alfoxden , and ordered , in spite of Tom Poole 's intercession , that on no account should they remain at the mansion beyond the following midsummer . |
| 18 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 19 | While there have been papers and reviews aplenty , no single book has been available until now to embrace the microbial populations which flourish and decline , evolve and stagnate , as co-terrestrials with man and the other animals . |
| 20 | From here follow the red markers to sign for Moor Edge and go left to cross Shooter 's Clough Brook . |
| 21 | Sometimes the newcomers have settled in without doing the original inhabitants any great harm — and so it is that the rabbit and the fallow deer have become accepted additions to Britain 's fauna . |
| 22 | He signalled imperiously and a porter seemed to materialise from nowhere to take the two cases , and that left Alain free to deal with Jenna . |
| 23 | The Searles , more than even Redgrave and Pinsent , became the heroes of millions of armchair TV viewers as they came from nowhere to win the coxed pairs in the last three strokes of the race . |
| 24 | Beginners , however , almost always try to secure contrast by alternating passages for strings and wind , and experience great difficulty in satisfactorily combining the two groups . |
| 25 | Of course he is still er going to presumably appoint the regional panels , the professional recruitment consultant and the two people who themselves will be independent of government . |
| 26 | The research first aims to empirically model the resulting adjustments in the economy ( such as the savings rate , housing demand and employment ) . |
| 27 | Thucydides must have perceived this , without necessarily endorsing the extreme views which he gives two of his speakers : Alcibiades who said that democracy was acknowledged folly ; and Kleon who said that a democracy was incapable of running an empire ( vi.89 ; iii . |
| 28 | We have proved that it can be done without necessarily having the best players — Haguellar |
| 29 | We have proved that it can be done without necessarily having the best players in the world . ’ |
| 30 | There have been occasions this season when Quakers have taken the lead and then sloppily folded ; but this time the players rolled up their sleeves to jealously protect the three points . |