Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father always used to do that for his crocuses because the birds loved the yellow ones , do n't they ? |
| 2 | It was nonetheless held by the majority of the House of Lords that the three year period ran from the date when the workman suffered the injury and not from the earlier date when the manufacturers manufactured the defective machine . |
| 3 | One of the units occupied the coastal town of Khafji , 20 km south of the border with Kuwait . |
| 4 | We ran the experiment in 12 sessions of eight subjects each ; eight of the sessions involved the eight groups , the remaining four sessions the subjects doing the experiment on an individual basis . |
| 5 | These are usually low status roles , whereas the roles given the masculine gender are predominately high status , such as Businessman . |
| 6 | Opposite the Cages was what the eagles called the Three Island Pond where ducks and flamingos were kept . |
| 7 | Rochead had submitted alternative elevations for his plans , one in an Elizabethan style and the other in the French style , and to emphasize further their stylistic bias , the judges selected the latter version for a premium . |
| 8 | The curriculum had been debated , if at all , by Local Education Authorities , teachers , and the largely teacher-dominated Schools Council , as well as by the Examination Boards , over which the universities exercised the greatest influence , but never by ministers or the general public . |
| 9 | This covers the whole of the costs up to May 16th , 1908 ( the official Opening ) and when the officers elected the previous December , formally took over the working of the club and course . |
| 10 | According to legend , the gods placed the great peak of Gunung Agung on Bali to stop this island paradise rocking — today the 10,400 sturdy feet of mountain rise high above the island and survey the scene of banyan trees , palm groves , bays of soft , pearl-white sand and terraced rice fields which lie at her feet . |
| 11 | Had the jurors followed the prescribed menu , George Bush and Pete Wilson and Tom Bradley and Darryl Gates would today be applauding the essential soundness of the judicial machine , and the inherent fairness of America . |
| 12 | The Judaization of Jerusalem had been under way since the Israelis occupied the whole city in 1967 , but this was the first occasion on which Jews had moved into the Christian Quarter . |
| 13 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 14 | After , after the years of hardship and loss and then ev everything came as a relief , course we were still at war with the Japanese and people were still in Burma , our soldiers were still in Burma fighting the Japanese , but having said that the main issue was over and it was n't long after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb and of course , I always thought they had to really or else the Japanese would still be fighting now the er they had special dances in the Town Hall for the V E Day and the Americans who did a a jitterbug contest and er I always remember my friend and his sister , who was English , they actually won it against the Yanks he er |
| 15 | The sunlight that filtered through the windows mellowed the old wood and brought out the richness of its colour , and even the stone floor glowed softly and did n't give any impression of coldness . |
| 16 | ‘ Have the doctors identified the radioactive substance ? ’ |
| 17 | Mrs Flaherty was what the nans called the Wrong Element . |
| 18 | However , we would suggest caution in making generalisations from the results given the eventual shortfall of nine schools from a small and carefully constructed sample . |
| 19 | Despite strong condemnation of the National Government by the Left , there is little evidence that the voters regarded the Labour Party as a suitable alternative . |
| 20 | The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) . |