Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 2 | For these reasons I prefer to use the phrase ‘ rules for changing the rules ’ ( Bateson , 1976 ) . |
| 3 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 4 | Lecturers I spoke to saw the course as chiefly concerned with the development of critical skills combined with promoting an understanding of the vocational areas on which communications has a bearing : |
| 5 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 6 | Over the years with the help of several experts I 've learnt the secrets of the make-up artists : how to highlight the areas of the face that are assets and how to cover the less flattering features ! |
| 7 | For these meetings I had to hoover the room , light the incense , greet the guests like a head waiter and serve them Indian sweets . |
| 8 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 9 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 10 | The fact that this button also felt particularly woolly meant that ‘ non-save paranoia ’ set in , and a couple of times I had to exit the program then return to see if my settings had actually been stored . |
| 11 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 12 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 13 | By adopting various graphological forms I hoped to fool the editors to whom I submitted my poems with a covering note , often under a false name . |
| 14 | I visited the official information bureau in George Square armed with paper and the names of two groups I wanted to get the telephone numbers of . |
| 15 | In recent months I have had the opportunity to go to Kashmir by arrangement with both the Pakistani Government and the Indian Government , and I have seen the profound suffering among Kashmiris of both religions — Hindu and Muslim . |
| 16 | Over the eighteen months I have had the multifasciatus they have showed signs of wanting to breed but have failed to do so . |
| 17 | And that means getting rid of the animals which have turned the rectory lawn into a dustbowl . |
| 18 | Naturopathy : a system of medicine involving different natural methods which help to stimulate the body 's vital force . |
| 19 | It is primarily such long-term considerations which have led the Bank to adopt a particular approach to the issuing and selling of new government securities . |
| 20 | In addition to the relationship display which is incorporated into the alphabetical list of subject terms , thesauri often incorporate other lists which help to show the relationships between terms . |
| 21 | So it was not after all , the pressure from the farmers , or the cost , or the private discussions with the fertiliser manufacturers which had motivated the UK to drag its feet over nitrates , but a uniquely shrewd insight into the better interests of public health . |
| 22 | The charm — that demon glitter of narrowed eyes which had given the lie to all previous insults — was conspicuously absent . |
| 23 | On Feb. 21 , the Voice of Israel said that the Israeli army units which had attacked the villages of Kafra and Yatar had " completed their task " and were leaving Lebanese territory . |
| 24 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 25 | Of the 90 members of the National Assembly , serving a four-year term , 40 were directly elected ; the remaining 50 were distributed by the Republican Electoral Commission according to a proportional representation system among those eight parties which had reached the threshold for parliamentary representation by winning 3 per cent or more of the vote . |
| 26 | The election was widely characterized as a contest between " angel " or pro-democracy parties which had opposed the Suchinda government ( the Democrat Party , New Aspiration Party , Palang Dharma and Ekkaparb ) and " devil " or pro-military parties . |
| 27 | But , despite initial successes in the eastern campaign , the military setbacks of the first winter in Russia marked the end of the ‘ sunny Hitler weather ’ — the run of the easy triumphs which had formed the corner-stone of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 28 | When you are approaching your period these are the hormones which help to reduce the amount of discomfort ( physical and emotional ) that you feel . |
| 29 | This commitment , together with the bipartisan majorities in favour of the measure in both Houses , was in sharp contrast to the partisan disputes which had delayed the passage of the initial benefits extension in late 1991 . |
| 30 | In approaching philosophical problems John Locke ( 1632–1704 ) kept the temperature of discussion as low as possible ; there was no point in reviving the interminable religious disputes which had produced the Wars of Religion in the earlier seventeenth century . |