Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 2 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 3 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |
| 4 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 5 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 6 | As regards finding more ‘ absolute ’ tempo area indications for automatic mechanical instruments : there are mechanical noises on the recordings I made of the 1793 and undated Niemecz mechanical organs associated with the turning of these instruments ' flywheels . |
| 7 | When John Lehmann published the second issue of Orpheus , an annual symposium of the arts which folded after the first two volumes , he employed Minton to design its dustjacket and small tail-pieces . |
| 8 | In addition French ( 1986b ) found that various characteristics which go against the stereotyped image of the physiotherapist are stigmatised by that profession ; for example , to be very overweight was considered more of a barrier than blindness or needing to use a wheelchair . |
| 9 | You may hear in the first syllable of ‘ photography ’ , in the second syllable of ‘ photograph ’ and in the third syllable of ‘ photographer ’ , but the brain recognises links between these a vowels and , and respectively , and supplies underlying vowels which change into the appropriate sound as the stress pattern changes . |
| 10 | Dispensing devices include single dose sachets , measuring dispensers integral with the packaging and graduated containers or measuring caps which assist in the correct dilution of liquids . |
| 11 | But the USR statistics also list ‘ other ’ and ‘ general ’ courses , and combinations which cut across the main course groupings . |
| 12 | The catalogue raisonné which the German collector Dieter Blume has been compiling since the late 1970s has now reached its ninth volume , and has a general index listing well over 2000 unique sculptures , from Caro 's schoolboy efforts under the tutelage of Charles Wheeler , through his heavily modelled ‘ geometry of fear ’ period when he was Moore 's assistant , to the more distinctive Caro of the welded steel constructions which began in the 1960s . |
| 13 | The main ones were post-war reconstruction , a productivity gap between the USA and the rest which drew American dollars and know-how into Europe and Japan , a sharp upward shift in peacetime levels of public expenditure ( caused by defence needs and welfare transfer payments ) and the absence of general synchronisation in the downswings which occurred in the major economies from time to time . |
| 14 | Experience tells us that there are organizations which fall between the profit-oriented and the Type B non-profit . |
| 15 | Chainarong Noonpakdi , head of the First army region and responsible for directing the army units which fired on the unarmed demonstrators , was made director of the Institute of Army Academics . |
| 16 | Interests in the North Side , then , do not neatly fit into neighbourhood units which dovetail into the geographic space of the area . |
| 17 | In some debates it appears that traditional farming is regarded as systems of high input of fertilisers and pesticides which started in the 1950 's and are still progressing and developing today . |
| 18 | A socialist third force on the other hand proved impossible because , to widespread surprise , it was Christian Democratic parties which emerged as the predominant political force in Western Europe after 1945 . |
| 19 | All the best rocking horses have heads which look to the left or right , and this angling is well worth the small extra trouble since it does give the finished horse a little more ‘ life ’ . |
| 20 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 21 | The stewards sent a shock wave through leading teams by admitting that the F1 Technical Delegate had found every team except Lola were using cars which conflicted with the technical regulations particularly in relation to active suspension and traction control . |
| 22 | The football stadiums , the Bank Holiday , the Co-ops which boomed from the 1880s , the New Unionism and the socialist revival , the music hall , the seaside excursion , even the fish-and-chip shop , should all be added to this already impressive list of cultural and material innovations in this period . |
| 23 | She closed her eyes , taking an unsteady breath as she tried desperately not to recall the deeply tanned torso , the slim hips and the taut , firmly muscled thighs which lay beneath the dark Savile Row suit he was wearing with such ease and assurance . |
| 24 | The three hundred or so grammar schools which existed in the late Middle Ages were mostly local and small . |
| 25 | Taking for example the nuclear power plant control room , the question is whether the desk operators should be expected to cope with all emergencies which appear within the total information presentation or whether , for complex and dangerous situations , a more senior person such as the shift-charge engineer should be called upon to make the decisions . |
| 26 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 27 | Okay so this macroscopic current can be expressed in terms of the simply in terms of these three parameters which relate to the single channel properties . |
| 28 | He even uses words which come from the Old Testament Book of Daniel and they recognised that and here they 've got this pathetic looking individual in front of them threatening to destroy the temple , threatening to this , that and the other and here you 've got this power Sanhedrin who ca n't recognise him really as the Messiah and yet there 's a ring of truth about some of things that he 's talking about . |
| 29 | Words which fall into the open class are those which are potentially unlimited in number because new words can be added to the language as the need arises . |
| 30 | Pupils will be encouraged to use printed lists of keywords when the system is fully operational , One difficulty here is to create keys for subjects which begin with the same first three letters e.g. FARMING and FAROES but the school librarian sees this as a useful information problem for pupils to tackle . |