Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am satisfied that the promise was understood by all parties only to apply under the conditions prevailing at the time when it was made , namely , when the flats were only partially let , and that it did not extend any further than that . |
| 2 | In the light of the OAS decision , Fujimori stated on Aug. 30 that there was no remaining excuse for political parties not to participate in the elections . |
| 3 | A SIGN taped to the wall above the lavatories in the Ministry of Constitutional Development in Kampala politely asks visitors not to expectorate in the sinks . |
| 4 | The greatest German composer of the seventeenth century , Heinrich Schutz , studied in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli , composed Italian madrigals there , and returned twenty years later to sit at the feet of Monteverdi . |
| 5 | The Home Office took more than six weeks even to respond to the points made , by which time the situation in my constituency had already exploded out of control . |
| 6 | The Conference was not just an affair , mounted at great trouble and expense , at which the Party 's footsoldiers were given four days simply to kick over the traces . |
| 7 | The top of Bugmore Lane was only a hundred yards from the Church , so gardeners carefully timed their own comings and goings not to coincide with the comings and goings of the congregation . |
| 8 | One of the highest-ranking Mafia figures ever to testify for the authorities , Gravano claimed to having participated in 19 murders , and insisted that those committed during the last 10 years had been on the orders of Gotti . |
| 9 | Retailers were confident that they could trust such customers implicitly to pay for the goods they took away or had delivered . |
| 10 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 11 | And er got three suggestions really to add to the criteria that Professor Lock 's put forward . |
| 12 | There , on a promontory into the Atlantic , you can walk over the same cobblestones once walked on by Price Henry the Navigator , and see the stone compass rose set into the courtyard with which , it is thought , he taught the early Spanish adventurers how to navigate across the oceans . |
| 13 | Standing astride the Cat 's Back ridge in the Black Mountains with valleys on three sides it 's impossible for your spirits not to soar with the buzzards flying high overhead . |
| 14 | The men and women were on their knees , begging the agents and constables not to persist with the evictions . |