Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers made claims about the familial nature of their businesses and their warm relationship with their employees . |
| 2 | The three free-standing objects introduce complexity through the marked difference in content and philosophy . |
| 3 | Konstantinos Mitsotakis Prime Minister Tzannis Tzannetakis Deputy Prime Minister Athanassios Kanellopoulos Deputy Prime Minister Miltiades Evert Minister to the Prime Minister 's Office Antonis Samaras Foreign Minister Yannis Varvitsiotis National Defence |
| 4 | Such temperatures are best attained by the use of microrefrigerators using helium as the working fluid . |
| 5 | * The government is to host a further meeting in Tunis in April , when representatives of Western donors and multilateral agencies will consolidate plans to continue support for the environmental programme . |
| 6 | In Bucharest , gangs of crawling labourers comb weeds from the cobbled forecourts of Socialist ministries . |
| 7 | The space agencies of the United States , Russia , Europe , Japan , China and Brazil have agreed to a joint programme which will use both existing and new satellites to monitor changes in the global environment . |
| 8 | Discourses gain status from the relative power of the group with which they are associated — and as a general rule the media tend to favour the discourses of the elite . |
| 9 | The adoption in the 1950s and 1960s by western economies of demand-management policies to combat unemployment in the main kept unemployment rates down and we saw no return to the extremely high unemployment rates of the 1930s . |
| 10 | These interactions make sense of the high degree of sequence conservation observed within the basic helix for different b/HLH/Z proteins , as all the conserved residues make either base or phosphate contacts . |
| 11 | Enid 's fingers made pleats in the lilac skirt she was wearing . |
| 12 | Operators change shifts in the new control room at the heart of the mill . |
| 13 | Plans to revive part of the old railworks in Swindon have been sabotaged . |
| 14 | There have been a number of published attempts to provide solutions to the cross-area aggregation , or ‘ areal interpolation ’ problem ( Goodchild and Lam 1980 ; Lam 1983 ) . |
| 15 | In contrast , Section 11 grants available since 1966 to some authorities to provide funding for the special needs of ethnic minority pupils , have tended to marginalize spending on black pupils . |
| 16 | The first charity began in 1659 , when Simon Smith gave by his will £5 , the interest of six shillings to provide bread for the poor on Easter Day . |
| 17 | Between 1951 and 1971 the likelihood of the court reports of rape cases gaining publicity in the national press largely rested on whether the case was reported in the News of the World . |
| 18 | Vauxhall is making a big push with diesel models across the entire range , in many cases matching prices with the equivalent petrol models . |
| 19 | Miklós Mojzer addressed the problems of the art trade in Hungary , where as yet no lists exist for objects considered part of the national heritage , while Lubomir Slavicek focused on financial , management , and display problems at the National Gallery in Prague . |
| 20 | The directive requires member states to establish systems for the national regulation of releases . |
| 21 | For the most part , however , it was not the democrats who carried the day , but the Whig Founding Fathers , who were as concerned as their British namesakes to establish restraints on the popular will , to protect the interests of the rich and propertied , and to restrict the franchise to property-holders . |
| 22 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 23 | In 1947 waterways became part of the nationalised transport industry , investment being concentrated on the wider rivers and canals . |
| 24 | In England , by the later seventeenth century , there had emerged a fairly clear-cut distinction where foreign affairs were concerned between a northern and a southern department , with each of the two secretaries handling relations with the foreign states which fell into one of these geographical divisions . |
| 25 | The fact is that the clothing ( Carhartt and its ilk ) and the footwear ( Blundstone , Red Wings , Georgia Boot ) — traditional US , Canadian , Australian and even Japanese labels producing clothing for the outdoor worker — have only recently gained proper agents to represent them around Britain . |
| 26 | Opposition groups and supporters boycotted celebrations of the national day on May 20 . |
| 27 | In this situation , abject apologies in some respects remain complicit with the patronizing attitudes from which they attempt to disassociate themselves . |
| 28 | When the Charter was granted in 1844 , graduates of the London and Edinburgh schools became members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , although they did not obtain exclusive right to the title ‘ Veterinary surgeon ’ . |
| 29 | You will recall that during the last Executive Committee meeting we considered a proposal to create an index to help branches make use of the increasing amount of planning policy guidance which is now available . |
| 30 | Municipal sewage works have used such methods to treat sewage since the early 1900s and the biogas produced , which consists on average of 70 per cent methane and 30 per cent carbon dioxide ( Hawkes and Hawkes 1987 ) , can be used to power the digestion plant itself . |