Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wildlife is abundant in fish , ducks and water hens , and it is a great joy in springtime to see mother ducks bring their families down the steep church embankment , across the road and onto the pond . |
| 2 | Some birds laid their eggs on the floor and others showed signs of frustration . |
| 3 | Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked . |
| 4 | It was an age in which all classes of society were expanding , in which men from every walk of life who enjoyed adventure and travel could find new opportunities as merchants to invest their talents at a large rate of interest . |
| 5 | The Controller of the Silver Mines laid his arms on the table in front of him and clasped his hands together , sinking his head . |
| 6 | The new laws are making tries a scarce commodity ; if Scotland are to become a creditable force by the next World Cup , the three-quarters will need a good overhaul or at least the acquisition of the necessary skills to perform their moves in the heat of an international arena . |
| 7 | Certain shareholders sold their shares to a take-over bidder , received the purchase price and gave him irrevocable proxies to vote on their behalf , but , in the light of the articles , transfers were not to be lodged for registration . |
| 8 | But the police have two eye-witnesses to support their charges against the women , whom they describe as ‘ sporadically employed ’ . |
| 9 | The courts make their calculations on the basis of the current provisions and do not speculate on future changes . |
| 10 | J. N. M. Smith put out pastry ‘ caterpillars ’ for thrushes , and watched how the birds adjusted their movements to the arrangement of prey . |
| 11 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 12 | The security situation within Kashmir deteriorated during the latter half of 1989 as militant groups pursued their aims in the face of a state government unable to give any effective response . |
| 13 | Two researchers drew their conclusions from a survey of a week 's complaints about dampness at five local authorities . |
| 14 | Accounts want your comments on the expense sheets of several officers engaged on the Throgmorton case … ’ |
| 15 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 16 | In the early stages of the war for the Caucasus the Russians concentrated their resources in the west . |
| 17 | In the capital the police told employers to work their men to the point of exhaustion the day before the terms were to be made known in order to leave them too weary to protest . |
| 18 | In fact , both Houses regulate their proceedings on a more rational basis , by Standing Orders . |
| 19 | The resistance would have to be disarmed too , but documents said to have been captured from the Khmers Rouges give details of plans to hide their troops in the jungle . |
| 20 | The emigration of Madeirans to far-flung places , where they worked hard and sent back funds to support their families in the island , is almost as old as the colonization of the island itself . |
| 21 | During November the three largest parties announced their candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for April 26 , 1992 , to elect a successor to Kurt Waldheim , who had in June 1991 declined to stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 22 | This time around , the national spotlight is far less intense , leaving the candidates to peddle their messages to the local electorate without the big boys to lend a hand . |
| 23 | It may be necessary at this stage to release further information , such as current trading and sensitive information such as detailed customer and supplier analyses , which will enable the offerors to finalise their offers into a Heads of Agreement . |
| 24 | In a haggard era which finds loud lies smothering truths in every crib and pallet and bed , and with the older authors banging their skulls against the Wailing Wall , this young poet and novelist dares deny that the great God Pan is dead . |
| 25 | On 16 December we and our Community partners set out guidelines to inform our decisions on the recognition of new states in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | The covered stalls with their piles of goods of every description , the traders shouting their wares from every stall under the open sky , all this is purely medieval ; and around these open markets stand the lordly twentieth-century shops , the nearest to the London shops that the town can show . |
| 27 | On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch . |
| 28 | Other unions were equally alarmed by the potential scale of the problem , which was just emerging as schools received their budgets for the new financial year . |
| 29 | To encourage schools to define their objectives for the school library in terms of the curriculum and the educational benefit anticipated for their pupils , including the development of reading and learning skills . |
| 30 | To encourage schools to define their objectives for the school library in terms of the curriculum and the educational benefit anticipated for their pupils , including the development of reading and learning skills . |