Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " 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 | The Controller of the Silver Mines laid his arms on the table in front of him and clasped his hands together , sinking his head . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the police have two eye-witnesses to support their charges against the women , whom they describe as ‘ sporadically employed ’ . |
| 7 | The courts make their calculations on the basis of the current provisions and do not speculate on future changes . |
| 8 | J. N. M. Smith put out pastry ‘ caterpillars ’ for thrushes , and watched how the birds adjusted their movements to the arrangement of prey . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Accounts want your comments on the expense sheets of several officers engaged on the Throgmorton case … ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the early stages of the war for the Caucasus the Russians concentrated their resources in the west . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One stormy evening in December a party of Tibetan traders drove their yaks down the steep path into the village from the west . |
| 25 | The Brothers banged their steins upon the table-tops in a quickening rhythm till the fish skeletons quivered and seemed about to swim . |
| 26 | Dressed for easy recognition in white blancoed webbing , with clean ( at the start ) faces , and with every second man carrying a blue-lensed pencil-beamed torch , the assault parties dropped their scaling-ladders over the bow and plunged ashore . |
| 27 | She said last night : ‘ All the night drivers put their lives on the line . |
| 28 | There is also a third sort which jumps under motor cars to embarrass their drivers in the presence of the farmer . |
| 29 | Since 1962 they have had very few opportunities to express their opinions in the national press , and even less on radio and television . |
| 30 | The trade unions , trades councils and local Labour parties informed their members about the dangers it presented and energized their opposition — albeit in the form of peaceful protest . |