Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |
| 2 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption . |
| 4 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 5 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 6 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 7 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 8 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 9 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 10 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 11 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 12 | Mr Ishaq has also been at work on the Sindh assembly , in which Miss Bhutto 's supporters make up the biggest group . |
| 13 | Inside , the great piers curve up the interior space and emphasise the verticality of the design . |
| 14 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 15 | SCOTLAND FANS SWARM ROUND THE WEE MAN |
| 16 | PWMI has studies these sectors to work out the average lifetime for the material in the market . |
| 17 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 18 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 19 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 20 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 21 | Recognizing the complexities and psychological dangers of this awesome doctrine , most non-Puritan clergy played down the Calvinist theory of salvation to such an extent that many of their parishioners were able to continue to believe that their conduct could influence their destination after death . |
| 22 | He drew her against him , his lips seeking out the smooth plane of her cheek , the full , ripe curve of her mouth . |
| 23 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 24 | These honours subjects range over the whole field of legal interest . |
| 25 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 26 | LMS delegates to schools control over the major part of their budgets . |
| 27 | The means given beside each item are taken from Reason , Manstead , Stradling , Baxter & Campbell ( 1988 ) who had 520 drivers fill in the 50 item questionnaire . |
| 28 | She pushed him away , closing her eyes to shut out the present image of his face . |
| 29 | He pressed his hands to his eyes to shut out the dreadful picture . |
| 30 | You could already see those vipers sorting out the Ambre Solaire . |