Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most States developed during the century some system of compulsory service ; but all of these were in varying degrees incomplete , haphazard and inequitable . |
| 2 | According to the ministerial reasons given to the Bill this feature is supposed to be a profit-making company with substantial own financial resources solely consisting of corporate members and governed by the council of directors . |
| 3 | Research institutions were asked to provide information about grants and contracts received during the period 1984/85 and 1989/90 . |
| 4 | The study will be based mainly on cases referred to the Child Sexual Abuse Unit of the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street but will collect other appropriate data . |
| 5 | The PGL had a run of four successive titles broken by the NIBA last year and our hoping to get back on the rails in Dublin next month . |
| 6 | Where interviewers are centrally grouped they can be called together for a briefing session , when any queries can be raised and dealt with on the spot , but where large organizations have interviewers scattered about the country this may be a counsel of perfection , although peripatetic fieldwork supervisors do invaluable work in this as well as other areas . |
| 7 | Gifts account for just over half the books received into the Library this year : 1455 out of a total of 2814 . |
| 8 | Because of the idealized nature of the numerical experiments the longitudinal orientation in these maps is arbitrary and is merely determined by the specified phases of the planetary waves prescribed at the model lower boundary ( similarly for Fig. 2 ) . |
| 9 | defence insurers argued against the order 14 summons on two counts ; first the plaintiff could not obtain summary judgement because there were two defendants and one might escape liability ; secondly the first defendant sought leave to amend his defence to argue contributory negligence because the plaintiff had not worn a seat belt . |
| 10 | It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress . |
| 11 | Among all 9760 subjects included in the analysis those with periodontitis had a 25% increased risk of coronary heart disease relative to those with minimal periodontal disease . |
| 12 | He knew that the constable on patrol in Boundary Drive had noticed no strange cars parked in the road that night as he passed along . |
| 13 | He had hardly finished his remark when there was a terrifying roar overhead as a salvo of shells crashed into the area near to where the Germans had been mortaring . |
| 14 | It comprises 30 pictures organised by the Church Urban Fund . |
| 15 | It comprises 30 pictures organised by the Church Urban Fund . |
| 16 | He then joined his brother at the Brighton works of the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1871 to 1875 , working under the direction of William Stroudley [ q.v. ] , after which the two brothers moved to the North British Railway works at Cowlairs and in 1882 to the neighbouring works at St Rollox of the Caledonian Railway , where Peter was appointed assistant locomotive engineer and works manager . |
| 17 | Tranmere lost 3-0 at Rochdale , where the goals came in the opening 34 minutes ; Chester ( Don Travis , Bill Deakin ) beat Halifax 2-1 at home ; and Southport ( Jim Nuttall , Frank Hindle own goal ) drew 2-2 with Bradford at Haig Avenue . |
| 18 | He was particularly linked to the problems of football hooliganism and sparked a storm when he called English supporters deported from the Italian 1990 World Cup ‘ the effluent tendency ’ . |
| 19 | Their role in executive search is no longer of much significance , with only 5% of their headhunting clients ranking within the Fortune 500 companies . |
| 20 | ( b ) The parties to the contract The two parties envisaged under the SGA 1979 are the seller and the buyer . |
| 21 | Astronomical computations show that the first day of the two calendars agreed in the year 2773 BC , and it has been concluded that this was when the Sothic calendar was introduced . |
| 22 | He led her into a large room where a floor-to-ceiling window gave out on a garden dominated by a fountain and a single curving oak , its tracery of branches lavish against the steel grey sky . |
| 23 | Half Fisherman 's rib , neckbands and wool winders are just three of the subjects aired at the club this month . |
| 24 | The bottom section shows the relative positions of the probe fragments derived from the gene 62 promoter and the restriction sites used for their isolation . |
| 25 | And the day I have games was asking me to do fifty pick-ups run around the circuit five hundred |
| 26 | West Yorkshire The collections include the records of the British Waterways Board from the year 1652 and thereafter . |
| 27 | Although there were some large and important exceptions , the population of most grammar schools fell within the range 550–750 . |
| 28 | Modern tournament fighters keep on the move all the time . |
| 29 | ‘ Those books belong to the kind old gentleman who took me into his home . |
| 30 | The air conditioning units associated with the Library rolling stack shelving on the third floor have been replaced . |