Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed with amusement that the tapestries hanging there illustrated the seven deadly sins . |
| 2 | There have been claims that the division of the state into three federal regions following the nationalist violence and other crises has seriously damaged the Belgian state and constitution . |
| 3 | An appeal for funds has just raised the first £100,000 , enabling the Museum to further improve the facilities offered to the visitors to this already fascinating centre of British aviation and motoring . |
| 4 | Her eyes flickered sideways to read the digital cost display ’ … . m afraid your budget … an no longer . |
| 5 | In effect , the two new superpowers came together to crush the great powers of yesteryear ; and the growing voice of Afro-Asia in world affairs was heeded for the first time . |
| 6 | Passers-by pause here to admire the spectacular view over shanty-town rooftops , across the crater-like basin of the city to the Andean ranges on the other side . |
| 7 | And in between Terry 's forays into various shops did indeed view the bizarre remains in St Peter 's Church . |
| 8 | In Asia native peoples had also seen the European powers defeated , in 1941–2 , by an Asian power , Japan . |
| 9 | A consortium of eight nuclear organizations had also formed the Nuclear Electricity Information Group , a propagandist organization which began a hard sell for nuclear power . |
| 10 | In the period February 21st-26th , the French losses amounted to 25,000 men , and , although during that time the ratio of French and German casualties was reliably estimated at three to one , by the 29th German losses had already passed the 25,000 mark . |
| 11 | Although nobody outside the club gave us a prayer of winning , the lads had already done the difficult part of the job by turning the tide at Anfield . |
| 12 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , former protagonists have certainly broken the mental log jam . |
| 14 | But the major political parties have yet to get the real message , namely that the people know full well that someone , somehow , is going to have to pay for German unification . |
| 15 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 16 | But since 1977 , the country 's computer manufacturers have consistently matched the American company 's price reductions . |
| 17 | Three trainers have now crossed the hundred barrier this season and , of them , only Henry Cecil is backed by oil-rich sheikhs . |
| 18 | The Scots have always numbered the multi-talented among their congregation , the ‘ lad 's o' pairts ’ . |
| 19 | The preceding paragraphs have tentatively related the different patterns to different theory-practice relationships , associating ‘ high-theory ’ or applied fields with a consecutive pattern , ‘ dialectical ’ fields with sandwich ones and ‘ low-theory ’ ones with the post-experience one . |
| 20 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 21 | The nave of three bays has also retained the original vault though the marble facing has gone . |
| 22 | The commandos moved forward to man the 3-inch mortars . |
| 23 | Banks , factories , joint stock companies began slowly to replace the traditional economic machinery of Asia and Africa , as they had already replaced that of pre-industrial Europe . |
| 24 | Technicians spent yesterday repairing the faulty pump for last night 's performance . |
| 25 | How a long-net is used to surround a warren , with one or more nets set internally to subdivide the enclosed area to restrict rabbit movements . |
| 26 | Whoever had sent these assassins had completely underestimated the fat knight . |
| 27 | It reported that the difference of view between the government and other countries had now led the Royal Commission to announce an inquiry into the evidence of the health effects of nitrate in groundwater . |
| 28 | And second , the attitudes and temperament of any family with whom the child is already living and where either the parents have already become the psychological parents or else the intention is that they should become so . |
| 29 | On the other hand , not all geographical areas have yet seen the same changes . |
| 30 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |