Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thomas wished his sons to enjoy the best education he could provide , partly as a means of fulfilling their intellectual potential , but even more as a necessary upward step on the social-economic scale . |
| 2 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 3 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 4 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 5 | When words bring the required response there is less need to scream and it becomes all right to ask . |
| 6 | Successive Secretaries acknowledge the outstanding support she provided in that role . |
| 7 | This does not mean that the timetable disappears , although in the smaller primary schools operating the integrated day it does so to a very great extent , leaving only such activities as physical education and music needing some organized attention . |
| 8 | It must have seemed utterly reasonable to extend the golden rule of the Sermon on the Mount to animals so that animals deserved the same treatment which the human expected from other humans . |
| 9 | They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child . |
| 10 | These joints give the arthrophytes ( ‘ jointed plants ’ ) their scientific name , and the little whorls of tiny branches produce the bushy appearance which accounts for their popular one . |
| 11 | Here the writer gropes for words to describe the indescribable communion which followed the sacrifice and fulfilled the covenant . |
| 12 | A conference held by the two parties discussed the general election which was due in mid-1992 and called for an " independent , national body " to oversee it . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sure the inspectors did the best job they could , ’ says Mr Reed , choosing his words carefully , ‘ but the whole process is very undesirable , very unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | Madame 's fingers twisted the magnificent ruby she wore . |
| 15 | We then tested four transgenic mice containing the -300bp promoter which contains HS3 , but not HS1 and HS2 ( figure 5 ) . |
| 16 | The modern climate , particularly the distribution of rainfall , has combined with different soils to produce the variable vegetation which now covers our landscape . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the new Basle proposals confirm the curious charm which regulation has acquired of late . |
| 18 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 19 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 20 | We former Three-Ninetieth er Bomb Group members er our relatives and guests appreciate the fine treatment we 've been offered here in England er we love you all . |
| 21 | Tiebout ( 1956 ) argued that individuals select the local community whose provision of local public goods and tax prices best satisfies their preferences . |
| 22 | I admired what he was doing with his life from afar and I put the museum on my list of places to experience the next time I was in the Miami area . |
| 23 | Workers know the important information which enables them to take part in discussions , meetings and decision-making ; disabled people need time to gain access to that information . |
| 24 | Since labour is far and away the most important cost of production in the short run , a reduction in money wages will lower the marginal costs facing the representative firm which , on the assumption of marginal cost pricing , will lead to a fall in the price of output . |
| 25 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 26 | Kinlochbervie is finely situated on a hillside overlooking Loch Inchard , the village being an untidy straggle of buildings bordering the only road which continues for four miles beyond to its terminus at Sheigra . |
| 27 | By calculating the arrival time of photons reaching the distant observer it is possible to show that the energy in the signal fades away quickly . |
| 28 | Coleman would have had to be a man of superhuman cunning and stupidity to have served for over 40 years fighting the very thing he was engaged in creating . |
| 29 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 30 | The plateau above was a hollow basin , ringed with bold peaks and holding several large meadows where millions of mini-daffodils overhung the rushing stream which head east as the Oued Nfis . |