Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 2 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 3 | He was never recognised officially , principally because of the painful sincerity of songs that portray the lowest depths of spiritual and material Russia . |
| 4 | And they will undoubtedly object to the more unbridled formulations that enter the three fictions ; the biography of Eliot has plenty to say on the subject , too , while maintaining a comparative , and suitable , reserve . |
| 5 | In addition , the International M&A Network has prepared further guidelines that address the particular circumstances of cross-border engagements ( see the handbook ) . |
| 6 | In addition , the International M&A network has prepared additional guidelines that address the particular circumstances of cross-border engagements ( contained in the UK handbook ) . |
| 7 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 8 | But they took no notice and jacked her out anyway , and the hospital was crammed with the odour of disinfectant and medicines and mechanical solidities that drove the pretty meanings away . |
| 9 | The manufacture of the books that fill the movable shelves was often fraught with technical problems . |
| 10 | We asked Volvo , famed for cars that outlast the hardiest perennials , to find a solution . |
| 11 | Remembering what Garvey had said about comforting the sick dame , Gabriel leapt to the end of the play and snatched at the only words that seemed the right ones for these poor corpses , these walking dead : |
| 12 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 13 | The difficulty in finding such variables is in itself a measure of how internally divergent BV actually is , and it is striking that the variables that show the sharpest patterns of social variation are subsets within the larger sets . |
| 14 | The harnesses that supported the two Chelonians swung from side to side , knocking them against the sides of the tank . |
| 15 | Mr Travers , who drew his figures from public expenditure White Papers , said the sectors that enjoyed the biggest rises were education for the under-fives ( up nearly 90 per cent ) and children with special needs , both favourite Labour targets . |
| 16 | The front driver 's side of the bus was driven back twelve feet amputating Mr Wright 's legs and killing the three students . |
| 17 | It depends on an understanding by the man of the horse 's natural reactions , knowing that if he recognises the horse 's signals and makes the right moves , the horse will treat him — and trust him — as he would another horse . |
| 18 | This led to the Little Vestry where she would hang up her coat and to the kitchen where she would wash out the vases and arrange the fresh flowers . |
| 19 | The fighting between the UVF and UDA , and the struggles for power within the UDA , did much to damage the reputation of the working-class loyalist organizations and to permit the professional politicians to regain control after the UWC strike . |
| 20 | There are also the ubiquitous activities of the Audit Commission especially their growing requirements to establish performance indicators and publish the statistical results of these exercises . |
| 21 | They fill concert halls and attract the top conductors . |
| 22 | The development plan therefore should contain partnership goals and reflect the local priorities , as well as include key programme goals of the service . |
| 23 | My back was to the wind which whistled coldly in the wire frame of my spectacles and cracked the loose folds of my robe . |
| 24 | They squatted in the bushes and watched the doubled guards patrolling up and down . |
| 25 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 26 | The statutory responsibilities of LEAs and governing bodies in respect of quality control should be exercised with due acknowledgement of teachers ' special knowledge and skills and their freedom and right as professionals to adopt those strategies which build on their personal strengths and reflect the unique circumstances of each school and classroom . |
| 27 | pluralists believe that problems which arise are resolvable if individuals choose the correct solutions and formulate the right strategies for change . |
| 28 | Left : Most boatyards had a signwriter who painted the boats in their company liveries and added the decorative touches . |
| 29 | In the case of international law what the institutions of positive law have to offer is a means for settling dangerous disputes and limiting the destructive powers which could be used to resolve those disputes in an unacceptable manner . |
| 30 | The evidence reviewed in this chapter does not however demonstrate even in the earlier agitational aspects of the anti-slave trade campaign that antislavery took up radical methods and challenged the normal modes of bringing about change . |