Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that a girl would ever be allowed to touch the great hammers or take the white-hot metal from the furnace with the giant tongs . |
| 2 | On each campus , there is a designated member of Student Services staff who can assist with any queries or put the overseas student in touch with an appropriate source of help . |
| 3 | On each campus , there is a designated member of Student Services staff who can assist with any queries or put the overseas student in touch with an appropriate source of help . |
| 4 | This level is probably sufficient to cause clinical disease in susceptible adult animals or to upset the normal functioning of the gastric mucosa in immune cows . |
| 5 | They ca n't register their children at schools or use the Mexican health system for fear of detection . |
| 6 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 7 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 8 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 9 | She chooses to paint objects and settings that reflect the natural pleasure and sympathy she has with her daily life . |
| 10 | Here the pulses are converted into signals that provide the directional information , just as with a conventional switch type joys tick . |
| 11 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |
| 12 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 13 | The figure in the painting spoke of the human spirit and looked out at the world with a serene timelessness , and eyes that knew the great gift of being a master and an artist . |
| 14 | He is a 60-year-old man with humorous eyes that belie the apparent strictness of his manner . |
| 15 | In addition , the International M&A Network has prepared further guidelines that address the particular circumstances of cross-border engagements ( see the handbook ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Growth continued to create shortages that expanded the black market . |
| 20 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 21 | These include cortisol ( which rises later in the night as the body prepares for waking and is strongly influenced by the body clock ) ; antidiuretic hormone ( which is one of the ways in which fluid formation by the kidney is reduced at night , see Chapter 6 ) ; and the male sex hormone , testosterone , as well as some of the hormones that control the reproductive cycle in women . |
| 22 | None the less , the trustees were able to raise more than £70,000 towards the repairs of the church , funds that unlocked the crucial support from English Heritage and the National Heritage Memorial Fund . |
| 23 | Stressing the need for dialogue involving oil companies , contractors and government to improve the cost-effectiveness of North Sea operations , Mr Chambers said : ‘ Creating new solutions that improve the economic attractiveness of our region requires a shift in our thinking . ’ |
| 24 | This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question . |
| 25 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 26 | Van Laue supports this — ; ‘ the Soviets proved what seemed to be highly effective solutions to the crises that confronted the Russian state under the Tsars ’ . |
| 27 | His head must have fallen almost directly on top of one of the tall spikes that surmounted the old iron rail . |
| 28 | From the earliest days , no one in Emor was a mere individual : he was also the current representative of a gens , one of the great Emorian dynasties that dominated the political life of the empire . |
| 29 | But this is not the sole source of the loss because other subjects that received the final test with the light in context B maintained suppression to the light . |
| 30 | All the weight is on the right foot , using well-bent knees that enable the upper body to remain in a stable upright position . |