Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 2 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |
| 3 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 4 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 5 | As regards finding more ‘ absolute ’ tempo area indications for automatic mechanical instruments : there are mechanical noises on the recordings I made of the 1793 and undated Niemecz mechanical organs associated with the turning of these instruments ' flywheels . |
| 6 | Mrs Stych snapped back that all the ladies present must be well aware of the multitude of offices she held in the charitable organizations of Tollemarche . |
| 7 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 8 | In their two contrasting styles we return to the main theme of this chapter : boyo Neil 's communicating style emphasising ‘ commonality ’ ; and the formal prime ministerial Margaret Thatcher style emphasising ‘ control ’ . |
| 9 | The story is told of one time Archbishop of Paris , who with two or three other of his friends as young lads they went into the great cathedral there at Notre Dame |
| 10 | Even today , in the amalgamated forces , this structuring principle holds good ; and many old hands still refer to the ‘ real police forces ’ as those small units they joined in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 11 | In the third part of the series in which our road testers name the cars they rate as the best , the ultimate in luxury saloons comes to the fore . |
| 12 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 13 | In Rome these stressed the emperor 's achievements ( military victories , public works , etc. ) , his virtues and divine endorsement of his regime ; in the provinces they dwelt on the important cults or monuments of the city which made them . |
| 14 | With swift steps he crossed to the glazed door and saw her crouched before a flowerbed , apparently engrossed in the task of tugging weeds from between the flowering rose bushes . |
| 15 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 16 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 17 | He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ . |
| 18 | The roles he played in the glossy pages of The New Yorker , for instance , were almost parodies of gracious living and social superiority . |
| 19 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 20 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 21 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 22 | Nora enjoyed the undercurrents and tensions she felt in the light-seeming chatter all around . |
| 23 | A testing ground with other women in which the moments of assertion were not always secure , in which women attacked and were attacked , in which in an inverted way we both used the consciousness-raising groups to assert a new independence , a new self-determination , and at the same time to express the unarticulated tensions we felt in the other areas of our lives . |
| 24 | The errors we made in the 1960s and 1970s can , and are , being corrected . |
| 25 | Three bottles they drink between the two of them . |
| 26 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 27 | All necessary and desirable directions for disposing of the proceedings should be given at the pre-trial review , and the parties should as far as practicable ask for all the directions they need at the pre-trial review , giving prior notice to all interested parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 and 3 ) . |
| 28 | Their aerial photographs he subjected to destructive scrutiny , the light crop lines they detected under the unbroken fields he dated several centuries later than the sacking of Aurae Phiala , the dark crop marks emerging so strongly in contrast he refused to consider as early Roman military lines , but set well back into pre-Roman settlement . |
| 29 | Jardines has threatened that , unless the regulators leave it alone , it may delist the shares of companies it controls from the local stock exchange — 14% of the market 's capitalisation . |
| 30 | If this does indeed prove to be the case , one of the most significant outcomes of the GCSE is likely to be the limitations it imposes on the parallel development of records of achievement . |