Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb base] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Three bottles they drink between the two of them . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Continuing along the line of the old ramparts you arrive beside the huge atrium in the Piazza XXIV Maggio . |
| 10 | Once you have these you are then in a position to work out which behaviours to use and which behaviours to avoid yourself in order to shape the reactions you want from the other person . |
| 11 | Oh god Oh no wonder you say there 's us like eating cockles I suppose as the French eating snails int it ? |
| 12 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 13 | A suitably pedagogic figure called Skuul puts the case for cause and effect which is speedily reduced to relativism by an opposing voice : ‘ You pursue essentials I ride with the random … |
| 14 | But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency . |
| 16 | Nearly all the farmhouses we see between the compact villages of the country between the Yorkshire and the Dorset coasts date from the century 1750–1850 . |
| 17 | If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between . |
| 18 | Since the values for E and G vary , of course , for each solid the values we get for the theoretical strengths will vary too . |
| 19 | Do you think the fact that the French erm constitution and the French administration is so different from the British administration , this leads to some of the erm occasional tangles and differences of views we have between the British and French ? |
| 20 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 21 | ‘ Now is your opportunity to put to me any questions you have on the detailed implications for the people of the World of the Council 's decisions . ’ |
| 22 | By allowing the experiments you get to the next stage . |
| 23 | To change their properties you click on the right mouse button . |
| 24 | After prayers and meditations we move to the high altar where a female form , draped entirely in black , is seated on a chair beside the statue of Isis . |
| 25 | As with all dreams we reach for the ideal … ’ |
| 26 | All of our businesses have maintained or improved their market shares as managers we concentrate on the full year rather on either half and because of our seasonal bias er , those of you who 've been , er , to our interim presentations before er , will remember that without fail I tell you our results at the half-way stage are not a clear guide to the outcome of the year as a whole . |
| 27 | This idea also correlates with the positions we ascribe to the various functions of the individual in that the physical outer layer is associated particularly with the digestive and generative processes in the abdominal region , emotions are associated with the heart in the thorax and thinking is an attribute of the brain in the head . |
| 28 | This holds that through their actions in the market consumers oblige companies to produce the goods they require in the largest quantities at the lowest possible price . |
| 29 | These elite customers can — and do — make fabulous profits by buying goods from ‘ closed ’ shops and selling to ‘ commercial shops ’ or even directly to the shadow economy , where the non-privileged are forced to shop because they ca n't find the goods they want in the ordinary shops . |
| 30 | Our discoveries about their similarities and differences will lead us to examine other passages in Exodus and Numbers , and our desire to explain certain features of all these texts will then encourage us to look at the positions they occupy in the larger narrative , and so discuss their contexts in greater detail . |