Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No regular job , but does n't draw social security or benefits from the unemployment office — ’ I knew that was a con for a start , as the cops rarely liaised with the Social Security people , let alone with the income tax ferrets , thank God' — and yet no known criminal source of income . |
| 2 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 3 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Trade union horizons rarely rise above the economistic , and fail to address the political and cultural aspects of the crisis that working class people are living through . |
| 5 | Even so , as in the first round , he retained considerable support in the rural areas and among social groups most threatened by the economic changes ( such as farmers and miners ) and disaffected young people . |
| 6 | Part II of the Act extends and modernises the system of controls on processions and meetings hitherto found in the Public Order Act 1936 and miscellaneous pieces of local legislation . |
| 7 | However , the press in the other European member states rightly concentrated on the long list of measures that were agreed and signed in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 8 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 9 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 10 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 11 | I acted as unofficial welfare officer for others and spent untold hours merely listening as the unworldly struggled to achieve the alternative vision of a new heaven on earth . |
| 12 | Roads much traversed in the Civil War or in the invasion of Poland , like those of Belorussia , deteriorated from use by military vehicles . |
| 13 | Generally , works by Renoir , Chagall , Sisley and Pissarro artists hardest hit by the Japanese pull-out stabilised at pre-boom prices , Renoir 's ‘ Yvonne et Jean ’ from the Boston estate sold to an anonymous collector at $2.2 million ( £1.2 million ; est. $2–2.5 million ) . |
| 14 | 1985 ) that societies living in areas where resources are rare or absent may compensate by the production of pottery for exchange with neighbouring groups better endowed with the necessary resources . |
| 15 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 16 | Many nurseries are adding species and Old varieties to their lists and you may well find shrub forms , ramblers and climbers all grouped under the one heading . |
| 17 | From the seven candidates eventually interviewed for the vacant headmastership , Mr. Alfred Edward Daniels was appointed . |
| 18 | They ca n't even pick up just the words that are English words only pronounced in the Orcadian way . |
| 19 | 's sister is an electrician at the factory and they have three brothers all qualified in the same job . |
| 20 | Lymphoblastoid α-IFN ( Wellferon , Wellcome , Beckenham , UK ) was given at a dose of 5 mega units daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , a four week rest period and a second interferon course lasting 16 weeks ; for five patients from Rotterdam the duration of the second course was prolonged up to 30 weeks . |
| 21 | I am referring , of course , to the fact that birds ' knees apparently bend in the opposite direction to ours — they appear to lift their legs backwards in contrast to our forward movement ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 22 | The Smiths were heroic party-poopers at the Top of the Pops office do , glowering at the forced jollity ; they were like those gauche youths Who turn up to house parties only to cling to the dark comers in chaste disdain , driven by the naïve , vaguely inhuman conviction that all merriment is a lie . |
| 23 | The reopening of borders long sealed by the cold war could be the event that confirms the change . |
| 24 | With the exception of a few journalists perhaps over-committed to the official Anglo-American view after following it so assiduously for three years , the press , too , was mostly unenthusiastic . |
| 25 | No doubt a great deal eventually comes to rest in the deep ocean basins , hut these are not environments much represented in the stratigraphical record of the continents , which have been our main preoccupation . |
| 26 | The reason is that efficiency gains accrue across the whole range of a firm 's output : the welfare losses only arise from the marginal loss in output as monopoly prices are changed . |
| 27 | Pathways from the two ears thus converge on the olivary body at each side ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 28 | That such high quality was possible was due in part to experienced craftsmen being imported from other Habsburg lands but even more important was the nucleus of craftsmen already based in the Italian quarter , from the period of Rudolf II . |
| 29 | His eyes finally settled on the old stoneware sink in which Zhukov did his fixing . |
| 30 | Another Anglican Parish was created in the Grove Park area of Chiswick , upon the building of another church , in 1872 , with funds generously provided by the seventh Duke of Devonshire , and the Church was named St. Paul 's . |