Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 2 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 3 | Even the closer links with local farmers can not compensate for this , since few farmers and farm workers share their leisure activities or meet socially off the farm . |
| 4 | Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities . |
| 5 | Stress it is which poisons the innocent spangles of daisies , dissonantly warps the song of the idiot birds or leers gibberingly over the useless privet . |
| 6 | With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the situation is made more complicated by variations in the design : several of the objects have four eyes or nipples instead of the expected two , so there is probably some additional layer of symbolic meaning that has yet to be penetrated . |
| 8 | He said that if I did n't do it he 'd stop me having baths or going out in the cellar . |
| 9 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 10 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 11 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 12 | And such was the liking the company felt for Colley the Mason that they put their fingers in their ears and turned away from the door , and stared straight ahead at the altar . |
| 13 | Christina heard Elaine 's screams and laughs even above the deafening roar of the sea . |
| 14 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 15 | Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's . |
| 16 | Slice fungi and fry down with the butter and onions until all the liquid has evaporated . |
| 17 | It changed itself into a stream of electronic signals and dived head-first into the TARDIS . ’ |
| 18 | As the shadows lengthen , the men can be seen standing around with a pint of beer in hand , while mothers keep watchful eyes on the kids and catch up on the latest gossip . |
| 19 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 20 | But in a car , as the driver , taking young Pat to training sessions and matches all over the country . |
| 21 | And if it was important , to us and the country , why in the world were n't we snuffing out all those niggling grievances and getting on with the job of winning ? |
| 22 | We 're still talking about Fiona Armstrong 's calves and debating fulsomely about the length of hemlines . |
| 23 | From that school of mingled games , friendliness and lessons I went with but a short pause to one where lessons were business , and a very serious business indeed since most of the scholars had already begun to work in offices and came here in the evenings to qualify themselves to earn more money and more leisure . |
| 24 | One researcher has suggested that they may be able to detect the very low frequency vibrations that are created in the water by waves and reflected back from the ocean floor , an echo-location system similar in principle to that used , at the other extreme end of the frequency scale , by bats . |
| 25 | His plastic sandals are swept out onto the waves and float jauntily on the surface of the pool . |
| 26 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 27 | He screwed up his eyes and stared unseeingly at the calendar on the further wall . |
| 28 | She opened her eyes and looked straight into the beautiful face of the Italian . |
| 29 | He wiped the sweat from his eyes and looked down at the automatic in his hand . |
| 30 | Lambert opened his eyes and looked bleakly at the map . |