Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 2 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 3 | The establishment of the NIRC was a political act aimed at trying to contain trade union power within particular rules prescribed by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 4 | The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right . |
| 5 | It 's not clear how many people participated in the event in Britain or elsewhere by carrying out local ascents , raising sponsorship for the ten lifeline projects designated by the United Nations . |
| 6 | If the authorities intervened in the gilt-edged market to support prices , they would be tending to add to the liquidity of the banking system . |
| 7 | Produced in six bi-monthly parts it gives an up-to-date , comprehensive summary of all decisions on human rights cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 8 | This is achieved by limiting the range of cases heard by the High Court , by extending the jurisdiction of the county court , ensuring that , in most cases , the same remedies are available in the county court as in the High Court , amending the transfer system , reviewing the costs sanction system that applies when a case is taken inappropriately in the High Court , improving the trial facilities at county courts by concentrating trials at centres where continuous trial facilities are available , providing new centres , creating a new tier of Circuit judges to take additional civil jurisdiction burdens , and increasing the number of people eligible for appointment as county court and district registrars or district judges . |
| 9 | The first cases heard by the special courts had been on Sept. 6 , involving charges of financial irregularities against three former ministers , Jehangir Badar ( whose case was dismissed on Sept. 12 on grounds of insufficient evidence ) , Khwaja Ahmed Tariq Rahim , and Ahmed Khan Maneka . |
| 10 | For reasons given in the next section , we remain sympathetically sceptical . |
| 11 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 12 | If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only . |
| 13 | Rather , the reasons given by the young people followed a consistent pattern of circumstances . |
| 14 | If the planning application is persisted with , I support the plea for calling it in , for the reasons given by the hon. Member for Beaconsfield . |
| 15 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 16 | This year 's theme is Museums and the Environment and a database will be set up on projects completed for the 18 May . |
| 17 | I have a file here of R&D projects undertaken by the late Head of SimFic , the traitor , Berdichev . |
| 18 | If six garages are now placed over the five cars on the top shelf ( leaving one garage empty ) , and four garages placed over the four cars on the bottom shelf ( all garages being full ) , then about one in three four-year-olds now maintain that the bottom shelf has more cars . |
| 19 | In the early spring , Peckham will meet the health minister , William Waldegrave , to present him with a set of firm plans developed over the past months . |
| 20 | One nil Leicester twenty four minutes completed in the second half . |
| 21 | He showed some nepotistic , or rather patrimonial skill in getting his sons placed in the public service ; his failure to have amassed even a modest competence of wealth may be taken to argue either extreme probity or reckless extravagance , but more likely arose from having over-extended his credit in trying to send supplies to Ireland back in 1642 . |
| 22 | In desperation he attempted at dawn on the 27th to throw a force across the Meuse at Samogneux , but the attackers were caught up on wire entanglements hidden beneath the flooded river . |
| 23 | In this study , sulphate reducing bacteria must have been absent , or their activities limited in the non-methanogenic samples tested , because it is highly unlikely that methanogenic bacteria will displace sulphate reducing bacteria for this mutual growth substrate given an adequate supply of electron acceptor ( sulphate ) . |
| 24 | Getting in first with the patent application was what the university authorities regarded as the top priority . |
| 25 | The notes floated in the still air , strong and clear . |
| 26 | Now the army is back in control and has marked its victory by boosting up new pictures of Saddam , always with the same smile , the white of his teeth emphasized by the dark moustache . |
| 27 | The other major assumption made from this approach is that the territorial cleavages formed by the centre-periphery divide are not superimposed exactly on other social and political cleavages ; on the contrary . |
| 28 | Perhaps , in the fourth century , Christians recognised , far more clearly than their modern counterparts , how closely such attitudes conformed to the historical facts . |
| 29 | And we now have fifty agents of different nationalities , all highly trained in the skills taught at the special place . ’ |
| 30 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |