Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have a file here of R&D projects undertaken by the late Head of SimFic , the traitor , Berdichev . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Getting in first with the patent application was what the university authorities regarded as the top priority . |
| 11 | The notes floated in the still air , strong and clear . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And we now have fifty agents of different nationalities , all highly trained in the skills taught at the special place . ’ |
| 15 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |
| 16 | The detailed notes given in The Supreme Court Practice at paras 20/5 — 8/2 are also pertinent . |
| 17 | The series of oral papillae is separated from the 2–3 small blunt oral tentacle scales situated on the proximal edge of the adoral shields — these scales are much smaller than the oral papillae . |
| 18 | Requests received under the British Library Document Supply Centre 's back-up scheme have again dropped very significantly to 792 , less than half of last year 's requests . |
| 19 | How are the project plans aligned with the corporate plan ? |
| 20 | A survey of 106 health authorities undertaken by the National Association of Health Authorities in 1987 showed that most were facing severe financial pressures and taking emergency measures to meet them , such as closing wards on a temporary basis , cancelling elective operations , drawing on reserves and delaying creditor payments . |
| 21 | Ludens , steadying Marcus 's head with one hand , his fingers plunged into the short hair , and slowly and firmly moving the very sharp instrument , felt like an acolyte performing a dangerous task , perhaps intended as a test . |
| 22 | Party members were further prohibited from joining or affiliating to the " proscribed organizations " ( groups listed by the National Executive and almost always under Communist Party control ) . |
| 23 | On Wednesday morning the prince , in his role as president of Scottish Business in the Community , will visit Craigmillar to see projects developed by the local community , local authority and other agencies , with help from the Friends of Craigmillar — a group of business leaders . |
| 24 | The monarchical tendencies typified by the Orange family were stoutly opposed by the republican forces which were strong in Holland , by far the most powerful province of the federation , and notably among the great merchants of Amsterdam . |
| 25 | Noting that the conferences opening on Dec. 15 would " take due account of the opinions given by the European Parliament and by the Commission under Article 236 of the Treaty " , the Council confirmed that the work would proceed in parallel , should be concluded " rapidly and at the same time " , and that their results would be submitted for ratification with a view to this taking place before the end of 1992 . |
| 26 | The Structure Plan Review ( to 2005 ) , under preparation , will not achieve significant levels of materiality until well after the initial Consultative Draft stage , indeed , until Lothian Regional Council has publicly determined its support for the premises , assumptions , forecasts , policies and proposals developed through the public participation process and subsequently supported by the Director of Planning . |
| 27 | Other element maps formed from the perceived surface counters of this work reflected similar levels of discrimination . |
| 28 | In 1987 , the number of new houses added to the total stock was only 212,000 , and of this number only 34,000 were in the public sector . |
| 29 | Citizens ' action groups protested at the environmental damage caused by NATO manoeuvres and , in August 1989 , the SPD called for an end to the special rights and privileges enjoyed by the allied forces . |
| 30 | A chemist would say that the colour comes from sulphur molecules trapped within the crystalline matrix of the stone . |