Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new laws are making tries a scarce commodity ; if Scotland are to become a creditable force by the next World Cup , the three-quarters will need a good overhaul or at least the acquisition of the necessary skills to perform their moves in the heat of an international arena . |
| 2 | But the police have two eye-witnesses to support their charges against the women , whom they describe as ‘ sporadically employed ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 4 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 5 | In the capital the police told employers to work their men to the point of exhaustion the day before the terms were to be made known in order to leave them too weary to protest . |
| 6 | The resistance would have to be disarmed too , but documents said to have been captured from the Khmers Rouges give details of plans to hide their troops in the jungle . |
| 7 | The emigration of Madeirans to far-flung places , where they worked hard and sent back funds to support their families in the island , is almost as old as the colonization of the island itself . |
| 8 | This time around , the national spotlight is far less intense , leaving the candidates to peddle their messages to the local electorate without the big boys to lend a hand . |
| 9 | On 16 December we and our Community partners set out guidelines to inform our decisions on the recognition of new states in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | To encourage schools to define their objectives for the school library in terms of the curriculum and the educational benefit anticipated for their pupils , including the development of reading and learning skills . |
| 11 | To encourage schools to define their objectives for the school library in terms of the curriculum and the educational benefit anticipated for their pupils , including the development of reading and learning skills . |
| 12 | There is also a third sort which jumps under motor cars to embarrass their drivers in the presence of the farmer . |
| 13 | Since 1962 they have had very few opportunities to express their opinions in the national press , and even less on radio and television . |
| 14 | Besides building an 18-hole golf course , and charging trainers to exercise their horses on the track , he is instigating another new concept in this country by constructing American-style barns so that training can be done at the track as it is in the United States . |
| 15 | Thereafter the appellants never took steps to discharge their obligations under the agreement which was the subject of the Tomlin order , either in relation to the matters to which I have referred or indeed in relation to any other of the terms . |
| 16 | Within two weeks we were encouraging our readers to lobby their MPs concerning the restrictive Night Assemblies Bill , Robert Tripp was regaling us with tales of groupies and interviews had taken on a new air of contention , seriousness and madness . |
| 17 | Nor have we been able to reassemble our group of school informants to renegotiate their accounts in the light of other things we know about schoolrooms in particular and young people in general . |
| 18 | Jim saw an open petrol station and cut in front of a two-kilometre queue of Romanian cars to flash his coupons at the attendant . |
| 19 | ‘ We can make some reasonable seats with dead twigs to keep our bottoms off the damp ground , if you like . |
| 20 | Campaigning for carriage of cycles on public transport ( we do n't like people having to use cars to get their bikes into the countryside ! ) ; |
| 21 | And then we went to a few Western shops to get our costumes for the Urban Cowboy premier . |
| 22 | The aim is to identify companies which can show that they are taking positive steps to improve their ways towards the environment , as well as to raise the level of debate about green issues . |
| 23 | Owing to the reluctance of many heads to involve their schools in the survey , we found it difficult to reach a sample of the size intended . |
| 24 | It removed the previous obligation upon local authorities to sell their houses into the private sector . |
| 25 | It also asked member states to replace their currencies with the ecu , eventually . |
| 26 | A Buckingham Palace spokesman said there was ‘ no access ’ for Di or other parents to visit their boys during the week . |
| 27 | A number of measures had been taken by the defendants to cover their tracks from the outside world . |
| 28 | 75% of juniors and 25% of senior schoolchildren are forbidden by their parents to ride their bikes on the road ; |
| 29 | Greenpeace yesterday urged parents to protect their children from the sun during the hottest part of the day to avoid the damaging effects of the depleted ozone layer . |
| 30 | He said Apscore was one of the first companies to port its products to the Pick look-alike databases UniVerse and UniData , and now the Sun agreement will let them better support these products on Sun hardware . |