Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 2 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 3 | No doubt a finder of perishable commodities would be justified in taking any reasonable steps to preserve them pending the ascertainment of their owner ; e.g . |
| 4 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 5 | There were traps to catch them along the way . |
| 6 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 7 | Most parents of children at poorer schools already know about those schools , though they do not have the information to confront the governors , teachers and heads to urge them of the need to improve the school . |
| 8 | In plating , components are dropped into various solutions to coat them with a metal such as zinc or aluminium . |
| 9 | Although there is much in these three books to put them in the category of Ruritanian adventure , Scott may be a stronger influence . |
| 10 | They return in delight but with sadness too , for even the memory fades because there is nothing in the rational mind with which the ideas may be linked and there are no images to fix them in the memory . |
| 11 | In Stafford , soldiers were forbidden from bring their families into the town unless they had enough funds to keep them for a quarter of a year , due to the large number of camp followers registering for charity . |
| 12 | Hundreds of black-headed gulls were also joining in the feast of freshly hatching insects , paddling over the waves to snatch them from the surface , whilst in the Island Bay we came upon three superb black terns , dipping and turning over the water . |
| 13 | A NEW CULTURE FOR PEARL Pearl Assurance is one of the companies that are implementing IT solutions to take them beyond the year 2000 |
| 14 | However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers . |
| 15 | She tried to see if he were concealed among the group hanging around near the circolo , but without lifting her eyes to scan them like a strumpet . |
| 16 | A treaty was agreed in 1490 , although a concession was made to the Venetians to exempt them from the Staple . |
| 17 | Sitting in the lotus position they jumped into the air using their thighs to propel them off the ground . |
| 18 | They should ask two academic referees to recommend them to the Principal without waiting for any request from her . |
| 19 | The factory survey found that one quarter of Japan 's biggest factories used robots and that a second quarter had plans to install them by the end of 1982 . |
| 20 | We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century . |
| 21 | The majority of Athenian citizens were working men who needed the meagre payment that was eventually made for carrying out public duties to compensate them for the loss of daily earnings . |
| 22 | The Tree Spirits were clinging to the black iron pipes that ran along the sides of the floor , using them as levers and pulleys to help them across the floor . |
| 23 | Push dry straw under the ripening fruits to lift them off the soil and deter slugs . |
| 24 | Designs based on these principles are known as linear voltage regulators to distinguish them from the kind of regulator we are going to investigate in this article . |
| 25 | For around 500 years , man and dog have pitted their wits against ducks to trap them in a decoy net . |
| 26 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 27 | We dragged the man free and Warren drove the car at the dogs to box them in the alleyway so they could not escape . |
| 28 | The Scottish Enterprise Foundation , a consortium of companies and public bodies formed last November to encourage new business in Scotland , is inviting students with bright ideas to submit them to a panel of entrepreneurs and experts . |
| 29 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 30 | Doom Divers take their opportunity very seriously , practising for weeks by jumping off increasingly taller rocks , strengthening their arms by flapping their wings as they run about in circles , and getting trolls to throw them into the air . |