Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource-base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ‘ raw materials ’ to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . |
| 2 | It contained representatives of more than 20 political parties who had contested the first free multiparty elections in Romania since 1937 [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 3 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 4 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 5 | TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award . |
| 6 | The primitive inn that catered for travellers who had missed the last ferry is now a modern hotel , and commercial interests have been attracted by the growing number of tourists . |
| 7 | The energetic soldiers who had survived the first war were in active command , but there was a great residue of staff officers from the first war who did not fight , who determined the spirit of the administration . |