Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case studies below illustrate how the aims and objectives of the curriculum and the needs and abilities of users have influenced the design of three databases produced in schools who are participating in the MISLIP project . |
| 2 | Readers who were detecting in the late 1970s and 1980s will remember the range of excellent specialist diggers designed and manufactured by Buffallo Tools of Rayleigh in Essex . |
| 3 | THE long-mocked idea of reparations to compensate black Americans for the slavery experienced by their ancestors is now before the US Congress , and its supporters say the $1.25 billion package to compensate Japanese-Americans who were interned during the second world war has created a legal precedent . |
| 4 | Dr Pamela Horn has estimated that about a fifth of the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire lacemakers who were recorded in the 1851 census were under the age of fifteen . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ I answered , glad to have his attention , ‘ those two messengers who were killed by the Maillotins . |
| 6 | It is , therefore , not surprising to find in Luke that it is the Jews who are blamed for the death of Jesus . |
| 7 | Mosley 's turn to political anti-semitism was signalled by his Albert Hall meeting in October 1934 when he attacked both the ‘ big ’ Jews who were seen as a threat to the nation 's economy and the ‘ little ’ Jews who allegedly swamped the cultural identity of localities where they settled . |
| 8 | It is only fair to add that some lawyers play exactly the opposite role , persuading clients who are itching for a zero sum fight that they would do better to reach a nonzero sum settlement out of court . |
| 9 | When the fear eased , she had banged on the locked wooden door , but there had been no response , apart from the laughter of the guards who were stationed on the other side . |
| 10 | Throughout his career with Rangers , Sunderland , Nottingham Forest and Scotland , Baxter befriended players cast in a similar mould , that army of renegades who were born with a natural gift for football but were easily disenchanted with the disciplinary structures of the professional game . |
| 11 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 12 | Men from the British cruisers London and Curlew protected the foreigners who were concentrated in the neutral zone of the Hotels Reid 's , Atlantic and Savoy . |
| 13 | For more than 30 years Brooklands was the home of hundreds of races , the scene of many record attempts , and the testing ground for manufacturers who were restricted to the 20mph speed limit on Britain 's roads at the time . |
| 14 | Marie turned , hearing noises behind her , then broke into a smile , bowing to the two elderly gentlemen who were passing in the corridor . |
| 15 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 16 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 17 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their application to UCAS through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London listed in the UCAS handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania , Thailand . |
| 18 | A change related to the smaller number of candidates is perhaps the increase over 1973 in the number of candidates who were elected with a quota at Stage I , 25 against 17 . |
| 19 | Phased out by 1980 , they used to bridge the gap between the maintained and independent sectors , being grammar schools which took fee-paying pupils but also provided free places for able children from poorer homes who were financed by a direct grant from the government . |
| 20 | The last word must go to Uniteds magnificent supporters who have supported the club so vociferously , ALMOST drowning out the 500 Leeds supporters who were allowed into the ‘ Theatre of Dreams ’ last September . |
| 21 | … the flotsam and jetsam , the people … the kids who 're failing in the system ( and ) uh ( the ) kids who , who 're … probably successful in the system but really just need to talk to somebody occasionally , y' know uh . |
| 22 | Defendants who are convicted in the Crown Court are sentenced by a Crown Court judge . |
| 23 | ‘ I want a group of youngsters who are committed to the cause . |
| 24 | The big city was a powerful draw to youngsters who were looking for the chance to better themselves . |
| 25 | ‘ The whole of Teesside will benefit from having a cleaner river , not just the 200,000 people living in the Stockton and western Middlesbrough areas who are served by the works , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The sight and sound of Scott 's musical message will infuriate parents and teachers in these areas who are campaigning for a place at the dinner table . |
| 27 | And party-goers who 're looking for a good time are being warned they 'll find nothing but trouble at illegal raves . |
| 28 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 29 | In fact , blacks used the Titanic disaster as a symbolic setting for the confrontation between the privileged whites and the poverty-stricken blacks who were excluded from the vessel ( Levine , 1977 , p.427 ) . |
| 30 | Is it not sometimes the judges who are overwhelmed by the evidence ? |