Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space . |
| 2 | How do you , friends , change a structure which is still the old structure with a civil service , a security and everything that goes with it and move to one of democracy and justice because if you move too rapidly and you do not make concessions and you ignore the terrible power of the right wing with all the military might at its disposal you can very easily create in South Africa a Lebanon or indeed , yes , a Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’ |
| 5 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |
| 6 | The broadcast blade split into mirroring fragments and she kicked the red tube of its handle at Zuleika 's head . |
| 7 | This is a , you know , this is the third one which is er was similar to others we 've had , the steps and we had the other door and a few steps down , and then , this is all similar types of photographs and all taken from different sort of angles . |
| 8 | He raised the bone knife to the wooden lips and she felt the first gentle cut . |
| 9 | First of all the major documentation we 've got is the contract and there we have six companies and we have the same contract for all six . |
| 10 | At this point it is sufficient to state that the estimates are based on high quality data supplied by The Scotch Whisky Association 's nine largest companies and they provide the first published attempt to quantify the wider economic significance of this important industry . |
| 11 | They build reproductions of popular fifties models and they use the authentic glow-plug or diesel engines — some of which have become collectors ' items . |
| 12 | They had the same size shoes and they wore the same clothes quite often . |
| 13 | There was a greater preponderance and variety of coloured shells at exposed sites and she regarded the white colour of sheltered enclaves as an adaptation to resist high temperatures . |
| 14 | I 'm not against the concept of co-opted members and I believe that they could add a useful dimension to any authority 's work , but apart from the obligatory brace of businessmen and I accept the Right Honourable and Noble Viscount Lord Whitelaw 's phrase and I quote powerful reference to a broad approach and new ideas and a fight against crime , but apart from the the brace er , er of such business people , they should surely come from representative sections of those communities which the authorities serve . |
| 15 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 16 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 17 | Well a variety of views and I think the only generalization I can make about weddings is that you ca n't generalize about weddings , some people think they 're wonderful , some people are sceptical , people have done their own er variations on weddings . |
| 18 | ‘ It was the early hours and I feared the worst , that a family member or friend had been hurt . |
| 19 | Good RE teaching is about the historical facts and the literature of the main world religions and it allows the young to study the beliefs and attitudes held by the adherents of these religions and also by humanists . |
| 20 | Robins are sensible and careful birds and they love the little ones . ’ |
| 21 | This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks . |
| 22 | Take away or subsidise all nuclear power stations and you lose the commercial logic of the privatisation plans . |
| 23 | John Carwelti argues that certain types of formula-stories , ‘ Adventure , Mystery and Romance ’ , must be judged by their own standards and conventions and he deplores the literary assumption that this type of writing is ‘ subliterature ’ . |
| 24 | That has improved in recent years and I congratulate the local authority and the local schools and colleges on that . |
| 25 | We proceeded without lights and I did the whole thing by radar with my eyes standing out like organ stops . |
| 26 | We could mobilise the resources and we had the moral drive . |
| 27 | like you say you just get onto that right and it 's , that 's three hundred yards and you get the next one that 's two hundred yards and a hundred yards until you stop , to the junction |
| 28 | In fact , 75 per cent of menopausal women suffer from flushes and they constitute the commonest reason for women turning to HRT . |
| 29 | The outbreak of war saw Bennett still in the navy blue of Imperial Airways and he heard the Prime Minister 's broadcast , declaring war on Germany , with much the same feeling as most of us who remember it . |
| 30 | So I found myself in one of those " Catch 22 " situations and I chose the lesser one , and the one I thought I could defend . |