Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cassettes were reviewed and discussed in type-written fanzines and distributed in the same manner as cassettes , hand to hand . |
| 2 | The women work and eat and sleep in an atmosphere thick with impalpable hairs and tainted with the sickly smell of the skins … the average daily earnings are 1/1d . |
| 3 | The history of religions is a history of intolerance and cruelty towards non-believers , and the love extends only to those who are believers and loved by the same supernatural being . |
| 4 | ‘ We are starting now , love David ’ , said the first sheet , which was promptly glued to the T of the great , gold SALT 'S sign hijacked from the mill offices and hoisted above the 15 by 9 ½ft frame divided into 144 sections for the fax picture . |
| 5 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 6 | They should be regarded as basic guidelines and adapted to the many possible variables , such as type of employment , level of responsibility , age/experience of the candidates . |
| 7 | Links also occur between the two optic lobes and run from the medial part of the protocerebrum to each medulla separately . |
| 8 | In the model of liberal democracy , interests are aggregated through political parties and expressed within the parliamentary system . |
| 9 | Some , mainly those of war time subjects and taken in the 30 's and 40's were given to the National Portrait Gallery , but the best were retained by the V. and A. |
| 10 | The traditional geometric values of the model are handled and checked by the functional relationships and used in the pictorial constructions . |
| 11 | The Great River swept sluggishly through meads that were aflame with buttercups and dotted with the last patches of melting snow . |
| 12 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 13 | Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years . |
| 14 | The United States resignation from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation ( UNESCO ) highlighted the problems of those large , universal membership organisations , loosely related to the United Nations and known as the Specialised Agencies . |
| 15 | She screwed a pair of gold hoops into her earlobes , moistened her lips and pasted on the impersonal smile that had served her so well during her months on the catwalk . |
| 16 | Forty of the escapees were killed by local hunters but the remainder appear to have survived by hiding in inaccessible rocky areas and adapted to the local terrain , which is similar to their natural habitat in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is evident that women were also under-represented in senior posts and concentrated in the lower posts available . |
| 18 | They will be reviewed by the regional associations and submitted to the Central Committee at its next meeting ( 26 June to 2 July 1992 ) . |
| 19 | ( The election rules required soundings to be taken among constituency associations and reported to the 1922 Committee . |
| 20 | Ideally , an approach is required which will narrow the focus of the " act of identity " in such a way that individual choices like the one just mentioned can be seen as part of systematic behaviour patterns which are simultaneously typical of speakers ' own fictive speech communities and conditioned by the immediate context of the interaction in which they occur . |
| 21 | Dividends , which are what the shareholder is paid for the use of his money , are recommended by the directors and authorized by the annual general meeting of shareholders . |
| 22 | Dividends , which are what the shareholder is paid for the use of his money , are recommended by the directors and authorized by the annual general meeting of shareholders . |
| 23 | No one could call Graham Little , our Bergführer and former Mountaineering Council of Scotland president , in the first flush of youth , but the man 's well over six feet and built like the proverbial … house , which does help . |
| 24 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 25 | But even as she flung out a hand to save herself she was whisked off her feet and pulled into the secure haven of fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 26 | BL came to rely on large cash hand-outs and subsidies , and eventually had to be cut down into its constituent elements and returned to the private sector . |
| 27 | In 1941 a bomb fell on the College and it was thought to be the end of Halling Man but the bones were found with the relative animal bones and sent to the British Museum ( Natural History ) . |
| 28 | Outside , the early sun slanted across the mountains and filtered through the delicate green tracery of the forest . |
| 29 | Deeper still nameless horrors crawled into the old Dwarf mines and settled in the long-abandoned depths . |
| 30 | The musical interlude went on for ten minutes and finished with the mad figures collapsing on the ground . |