Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Links also occur between the two optic lobes and run from the medial part of the protocerebrum to each medulla separately . |
| 3 | In the model of liberal democracy , interests are aggregated through political parties and expressed within the parliamentary system . |
| 4 | The traditional geometric values of the model are handled and checked by the functional relationships and used in the pictorial constructions . |
| 5 | Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They will be reviewed by the regional associations and submitted to the Central Committee at its next meeting ( 26 June to 2 July 1992 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Outside , the early sun slanted across the mountains and filtered through the delicate green tracery of the forest . |
| 19 | Deeper still nameless horrors crawled into the old Dwarf mines and settled in the long-abandoned depths . |
| 20 | The musical interlude went on for ten minutes and finished with the mad figures collapsing on the ground . |
| 21 | Economists , the statistics profession , trade unions and Opposition politicians all pledged support for the idea of a national council which is being promoted by eminent statisticians and considered by the Royal Statistical Society . |
| 22 | On May 22-23 a 48-hour general strike , in protest against the recessionary effects of the government 's anti-inflation policies and led by the Central Unica de Trabajadores ( CUT ) , failed to secure wide support . |
| 23 | The mortuary was a one-slab affair , intended , I think , for coroners ' cases and situated in the large council car-park next to the public conveniences . |
| 24 | This team effort involved all five shifts and cut through the 10-year old manufacturing practices . |
| 25 | I look around at the milling people , imagining we 'll be split up into smaller groups and led through the blank doors to sit in armchairs and watch a TV set on some kind of plinth . |
| 26 | Defeat for the Welsh All Blacks , particularly at the fortress that is The Gnoll , is a rare occurrence , hated by the players , frowned upon by the coaches and detested by the increasing army of fans who continue to pack the ground . |
| 27 | Push halved new potatoes , cut sides down , on to sticks and set on the hot surface . |
| 28 | The report considers which level of geographical unit is most suited to analysing regional problems in the Community from the three levels defined in the mid-1970s and subsumed under the French acronym , NUTS levels I , II and III . |
| 29 | The savings are taken up by the government in the form of higher taxes and transferred to the redundant workers . |
| 30 | In 1974 the structure changed and they were taken from local authorities and amalgamated within the new health authorities — first area , and then later ( 1982 ) district , health authorities . |