Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a plaintiff had brought an action in rem , however , his primary interest was in recovering his property , and in recognition of this the jurists devised the clausula arbitraria to assist him . |
| 2 | Their report , ‘ Quality in Traditional Housing ’ , indicated that half the faults concerned the external walls , roofs , windows and doors and related to durability and performance . |
| 3 | One new size has replaced two old ones , making it impossible for half the customers to get a correct fit . |
| 4 | Approximately half the respondents described the first stage of the process : how interest in attending courses arose . |
| 5 | inserting common paragraphs , for example if half the students make the same mistake , it is useful for the marker to prepare a paragraph explaining the error , and to paste this into each of the documents he is returning to the errant students . |
| 6 | By this time , according to the findings of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , more than three-quarters of the German people regarded the war as lost , and for a large proportion of these the raids played a major part in their loss of hope . |
| 7 | It was pointed out earlier that one difficulty in using inverted files is the need to deal with all the records possessing a given attribute at the same time , so that a great deal of working space is required in main storage . |
| 8 | This would take the form of one department being responsible for all the services affecting a particular client group . |
| 9 | The really weird thing is that when all the strings have an equal tension , they do n't feel like they 're equally tensioned . |
| 10 | Without any hesitation all the girls chose the correct shirts belonging to , respectively , Jim Foster , Stewart Ayres , Dave Jolly , Gavin Davies , James Burt and Matthew John . |
| 11 | The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is the most far reaching of all the statutes having the widest impact on working conditions , its aim being to secure the health , safety and welfare of all at work wherever they may be employed . |
| 12 | The ‘ Load of Old Rubbish ’ team and ‘ Medau Bunnies ’ won prizes , and all the teams completed the 20 minute hard-working session . |
| 13 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 14 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 15 | We have been working towards establishing a group where all the members have an equal say . |
| 16 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 17 | Immediately you touched those bones , and all the others did the same , laughing and jostling to get at the coffin . |
| 18 | But all the others demonstrated the unshakeable freemasonry of actors in a crisis . |
| 19 | He says all the thefts followed a similar pattern . |
| 20 | Victory in Italy against all the odds offers the new champ all kinds of exciting possibilities . |
| 21 | C. In Cheshire and Merseyside the directors of ICI and Shell Oil have found all the advantages to build the main chemical industries of Britain . |
| 22 | In the minority of homes ( a quarter ) where all the residents had the same doctor , visiting rates were higher ( 16.8 a year on average ) than in the majority ( three-quarters ) where the residents could have different doctors ( 9.5 ) . |
| 23 | I remember at the time that all the crews felt a great deal happier being so much nearer the rest of the Lancs and Halifaxes , and no longer were in great danger of our oppoes dropping bombs and incendiaries on us . |
| 24 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |
| 25 | What is clear from the above account is that all the transactions covering the 17 months to May 1990 are inextricably linked . |
| 26 | According to the FAO , two consecutive years of drought had led to reduced harvests in all the countries bordering the Sahelian area , while late rains in Southern Africa had delayed cereal planting , thus increasing the likelihood of lower yields . |
| 27 | Again , all the dishes contained the same scented food , but the bees mainly went to the dish that the first bee had been to . |
| 28 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
| 29 | All the companies obtain a small number of such reports . |
| 30 | In order to establish whether an agreement is registrable the following steps should be followed : ( 1 ) Consider whether you have copies of all the agreements comprising the entire transaction . |