Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he did concede that " there were indications that some activities and individuals might have been motivated to prevent success in constitutional goals " and that " some activities led to the deaths of people " . |
| 2 | A few hens pecked between the cobbles and rabbits scuffled in hutches along one of the dry-stone walls . |
| 3 | A few grenades chucked into the crowds outside polling stations would have quickly spread panic . |
| 4 | A few soldiers ran down the steps for a fag . |
| 5 | Anthony Drew , the vicar of Polruan , was a good example of the effect such conflicts had upon the clergy . |
| 6 | The universal feeling used to be that such books belonged in the libraries they came from . |
| 7 | In almost every one of the analyses that he showed , the primary enabling inventions that led to such advances lay in the materials field . |
| 8 | Many different species with such structures swam in the lagoons beside the Gogo reefs , together with other more antiquated kinds . |
| 9 | The question was whether or not such payments fell within the Regulations . |
| 10 | Difficult to know how much children knew about the facts of life these days , and anyway it was n't her business to enlighten this one . |
| 11 | There were no significant differences between the groups in bone area , osteoid perimeter , or mineralising perimeter ( table ) , and 95% of these values lay within the ranges reported for normal postmenopausal women . |
| 12 | But once the contents of these plans got around the rumours died down and people began to say that the family must be coming back . ’ |
| 13 | These projects arose from the recommendations in the report of the Cockcroft Committee on the teaching of mathematics published at the beginning of 1982 . |
| 14 | These steps complied with the requirements of the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules to which Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has referred . |
| 15 | These considerations led to the decisions about the modes of assessment used in the project which are described in Chapter 4 ( pp.41–102 ) together with the results of the testing . |
| 16 | I think the dashing strain in these emigres appealed to the countrymen of Henri IV , Bernadotte , Foch ( and our own Fieldmarshal Alanbrooke ) , and Dumas 's d'Artagnan . |
| 17 | Practically all the work of these composers lay in the fields of Mass , motet , and chanson . |
| 18 | But these studies looked at the interactions between species only to explore the process by which evolution produced complex adaptive structures . |
| 19 | Some of these issues surfaced in the responses of academics to the question : Would you favour an increase or decrease in the proportion of students taking combined/joint degrees ? |
| 20 | The whole burden of these cuts fell on the colleges of education partly because , as we have seen , their numbers could be swiftly regulated and partly because they were still for the most part institutions predominantly concerned with teacher education . |
| 21 | Political pressure for these latter proposals came from the police themselves , who now formed a strong lobby for increased state regulation . |
| 22 | From this more harmonious base the counsellor can attempt to move the family on to consider when family relationships began to falter , what the circumstances were , and how all parties felt about the issues at that time . |
| 23 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |
| 24 | Soon the Jacobite infantry were in full flight , with William himself leading the pursuit across seven miles [ 11 km ] of countryside , where many stragglers died amid the dykes and hedges , though quarter was , on his order , given to all who asked for it . |
| 25 | Many bishops emerged as the saviours of their cities as they arranged for famine relief and secured the ransom of prisoners during the years of crisis . |
| 26 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 27 | Historically , the Christian churches had exceptionally close links with education : indeed in the early nineteenth century almost all the impetus for setting up schools and teacher-training establishments and extending schooling to all children came from the churches . |
| 28 | Many lords profited from the tolls charged on travellers and merchandise , and their castles were often sited at points where roads or rivers met , and where merchants and pilgrims congregated . |
| 29 | More attention , therefore , has been paid to the process by which rank-and-file intelligenty were recruited into the underground ; the interaction between their ideological development and the popular pressure for change welling up from below ; the social composition and structure of the revolutionary organizations they created ; and the impact which those organizations had upon the masses they sought to represent . |
| 30 | His decision stated he had made assumptions about the lease which were held to be incorrect , and those errors resulted in the premises being valued on a fundamentally wrong basis . |