Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where coins disappeared in the lining ; |
| 2 | Gainsharing is favoured in many US hospitals , where surveys highlighted in the RNC report show that managers and nurses feel PRP is a potential demotivator . |
| 3 | Where invoices recorded on the statement have not been received or have been mislaid , copies will be required from the supplier . |
| 4 | Perhaps a draw was more than Rangers deserved on the night . |
| 5 | The Fifties graduate mothers were no more inclined to argue with the infallibility of Freud than monsignori argued with the infallibility of the Pope . |
| 6 | He held out his hand and the Mason crushed it inside his own until tears stood in the boy 's eyes . |
| 7 | Erm some people around , particularly a the Asian population around w then became worried about what sort of support they would actually get from , the police in real terms if outsiders came into the area . |
| 8 | Mr Justice Cooke said that if receivers went beyond the point where they had completed their duties , they might be liable to account as trespassers . |
| 9 | If politicians came to the conclusion that education was too important to be left to the educators , bear in mind the massive input of public resources , education 's failure to demonstrate significant improvement of standards , poor marketing , uncertain professional leadership and the fact that every year youngsters leave school ignorant of much they might reasonably be expected to know and lacking skills that could have been acquired in 11 years of schooling . |
| 10 | I felt I did n't need to see Moby unless matters deteriorated in the weeks after Jeanne contacted me . |
| 11 | Within days , for instance , I 'd broken up with my girlfriend , because things came to the surface that I had been neatly burying away for years . |
| 12 | The symptoms fade , moreover , whereas Pythagoras rejoiced in the peculiarity of a golden thigh until he died . |
| 13 | To disentangle the yeomanry from the middling and lower gentry — and indeed from the richest peasants — is more difficult , but this is in the nature of things since yeomen emerged from the ranks of the husbandmen , while the gentry did not form a closed caste , and in many cases there was little to choose between their respective scales of wealth . |
| 14 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 15 | The number of strips held by households were larger and fewer than around Kursk , but distances between houses and plots were even larger , since peasants lived alongside the water-courses away from their land . |
| 16 | Taxis waited in a long queue to ferry them away , while others struggled up the stairs with cases or bags , determined to make their way by other means . |
| 17 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 18 | According to the Centre for Pontian Studies in Athens 350,000 Pontians were massacred in 1916-23 ; around 1,000,000 Pontians fled to Greece while others escaped to the Caucasus , only to be exiled to central Asia and Siberia under Stalin . |
| 19 | Some couples were moving away while others waited for the band to strike up again . |
| 20 | She came to It via an employment agency , and , while others slept on the floor , worked , argued , or posed , she would work through the clerical , jobs , type , organize . |
| 21 | Some of the gang members got into the car while others sat on the vehicle 's bonnet . |
| 22 | Servants hurried in and out of kitchens with pitchers of water while others sat in the shade whiling their time away with dice and other games of hazard . |
| 23 | She did not know how to assert herself here ; she felt out of her depth , floating in the warm limbo of the pool while swifts swooped at the water . |
| 24 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 25 | The case against the accountants and bankers began after discrepancies emerged at the end of 1984 between the profit forecast for Francis , drawn up during the acquisition , and the company 's annual report and accounts audited by Coopers & Lybrand . |
| 26 | The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er |
| 27 | In Video Plan 6 we saw roleplay introduced after silent viewing and before students listened to the dialogue . |
| 28 | The planning application was turned down after residents complained about the probability of noise , smoke and smell from standing locomotives in the platform . |
| 29 | This packaging of living material into discrete vehicles became such a salient and dominant feature that , when biologists arrived on the scene and started asking questions about life , their questions were mostly about vehicles — individual organisms . |
| 30 | England withdrew from Fifa in 1928 , as discussions began for the organisation of the first World Cup competition , and remained disdainfully on the sidelines until 1950 , when England 's ‘ superiority ’ complex was quickly dissipated by a 1–0 defeat in a pool match against the United States . |