Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 2 | Without stores or adequate sails they suffered great hardships , but eventually arrived in south-west Newfoundland , where Clerke knew the French Basques had fishing stations . |
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| 4 | Curiously , the Phaeacians , the legendary people in the Odyssey who sound like the Minoans in so many ways , were described as the kings of sea-craft ; they were also credited with sailing galleys with fifty oars , in other words , larger ships than Bury credits the Homeric Greeks with possessing . |
| 5 | Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself at the moment , Moss knows that the provision of a pervasive technology standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future . |
| 6 | Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself , Moss knows that the providing a standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future . |
| 7 | Marx 's interpretation of the Paris Commune was , as Lichtheim noted , to become a Leninist shibboleth ( Lichtheim 1964 , p. 119 ) .2 Indeed , Lenin did more than Marx to contrast the administrative principles of the Commune with the bureaucratic workings of the bourgeois state . |
| 8 | They were carriers to the Southern Railway although Suttons handled the smaller parcels . |
| 9 | If Northgate ignored the bureaucratic niceties of prospecting licences , it also ignored the legal niceties of land ownership and trespass . |
| 10 | If Edgar speaks the last words , they appear a sort of reproof to Albany while Edgar assumes authority over the hopes of the future . |
| 11 | Geminis have dual personalities and I think you have the best part of their nature , while Dana has the rotten bits . ’ |
| 12 | For the moment she busied herself making a fresh pot of tea , while Karen cleared the dirty plates and made room for their toast and marmalade . |
| 13 | The three explorers set off beside the brook , while Hazel led the other rabbits across the field and up to the edge of the woodland . |
| 14 | While Strathclyde records the highest numbers of the most serious offences , the survey highlights that it is not alone in suffering steep rises in violent crime . |
| 15 | The Arab-Israeli peace talks have been suspended since Israel deported the 415 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza to south Lebanon . |
| 16 | Janice took their orders while Gillian studied the two men . |
| 17 | On returning to Vienna at the end of September , Constanze immediately left for Baden , while Mozart put the finishing touches to The Magic Flute . |
| 18 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |
| 19 | Since Weber analysed the organizational requirements of the capitalist state , this influence has increased as those characteristics of bureaucracy which he recognized as being a basis for political power have become more pronounced . |
| 20 | She handed Jack the syringe with the long needle , and he slid it neatly between the ribs and into the heart while Kath injected the other drugs into the giving set in his arm . |
| 21 | His argument was that Tacitus had chosen the wrong period and provided bad examples for princes , whereas Polybius introduced the modern politicians to a noble period of ancient history . |
| 22 | Together we brought round a pile of boards and I started chopping while Laura fed the slender faggots to the flame , and Edward tinkered with the loose bricks that controlled the air supply . |
| 23 | The plan is for Solvay to take over the hydrogen peroxide and persalt business , with turnover of £340m pa , while Laporte takes the organic peroxides and persulphates , worth about £65m pa . |
| 24 | Rohan and Jacques had arrived when the two girls returned , and were sipping their aperitifs while Monique put the finishing touches to her meal . |
| 25 | Will the Minister commit himself and the Government to the development of the coal industry in Scotland and say more about the Government 's intentions for Monktonhall , lest Yorkshire face the same problems as Scotland , as the Bishop of Durham made clear this weekend ? |
| 26 | There was silence in the library for several moments , whilst Joan digested the astonishing facts . |
| 27 | Lewis drove and hooked stylishly for an hour when opportunity offered , before Cairns showed the close fieldsmen how to do it by taking a superb diving catch at gully . |
| 28 | It was a good five minutes before Sharpe noticed the French Dragoons who followed him . |
| 29 | After Cleveland came the 1989 Children Act . |
| 30 | Kerry exclaimed as Lisa joined the other members of staff in the fabrics store-room to have a look at the damage . |