Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 2 | This Board , whose role is by no means a formality , as it has to vet every one of the artists shown at the exhibition , is now made up of people who reflect the old groupings : seven Christian Democrats , six Socialists , two PDS ( formerly Communist ) , one Liberal and one Social Democrat . |
| 3 | But as opposed to the exhibition of the Societe Normande de Peinture Moderne of the previous year , the majority of the artists showing at the Section d'Or were Cubists or painters directly influenced by the movement , and the effect made must have been concentrated . |
| 4 | If there is an important and difficult question of law , however , I do not anticipate that senior judges will either feel ‘ demeaned ’ or take umbrage at the possibility of the courts looking at the question again on fuller argument . |
| 5 | The courts look at the effect that costs will have on that person 's financial position and decide on the facts whether severe financial hardship will be suffered . |
| 6 | The ions appearing at the foot of the most recently reconnected field lines would be more energetic than the corresponding ions on field lines that were opened by a previous pulse of reconnection . |
| 7 | When the edge of the shadow cone cast by one atom crosses the position of a neighbouring atom , the ions concentrated at the edge of the cone make direct collisions with the neighbouring atom and are back scattered . |
| 8 | Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war |
| 9 | So do make sure that at least one of the contacts listed at the foot of the release is around to answer questions . |
| 10 | Of the ‘ preferred ’ fruit trees , the distributions of the adult trees of three of them closely resembled the seed shadows made by the tamarins in a way not unlike that of the birds mentioned at the end of section 6.2.1 . |
| 11 | If the proposals announced at the end of last year by the Lord chancellor go through , up to 12 million people could find that they are not eligible or can not afford legal aid after April 1st . |
| 12 | Interestingly , The Times reported at the time that not enough professional people served on juries , and that manual workers and the unemployed did not ‘ represent a cross section of society ’ made up by juries . |
| 13 | ‘ As the rules stood at the time , the League had no choice but to order the game to be replayed over a full 90 minutes . |
| 14 | The three whose costs were unexpectedly low at second assessment were exceptional cases for the reasons stated at the foot of the table . |
| 15 | Equally , the management of motivation in education has been problematic — for many of the reasons identified at the start of this chapter . |
| 16 | The role of councillors would be strengthened : they would sit on the local bodies armed with the knowledge of the policies adopted at the centre of the council . |
| 17 | The spurs ripped at the Muslim 's bird and drew blood on its back , just above the wing . |
| 18 | The researchers looked at the amplitude of the brain-waves and the latency of the brain 's response to the stimulus . |
| 19 | Three fours eight , nine , ten queen high the pairs stuck at the end though dear . |
| 20 | The model boats in his room , both racing yachts on which his father had crewed , varnished and painted , detailed painstaking work which was accurate down to the nameplates fixed at the stern , Caprimo , Sea Witch . |
| 21 | Will the period be extended , or will the trade union be almost forced to concede what the employers want at the end of 16 months ? |
| 22 | To get back to the ponies mentioned at the start of this article . |
| 23 | I could feel the hairs rise at the back of my neck as I said , ‘ You 've seen her ? ’ |
| 24 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 25 | The animals shuddered at the word unpleasantness . |
| 26 | Handrails most often come loose when the wallplugs fail at the point where they are fixed to a wall on a bracket . |
| 27 | She told him she was too busy to attend to the matter , whilst the guests gave up all pretence of looking at the pictures to stare at the intruder . |
| 28 | There was a tight thicket of new , thorny growth in the clearing , a bird darting between the branches picking at the red and blue berries that hung from the twigs . |
| 29 | Among the solutions proposed at the conference were increased emphasis on sustainable logging and the production of finished wood products , a halt to exports of raw logs , retraining loggers and employing them on repairing damaged forests and rivers . |
| 30 | The cars collided at the junction of Tredworth Road and High Street just after midnight on Sunday . |