Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , because it is the weight distribution rather than the frequency distribution which determines sediment behaviour during transport and deposition the weight of the pebbles falling into each size class should be used for the purposes of comparison . |
| 2 | The overseas office of an MNP is in a slightly different position ; the solicitors practising from that office ( including all the solicitor partners , whether resident overseas or not ) are governed by the Solicitors ' Overseas Practice Rules 1990 , and solicitor partners will be responsible for ensuring the office 's compliance . |
| 3 | Those summer nights will stay with me for ever , with the moon illuminating the darkness and the birds calling to each other in the trees at sunset . |
| 4 | Everything comes to life in the summer with the long days , the moon to illuminate the darkness , and the birds calling to each other in the trees . |
| 5 | Kenneth Langford said the noise of the prisoners shouting to each other at night was ‘ not too bad ’ at the moment , but that the proposed new blocks would bring the prisoners too close to the rear of his property . |
| 6 | But the sheer effort required to gather and analyse data systematically , let alone the lobbying activities to initiate change , often exceeds the capacity of the groups working on this issue . |
| 7 | Many of the cases falling within this offence may involve serious fault — where there is racing on the highway , for example , or a prolonged course of very bad driving , or bad driving in order to avoid apprehension . |
| 8 | So that when one entered one would find the pictures talking to each other and you would enter and listen . |
| 9 | The way in which the 80 bp fragment stimulates transcription suggests that the proteins binding to this fragment work like activators ( see 23 ) . |
| 10 | Oncoming carts appeared in the gloom , the drivers calling to each other , one moving over for the other . |
| 11 | Two horse-drawn buses careered down the middle of the road , the drivers racing against each other , scattering everything in their way , including the piles of rubbish which lay stinking in the heat . |
| 12 | This was infrequent in the units participating in this study , but in centres where the relative surgical and endoscopic expertise is different such a situation may well arise more commonly . |
| 13 | One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life . |
| 14 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 15 | Conversely , a significant proportion of the companies operating in this country are off-shoots of enterprises whose head offices are situated abroad . |
| 16 | Answer guide : A sole proprietorship has one owner whereas a partner has at least two , partners are jointly and severally liable for the debts of the partnership , there needs to be separate accounts kept of the transactions relating to each partner , agreements need to be reached regarding profit shares etc . |
| 17 | Karate is just one of the sports featuring in this weekend 's Varsity Games in Oxford , when the Dark Blues battle it out with Cambridge for sporting honours . |
| 18 | The exceptions relating to this section are very important and refer to a number of activities usually carried out whilst on holiday . |
| 19 | I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other . |
| 20 | The contract can not be frustrated by the goods perishing after that moment . |
| 21 | Indeed , before one can decide what action is appropriate one requires an understanding of the social context in which one is acting and an interpretation of the actions occurring in that context . |
| 22 | Welcome back : Still to come , the teams preparing for this Bank Holiday 's Wye Raft Race . |
| 23 | However , when we had the grant announcement , it also announced that the conditions attaching to that grant , would be announced separately . |
| 24 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 25 | The judges thus concluded that detailed excursions into the epidemiological evidence were by and large immaterial to the matter at hand : the question of whether there was deception involved in the statement that there was ‘ little evidence ’ and the imputations arising from this statement for the general thrust of meaning in the advertisement as a whole . |
| 26 | Metropolitan Police Motion made , and Question proposed , That the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis do take care that during the Session of Parliament the passages through the streets leading to this House be kept free and open and that no obstruction be permitted to hinder the passage of Members to and from this House , and that no disorder be allowed in Westminster Hall , or in the passages leading to this House , during the Sitting of Parliament , and that there be no annoyance therein or thereabouts ; and that the Serjeant at Arms attending this House do communicate this Order to the Commissioner aforesaid . |
| 27 | Conflicts spread over thousands of years have still not resolved the problems arising from that claim , and justification of it from the scriptures , has proved completely ineffective , and surely this is bound to happen , for the human race , whether in part or as a whole will never meekly submit to having a religion or political system simply thrust upon it . |
| 28 | Is that what I wrote er right What that 's what I wrote but what I said was , Each of the acids reacting with this starting |
| 29 | Secondly , the FRED proposes that the rights attaching to each class of share be disclosed in summary form . |
| 30 | But what are the Humpbacks saying to each other across perhaps hundreds of miles of ocean ? |