Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 2 | They were ponderous and unfunny , and never reached an end before some new miracle in the audience brought the crowds milling round the stage , shouting and pushing and throwing gifts . |
| 3 | They must then choose their wave again to carry them out and up with the swell so they can seize the ropes dangling from the platform . |
| 4 | It is all too easy to find that the only properly planned meetings are the ones at which exchange of contracts and completion take place and those are meetings which are usually orchestrated by the solicitors acting for the buyer and the seller . |
| 5 | The solicitors at the end of the chain are asked to release their contract for a specified period of time to the solicitors acting for the buyer next in line . |
| 6 | There is no requirement for costs payable out of the bankrupt 's estate , be they the costs of the petitioning creditor or the costs of the solicitors acting for the trustee , to be taxed ( r 7.34 ) . |
| 7 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 8 | While the institutions rushing for the exit have been the small British firms , the institutions entering these markets — in addition to a number of major British banks — have been the comparatively enormous foreign houses . |
| 9 | I am under no illusion on that score , he wrote , I am under no illusion that the big glass will in an instant blow all that away , flatten the critics against the walls , tear paintings from their places , bring the galleries tumbling to the ground . |
| 10 | The summit was reached at 7pm four days later , the climbers descending in the dark . |
| 11 | Instead of the glorious celebrations they had hoped for , Christmas Eve saw the climbers racing down the mountain trying to escape 100mph winds in -50C temperatures . |
| 12 | Back home , I took down a catalogue of works by Leslie Hakim-Dowek , one of the artists exhibiting in the show . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It tasted good , but the only resemblance to tea was in the tealeaves floating on the top of the liquid . |
| 15 | A letter to The Times of 1923 , for example , drew attention to ‘ the dangers arising from the Americanization of the British Empire from the excessive number of American motion pictures shown ’ , but things came to a head in 1924 . |
| 16 | Actuarial analysis of the subgroups according to the stone mass ( size and number ) selected an ideal patient population with solitary stones less than 20 mm diameter ( 84% stone free after one year ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He died early one morning with our arms around him , and with the ducks quacking on the beach outside and his dogs lying at the foot of his bed . |
| 20 | She galloped past the rabbit hutches , the ducks swaying towards the pond . |
| 21 | In a two-dimensional space , for example as on this printed page , every point can be fixed , and fixed uniquely , by two numbers derived from the scales measuring of the length and the breadth of the page . |
| 22 | ‘ To see a hundred men in a circle reduced to sobs in two minutes and hear the woods echoing with the sound was extraordinary . ’ |
| 23 | It is as if academic freedom were a largely fixed commodity that was passed around among the groups contending for the right to make the key academic decisions . |
| 24 | Having been referred to the cases dealing with the issue of pay within article 119 , including Defrenne v Belgian State ( no 80/70 ) and Worringham v Lloyds Bank Ltd ( 1981 ICR 558 ) , there was no support for the submissions made on behalf of the employee . |
| 25 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 26 | To acquire soundness of judgment is essentially a matter of absorbing a sense of the norms operating in the agency which guide discretion at field level . |
| 27 | This approach is assisted by the common law saving provision found in s62(2) of the SGA 1979 which states : ( 2 ) The rules of the common law , including the law merchant , except in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act , and in particular the rules relating to the law of principal and agent and the effect of fraud , misrepresentation , duress or coercion , mistake , or other invalidating cause , apply to contracts for the sale of goods . |
| 28 | See Chapter 1 for the rules relating to the presentation of petitions in the High Court and various county courts having bankruptcy jurisdiction together with the list of such courts and the areas served by them in Appendix A. If there is a voluntary arrangement in force under Part VIII of the Act , the petition must be presented to the court dealing with the voluntary arrangement . |
| 29 | The Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and Spain , the Commission of the European Communities and the applicants in the main proceedings considered that , whilst the rules relating to the grant of the flag fell within the competence of the member states , the member states could not adopt legislation contrary to Community law . |
| 30 | Apart from the subject of drivers ' hours , the rules relating to the fitment and use of tachographs on European journeys need to be thoroughly understood . |