Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kragan retraced his steps and left the crowds to walk behind the House of Mirrors . |
| 2 | Er , a fourth year of record profits , record er , sales , record margin , with the schools business thirty seven percent ahead of the previous year with our successful maths programme , aided and abetted by er , the business that produces the manipulatives to go with the maths programme . |
| 3 | If the defendant negligently starts a fire and strong winds then cause the flames to spread to the plaintiff 's property , the court will not find that the winds break the chain of causation . |
| 4 | sufficient time must be granted to the shareholders to decide on the offer ; |
| 5 | ‘ What ? ’ cried the great dragon , his deep brass-gonged voice ringing out and causing several of the gems to tinkle off the jade pagoda . |
| 6 | There is now little left for the creditors to salvage from the airline 's wreckage . |
| 7 | Towards evening the Collector gave the order for everyone who could be spared from the ramparts to assemble in the hall , he wanted to say a few words to the garrison . |
| 8 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 9 | It would be up to the courts to decide on the matter , ’ says her local trading standards officer , Mr Slater . |
| 10 | While there may be a reluctance on the part of the courts to rule on the validity of Acts of Parliament , a related issue which has arisen is whether they may adjudicate upon the question whether something purporting to be an Act of Parliament actually is such . |
| 11 | That does not mean that the law should change with every passing fancy — crimes such as theft , fraud , murder , etc. will never become fashionable — but ‘ social ’ crimes such as publishing indecent or obscene material are dependent on society 's perception of what is or is not indecent or obscene at the time , and the legislation of one period may be inappropriate in another period of time , to the extent that resorting to the courts to deal with the matter may be quite inappropriate and ineffective . |
| 12 | Frankly , dear readers , I was getting bored waiting for the graphs to get to the point of maximum excitement . |
| 13 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
| 14 | Okay , so , that 's , they 're the reasons to account for the rise in absolute values of er , trade in all commodities , what about erm , why has the er , trade in manufactures er , increased as a proportion of total trade ? |
| 15 | A vole mandible is illustrated here showing the incisor , three molars and the body of the mandible all in position , but immersion in water caused the teeth to separate from the mandible and the bone of the mandible itself to break up into minute fragments . |
| 16 | Following his comments Shoob on Oct. 5 acceded to requests by the authorities to withdraw from the case and admitted that he had reached " certain preliminary conclusions " concerning the evidence . |
| 17 | Or , as Niall Fitzduff put it , the community ‘ is not to be destroyed at the whim of mining company ’ while nothing could ‘ compensate us or the generations to come for the loss of our community ’ . |
| 18 | When a dog found the game it would bark , and all the people would run after it , forcing the animals to rush into the net . |
| 19 | The girl mounted the steps to stand beside the master of ceremonies and they carried on a conversation which , though audible , was unintelligible . |
| 20 | As autumn arrives , the birds migrate south , leaving the foxes to scavenge from the bird and reindeer carcasses and anything that might be washed up on the shore . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No familiar McGowran use of the eyes to show for the passing of years . |
| 23 | The face begins to swell and the eyes to protrude with the cough and then comes oedema between the eyelids and the eyebrows , even to the extent of a little water bag forming . |
| 24 | The likeliest place for the specks to get into the product was in the ‘ Fluon ’ finishing Room so we set up a multi-disciplinary CAT of operators , supervisors , QC , QA and maintenance personnel headed by Finishing Room manager Jim Fairhurst . |
| 25 | Clearly , training that allows the subjects to come to the task with these associations ready formed will be of help ; and equally clearly , reversed pre-training will have just the opposite effect . |
| 26 | That is Law 5 , which would not require the umpires to consult with the match referee . |
| 27 | Jefferson allowed the words to hang in the air . |
| 28 | The test , in every case , is whether reasonable people would understand the words to point to the plaintiff personally , and the journalist can not escape simply by widening the net of suspects . |
| 29 | But y you a are asking the inspectors to proceed on the basis that all land within the six-mile radius of the city centre serves a greenbelt function ? |
| 30 | When the desk-clerk left his post for a moment , crossing to the lifts to talk to the porter , she moved quickly to the desk and left an envelope addressed to Colonel Lin Foh upon it . |