Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [coord] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control . |
| 2 | Rice , coal and rubber were sold abroad for the exclusive benefit of French shareholders in Europe , and Annamese coolies were driven hard in the mines and on the rubber plantations for paltry pay ; peasant rice growers , too , were frequently robbed of their lands on flimsy pretexts so that bigger holdings could be granted to French colons and the few rich Annamese who collaborated with France . |
| 3 | I shall discuss later the theoretical objections to technological determinism ; Goody in any case recognises the dangers and in a later essay himself rejects such determinism , refuting the claims that this is what he was doing . |
| 4 | Employees aggrieved by the actions of their employers may seek redress through the courts or at an industrial tribunal . |
| 5 | ( a ) Conventions are non-legal rules of constitutional behaviour which are considered to be binding upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in Parliament . |
| 6 | Conventions of the Constitution are most aptly described as rules that are considered binding by and upon those who are responsible for making the Constitution work , but rules that are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in either house of Parliament . |
| 7 | [ The grass patch beyond the courts and to the old cooking centre is still owned by the Foulis Trust ] . |
| 8 | ( The grass patch beyond the courts and to the old cooking centre is still owned by the Foulis Trust ) . |
| 9 | She managed throughout the following years to maintain a front of firmness and dignity , earning the respect of the Germans and at the same time extracting the best terms she could for Sark and its people , with whom she shared the hunger and other privations of occupation , the anxieties engendered by two unsuccessful British commando raids , and the pain of separation when many islanders , including her husband , were deported to German prison camps . |
| 10 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 11 | Visitors are free to wander through the woods and across the extensive lawns to admire the lily pond , the fountain and the rose gardens . |
| 12 | While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow . |
| 13 | It was noted earlier that Hare in 1969 had noted how geography often endeavours to stay out of phase with the climate of the times and in a later paper ( Hare , 1980 ) he directed attention to whether the planetary environment was fragile or sturdy . |
| 14 | In 1805 he collected in the Faeroes and in the following year he was commissioned by the Danish government to collect in Greenland , where he passed eight summers and seven winters . |
| 15 | A comprehensive analysis of the cases and of the relevant equitable principles is to be found in the judgment of Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones ( 1939 ) 63 C.L.R. 649 . |
| 16 | ‘ We were concerned about the safety of the personnel and about the presentational aspect , ’ Mr Collins wrote on 4 July , 1985 . |
| 17 | He was the latest in a long line of seasoned golfers to contract the yips and as a direct result slumped to 51st place on the Order of Merit . |
| 18 | Before we go on to keep the , to look at the minutes and for the young people who were actually on the weekend in . |
| 19 | Sunlight glittered on the snow at the peaks and on the tiny white houses below . |
| 20 | The pattern of sequence conservation within the marsupials and between the two classes of mammals is the same as that previously noted in eutherians : average levels of conservation in the region encoding the HMG box and little or no conservation outside the box . |
| 21 | Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps . |
| 22 | You then say that when the hotelier went to wake up everyone for breakfast he had a big surprise , for in one bed was all the kings , in another was all the queens , in another all the aces and in the other all the jacks . |
| 23 | Sam Reed had set up two of the goals and in the second half it was his cross that led to Grant 's second goal . |
| 24 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 25 | Nicandra went down the steps and under the dark carriage portico that put its pillared bulk between evening light , or the light of the moon . |
| 26 | He went down the steps and through the little brick alley . |
| 27 | Beth smiled to herself , then went down the steps and into the relative darkness of the dining room . |
| 28 | Stumbling a little , she followed him up the steps and across the moonlit terrace into the palazzo . |
| 29 | Into this scene of gossip and legend , of curious artistry and strange wonders , Lanfranc brought a more modern mind , great administrative ability , and a clear , constructive , expert knowledge of the up-to-date learning of the schools and of the monastic life in its contemporary forms . |
| 30 | The vesicles are often found on the labia or around the vaginal entrance . |