Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |
| 2 | Ring round the experts and take some advice today . |
| 3 | The other person in the cell tried to smother the flames and suffered superficial damage to his hands as a result of that . |
| 4 | Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office , where terrified workers doused the flames and administered first aid . |
| 5 | However , he did not enter those offices but staggered into a neighbouring office where staff smothered the flames and administered first aid . |
| 6 | Thus cis-double bonds ( I ) , o- and m-phenylene groups ( 11 ) , or cis-oriented puckered rings ( III ) , all encourage bending and twisting in the chains and make regular close-packing very difficult . |
| 7 | The operation of the judicial system was subject to social change , and the various judicial and police reforms of the later nineteenth century did improve the efficiency of the courts and lessen technical aspects of court procedure . |
| 8 | The debate should not be distracted from the main issue of giving ordinary people easier access to the courts and making legal aid available to the 10 million people no longer eligible for it , he said . |
| 9 | He was caught by the Germans and spent seven months in a prisoner of war camp before being freed and returning to continue his army career , retiring as a captain in 1955 . |
| 10 | He varied this routine by pushing rubbish through the letter box , pulling the flowers from the tiny strip of garden we tried to cultivate between the flagstones and chalking rude messages on my car . |
| 11 | Uncertain whether to knock politely on the kitchen door , or just thrust it open and make a dramatic entry , Leonora dumped her bag on the flagstones and pushed wet rat's-tails of hair back from her face . |
| 12 | In the days of the Weimar Republic , artists , writers , cabaret entertainers , and gypsies would meet in the woods and entertain each other and the day-trippers . |
| 13 | Turn right to gateway into the woods and descend grassy path to fence and stile . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , Kennedy committed the USA to a new level of arms production , thoroughly alarming the Russians and inaugurating another phase in the arms race between the superpowers . |
| 15 | Mr Stevens , 68 , served aboard the light cruiser HMS Scylla in 1943 ferrying supplies to the Russians and keeping German submarines at bay . |
| 16 | When they grew up , it became fashionable to return to the warehouses and hold huge parties there . |
| 17 | Things do not always work out as simply as that , of course , but knowing the rules and drawing clear lines before the game starts are essential if misunderstandings are to be avoided . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the committee set the rules and obtained generous sponsorship through local industry , together with donors for the two trophies . |
| 19 | Despite having the smaller pack , they were always on top in the scrums and scored two pushover tries , both touched down by McGrath . |
| 20 | • consider a special 180 degree X-ray ( OPG ) at 7 years old to assess the formation of the teeth and plan any corrections |
| 21 | We saw lots of people picking up stones erm from around , by the edges of the roads and making little piles and they would then get picked up by lorries and I should think they 'd get a , a couple of pence through doing that . |
| 22 | Snow is on the peaks and blocks some passes . |
| 23 | Furthermore , an instruction set could provide an arbitrary collection of operations which seem likely to be convenient , or we can attempt to group the operations and provide some structure in the set of instructions provided ; the instruction set of the Pegasus ( Elliott , Owen , Devonald , and Maudsley 1956 ) is a good example of the latter . |
| 24 | It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible . |
| 25 | CBS , an American network , will help choose the titles and provide technical help in return for the rights to screen the films . |
| 26 | Is to abolish the law that embarrasses the employers and gives minimum protection of low paid working people . |
| 27 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 28 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 29 | We refuelled , repaired the brakes and emptied some sand out of the aircraft , and the next day we checked the aircraft and weather and did some minor maintenance , returning to the hotel at 3.30 pm . |
| 30 | Last year a bonanza of foreign capital attracted by interest rates of more than 18 p.c. poured $6 billion into Portugal , equivalent to 8 p.c. of gross domestic product , and forced the country to slam on the brakes and restrict foreign purchases of escudo investments . |