Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIGHT Dogs may be less enthusiastic to perform where they are on the leash but this gives you the opportunity to guide them to the appropriate spot . |
| 2 | Since 1964 six polytechnics and colleges have taken the opportunity afforded them by the Council for National Academic Awards to design and develop courses culminating in the C.N.A.A . |
| 3 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 4 | Police spokesman Martin Wallwork said : ‘ In police stations civilians will do the duties of officers who man the front desk giving us the opportunity to redeploy them on the streets . ’ |
| 5 | They also included the operation of ‘ stand down , ’ by which the airline retained scarce skills by allowing people to work elsewhere on part pay but having the opportunity to recall them at a month 's notice . |
| 6 | It is understood therefore , that , as part of the pupil 's exploration of aspects of religion and morality , he/she will have access to these five main elements of the Mysteries of the Faith , and the opportunity to relate them to the particular issue/topic being explored . |
| 7 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 8 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 9 | After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew . |
| 10 | But the resistance buries them beneath a cross . ’ |
| 11 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 12 | The vet left them in the staff room while they tried to discuss Lizzie 's future . |
| 13 | There was a moment 's hesitation , then the boy 's prints were flashed up on the screen , the computer superimposing them over the others . |
| 14 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 15 | The minutes of the SGM held on the 4th May 1990 were read and it was agreed that the chairman sign them as a true record . |
| 16 | With the increasing number of cutters and the decision to operate them on an all year round basis the closed shop tendency for crewing of the earlier days could not continue . |
| 17 | The university welcomes them as a source of income ; some students are funded by their own governments to obtain a doctorate and enter public service . |
| 18 | At one stage the route took them past a park where the body of a ten year old girl was found at the weekend . |
| 19 | Well no the , the owner , the baker reported them to the police . |
| 20 | The taxi dropped off one of the passengers , and the offenders instructed the driver to take them to a farm club , and then asked him to turn down a farm track . |
| 21 | After telling the driver to take them to the marina , he climbed in beside her . |
| 22 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 23 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 24 | The exhausted coolies stumbled against one another in panic as the overseers marshalled them into a circle with blows about the head and shoulders . |
| 25 | The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders . |
| 26 | The steersman showed them off the boat . |
| 27 | A treaty was agreed in 1490 , although a concession was made to the Venetians to exempt them from the Staple . |
| 28 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 29 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 30 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |