Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 4 | Maxim did his best to shrug inside the ropes wrapping him to the chair . |
| 5 | And as if Ontario was n't pretty enough of a picture , there are the galleries showing everything from the avant-garde to Old Masters . |
| 6 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 7 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 8 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 9 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 10 | Why in such a case should the courts blind themselves to a clear indication of what Parliament intended in using those words ? |
| 11 | It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The courts treat it as a question of fact and take an ad hoc approach . |
| 14 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Your eyes narrow against the claws gripping you by the scruff of the neck until you let your hook of anger go . |
| 17 | The stout plastic sacks are ripped open by sharp beaks , allowing the birds to help themselves to the contents . |
| 18 | Initially , the plans said no-one with a disposable income of more than £42 per week would get advice and assistance . |
| 19 | The Muslims saw him as a Russian , the Russians saw him as a Muslim . |
| 20 | Well in War and Peace it 's a story of the er I mean there are many themes go on but the broad sweep of history is about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the way the Russians defended themselves against the French armies . |
| 21 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 22 | ‘ We feel this book was written because the times imposed it upon the authors . |
| 23 | Regular work for New Society and the Times launched him as a freelance editorial illustrator , and he has an impressive list of clients — in the '80s he drew all the covers for Penguin 's new editions of Anthony Burgess ' work , and his work has appeared in the Independent on Sunday , Observer , Radio Times , New Scientist , American Esquire and — among other things — in numerous advertisements and promotions for whisky in the UK , Ireland and the US . |
| 24 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 25 | ‘ Now then , ’ the magistrate continued smoothly , ‘ I understand that in the course of a telephone call yesterday afternoon the kidnappers informed you of the whereabouts of a letter from them , and that this letter was subsequently recovered . |
| 26 | But it had a particularly important clause in section 1 , which laid a duty upon the authorities to inform themselves of the numbers of disabled persons in their areas and to make arrangements to meet their needs . |
| 27 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |
| 28 | The Mensheviks threw themselves into the working-class trade unions and other organizations which sprang up , seeking the fusion of the Party and the rank-and-file proletariat . |
| 29 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 30 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |