Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining yeast in the casks turns the residual sugars into alcohol while the natural gas produced escapes through a soft porous wooden peg knocked into the shive hole on top of the cask . |
| 2 | As well as the Coronation , the crowds lining the rain-soaked streets of London , and at street parties and gathered round the spate of new television sets the Coronation had sparked , were also celebrating some news from the other side of the world . |
| 3 | Soldiers quickly reinforce the road-blocks to stop the emerging onlookers from reviewing the scene . |
| 4 | The salary-ranges reflect the increased responsibilities involved in their managerial and policy-making functions and are in turn set according to the size of the local authority and its population base . |
| 5 | What my analysis suggests is that the denials of professional responsibility , and the attempts to limit the economic consequences of being professionals , are not very convincing to a public that can observe auditors in a position of power dominated by economic self-interest . |
| 6 | The evidence for our palaeolithic ancestors having occupied this area is found in the eastern reaches of the Serengeti where the natural forces of erosion have cut a deep gash into the grasslands to expose the sun-baked deposits of Olduvai Gorge . |
| 7 | My father always used to do that for his crocuses because the birds loved the yellow ones , do n't they ? |
| 8 | He backed the plans to support the uneconomic farms and asked : ‘ Do we really need to compress the traditions and vitality of rural life and culture into the straitjacket of an industry like any other ? ’ |
| 9 | Er unfortunately the the problems which occurred in nineteen ninety two with the threat of German withdrawals from the Eurofighter two thousand project put a complete stop on the plans to merge the two agencies . |
| 10 | He even gave budgets for the plans showing the total costs of the proposed houses , furnished or unfurnished and with gardens . |
| 11 | This would be in addition to the plans to house the long-stay patients in new buildings on the periphery of the hospital site . |
| 12 | The proposals included the far-sighted proposals to amend the Legal Aid Regulations , so as to show the Bar 's determination that public funds should be efficiently used ; also to counter any suggestion of abuse of public funds by the Bar . |
| 13 | Then the pendulum swung too far in the other direction , towards an assertion that the Russians avoided the unpleasant aspects of colonialism as exemplified in Spanish , Portuguese or British experience . |
| 14 | Public law wrongs are defined by the rules establishing the substantive grounds of judicial review discussed in Section B below . |
| 15 | These parsers build the parse tree by starting with a rule whose right-hand side is a sentence , S. The rules are progressively expanded down to the rules having the lexical categories that match the input . |
| 16 | However , it may yet be tempted to bend the rules to admit the two newcomers . |
| 17 | The rules define the minimum standards for work organisation , the working environment , and the design of equipment such as desks , chairs and VDUs . |
| 18 | Mortified , all the other political leaders voted to change the rules to exclude the far-right MEPs from their new posts , especially after it was discovered that Mr Le Pen 's man for Israel was likely to be from West Germany 's Republicans , led by an ex-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber . |
| 19 | One of the reasons underlying the inconsistent results with regard to the effect of familial sinistrality might be that this factor is likely to be confounded with family size ( Bradshaw , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Some writers have suggested that men get paid more than women because women can neither work the hours necessary to earn the higher rates , nor do they possess the skills to get the better jobs because of the time and effort they expend on the care of home and children . |
| 21 | For instance , there is a 1520s lament by the Aztec poet Tlatelolco which begins : In the roads lie the broken spears … |
| 22 | But this does not mean that the technologies imposed the social forms , which have indeed followed the main lines of general social and economic power . |
| 23 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 24 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 25 | In a random sample of women in Camberwell , the researchers found the following relationships between provoking agents and depression , first among a sample of women who were vulnerable and secondly among a sample of women who were not . |
| 26 | Incidentally , in such cases identity of interest produced a close symbiosis between the large producers — where they happened to be natives and not themselves foreigners — the great trading houses and compradore interests of the export/import ports , and the policies of the states representing the European markets and suppliers . |
| 27 | The garages blend the different fuels together so that it is impossible to tell the difference between the blended mixture and unadulterated 4-star . |
| 28 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 29 | Presumably the manufacturers designed the standard brushes on the sinker plate to knit tuck stitch as well as the other stitches , so extra brushes are not necessary in these cases . |
| 30 | Since awards have such importance for individual candidates , SCOTVEC , as the awarding body , and centres , as the places in which the candidates learn the new skills and knowledge , must work in partnership to ensure that the awards for which we are responsible have the highest possible currency and credibility in the eyes of candidates , employers and other users . |