Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile .
2 He said they had the wires all streaming down the platform so they had to wire up , close off the platform .
3 But what would happen if the companies concerned bought up the rivers and lakes ?
4 This made it clear that it was not the governments objective to alter fundamentally the red relationship between auditor and client , nor were we looking to increase the costs of audit .
5 It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic .
6 Does the agent possess the resources necessary to carry out the task adequately , i.e. financial resources , transport , offices , warehouses and human resources ?
7 I am dubious about their confidence that British industry is already experienced in a wide range of PWR work , and has technical and manufacturing competence at the levels ready to receive successfully the transfer of information specific to PWR components .
8 Indigenization implies that there are locals , official or private , standing in the wings ready to take over the indigenized companies .
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