Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the period when these first marine invertebrates were evolving , between 600 and 1000 million years ago , erosion of the continents was producing great expanses of mud and sand on the sea bed around the continental margins . |
| 2 | His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement . |
| 3 | With the collapse of the Seamen 's United all thoughts of a national organisation became no more than a pipe dream . |
| 4 | The position taken by the accounting profession is that the function of the accounts is to provide verifiable information : what users of that information choose to do with it is a matter for them . |
| 5 | One major objective of the programmes is to strengthen cultural identity and traditions , and they may also lead to small-scale income-earning projects and ultimately to self-sufficiency . |
| 6 | He 's not as All the programmes are changed this morning , the youngsters being off school and so instead of the news it 's all these youngster 's programmes . |
| 7 | The scouts are planning another camp next year . |
| 8 | The Sergeants who would supervise the Scouts were wearing hybrid body armour of eagle plastrons , flexible leggings , and great shoulder plates embossed with jewelled axes , but no helmets — for the more lightly armoured Scouts wore no covering to their heads , either . |
| 9 | In the Netherlands , many quoted companies have widespread share ownership but the shareholders are given little power and technical barriers to takeovers are very important . |
| 10 | Cos presumably , when you look at the layout most of the signs are keep left signs . |
| 11 | University lecturers in the humanities are making increasing use of computers for teaching purposes ; but this too lies outside my scope . |
| 12 | However , when the courts are considering new situations , they will not be constrained by trying to fit them into existing categories . |
| 13 | Police fear thieves are turning to car crime because the courts are imposing tougher penalties for burglary and robbery . |
| 14 | This anomaly could , however , be remedied if the courts were to embrace novel theories of what constitutes loss given the novel essence of insider dealing . |
| 15 | It would be unfortunate if the courts were to permit these arguments to prevail . |
| 16 | In logic we would say to ourselves because the Germans are getting more seats , because East Germany is being added to the union , why on earth should Britain get more as well and it seems very difficult to explain why we should have extra seats at all . |
| 17 | The RSPCA is also concerned that the birds are allowed enough freedom to behave naturally … that 's natural apparently . |
| 18 | Other commentators , much more discomfited by these details than their colleagues , have suggested that the storyteller means the birds were flying three feet above the ground when they were caught ! |
| 19 | Many of the houses were given new façades in the Renaissance and then again in the late 17 and 18C . |
| 20 | The plans were proposed last autumn during a general session of UNESCO held in Paris . |
| 21 | All the prisoners are given temporary parole and most use it to the full . |
| 22 | The incident appeared likely to diminish the chances of the prisoners being freed last night . |
| 23 | It goes on to state that the cell had no electricity and no floor covering , the prisoners were allowed few clothes and they received only two meals a day , one consisting of a single very small momo ( steamed bun ) and the other of a small cup of wormy vegetables . |
| 24 | This uneasy stalemate between the superpowers was dramatically disturbed in October 1962 when definite evidence reached President Kennedy that the Russians were installing nuclear missiles in Cuba ( CORE , pp. 154–6 ) . |
| 25 | The groups are given different names . |
| 26 | For their part , the Saudis are applying more pressure upon the Lebanese Assembly members . |
| 27 | So the rules were changed last week to permit co-option of individual members . |
| 28 | If you want to use a different yarn and , especially for readers overseas who may not be able to buy the originals , the yarns are shown actual size so that you can compare your substitute yarn with the original . |
| 29 | The researchers are to examine more trees including four more species before they firm up their claims . |
| 30 | For the term obtained from equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , in the real image term of equation ( 6 ) , if r is not equal to a substrate atom position β i in a transform , the summations give rise to a small value because the scattering factors and the exponents are oscillating complex functions in the transform ; when r is equal to tend to cancel out the scattering path length contributions and the scattering factors to unity , and summations should produce a large value . |