Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 2 | As they ran into the garden , stumbling clumsily against each other , there was a hollow explosion : the flames had reached the uncovered paraffin tin . |
| 3 | The conceptual basis underlying the Nat Bell decision has been removed as the courts have rejected the limited theory of jurisdiction , and have moved through the collateral fact doctrine towards the theory of extensive review . |
| 4 | Here we find similarities with the position in breach of contract where the courts have recognised the innominate term as a method of reducing the hardship of categorising terms of the contract , irrespective of the consequences of the breach , as conditions ( see below ) . |
| 5 | It may be helpful to know that the courts have treated the following as contracts of sale contracts : to make and supply ships ' propellers according to a specification , Cammell Laird v. Manganese Bronze & brass ( 1934 H.L. ) ; to prepare and supply food in a restaurant , Lockett v. A. & m . |
| 6 | It is now necessary to see how the courts have interpreted the reasonable foreseeability test . |
| 7 | The sentencers have used the new powers , not to reduce the numbers being sent to prison , but as a way of substituting a tougher penalty for petty offenders . |
| 8 | At Verdun in February 1916 the Germans had achieved the greatest concentration of air power yet seen — 168 planes , fourteen ‘ Drachen ’ balloons , four Zeppelins . |
| 9 | Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area . |
| 10 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 11 | We measured the phosphorylation of the proteins of synaptic membranes prepared from brains dissected at various times after training , and , sure enough , the phosphorylation of one key presynaptic protein was affected thirty minutes after the birds had pecked the bitter bead . |
| 12 | During an earlier panic about garotting robberies and stabbing incidents in 1856 , The Times had enjoyed the good fortune actually to discover some real foreigners to blame for the outrages , pointing the accusing finger at ‘ men who have been discharged from the foreign legions ’ . |
| 13 | The hunters had become the hunted . |
| 14 | But the hunters have become the hunted . |
| 15 | But the hunters have become the hunted . |
| 16 | On Jan. 25 the USSR Defence Minister , Gen. Dmitry Yazov , told a press conference for Soviet journalists in Baku that the authorities had ordered the military intervention to pre-empt a meeting of the Popular Front scheduled for Jan. 20 at which its leaders would have announced that they had seized power in Azerbaijan . |
| 17 | Just as importantly , the authorities have urged the French to change their attitude to science . |
| 18 | why , in any case , should the Cro-Magnons have felt the slightest urge to exterminate the Neanderthals ( with whom it is thought they could have interbred ) ? |
| 19 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 20 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 21 | Using light to find one 's own way around requires vastly more energy , since the eyes have to detect the tiny fraction of the light that bounces off each part of the scene . |
| 22 | Faithful readers will recall that , despite being bottom of the Banks Group Northern Youth League , the lads had played the entire season without a booking or sending off until the catastrophic 82nd minute of the final game . |
| 23 | No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road . |
| 24 | Some of the shops have kept the picturesque arcaded windows . |
| 25 | As already stated , the clergy had sustained the catholic — nationalist populace over centuries of oppression . |
| 26 | The dinosaurs have dominated the popular conception of the fossil reptiles , sometimes to the extent of seeming almost synonymous with the word ‘ fossil ’ ! |
| 27 | Anterior and posterior images of 30 seconds durations were recorded at 15 minute intervals starting immediately after the subjects had ingested the first course of the meal . |
| 28 | The authors have taken the basic concepts of keeping cichlids of all sizes and often adapted them to suit the best requirements of the species being kept . |
| 29 | Helmut Rechenburg , his collaborator on this mammoth project , was Heisenberg 's last doctoral student , and clearly well suited to the task in hand Faced with so much material , it must be hard to know what to leave out , and the authors have chosen the best solution — leave nothing out . |
| 30 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |