Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relative peace has given loggers the security to operate , as well as producing something of a construction boom , creating an internal market for timber products . |
| 2 | The sound it emits scans the scene in front of it , rather like a beam of light , and its brain uses the echoes received to form a " sound picture " of the scene . |
| 3 | In catering operations the procedure includes removal of waste scraps , litter and liquids . |
| 4 | Our photographic service offers readers the opportunity to order image-enhanced reproductions . |
| 5 | The group also offers clients the opportunity to share experiences and receive feedback from peers . |
| 6 | Parliament has given journalists the right to be present , even though the rest of the public is excluded , in the case of juvenile courts and domestic proceedings in magistrates ' courts . |
| 7 | The kind of determinism dominant in the book is exemplified in his discussion of tense : On the other hand it could be said that the English tense system offers speakers the choice of whether to see time in this way . |
| 8 | developed the local authority role from direct provider to effective enabler , encouraging many tenants to buy their own homes , allowing schools the freedom to manage their own affairs and improving the quality of local services by allowing private business to compete for contracts . |
| 9 | It 's the erm the way you stress words the way for example the way I will repeat words quite a |
| 10 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 11 | It serves as a direct plug-in replacement for Advanced Micro 's PAL 16R8 , and most of its PAL 10H8 series , and offers designers the advantage of individually programmable outputs . |
| 12 | Quite apart from any question of how polishing and scuffing influences the behaviour of the ball , is there any reason why any interference with its state should be allowed ? |
| 13 | BRITISH Bulldog Davey Boy Smith has legs the size of tree trunks — and they are used to weathering storms . |
| 14 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 15 | They would need accelerators the size of our galaxy , several hundred thousand light years across . |
| 16 | Inside the bacterium the D N A of the erm C of the T four bacteria then starts hijacks the cellulum material , like the you saw before , in the cell , and instead of making the things that the cell wants to make , it starts to make bits of the of the T four bacteria . |
| 17 | My father had his allotment at Bugmore and felt himself fortunate , for prior to becoming gardens the area had been filter beds for the City 's Sewage Works . |
| 18 | Certainly in the Smolensk and Kursk gubernii the will was there from the outset to mould and to control . |
| 19 | On the question of whether or not to grant immigrants the right to vote in local elections , Michel Rocard , the PS Prime Minister , stated that the " extension of the right to vote in local elections to immigrants must be the consequence of successful integration , not its prerequisite " . |
| 20 | Springflo is an embossed polypropylene tape , similar to parcel tape , but coated with calcium carbonate which it is claimed aids the development of bacteria . |
| 21 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 22 | The transference which develops between the analyst and analysand aids the process by re-creating the early relationships between the individual and their parents , and enables the analyst first of all to see the projections of the analysand in this special setting . |
| 23 | The ash raining down from it added to the misery of the people in the area — the Sir Robert Sale reported lumps the size of pumpkins falling on her decks , and she was at least forty kilometres distant . |
| 24 | If there had been no rain and the soil become dry , we used to prepare these slit trenches the day before and fill them with water from a can , but carefully , so as not to wash the soil back into them . |
| 25 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 26 | Women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing men as stronger and saner |
| 27 | If you do n't need glasses the optician must give you a statement saying that . |
| 28 | All through the long , twisting lanes the route was marked by twigs — twigs from the witch 's broom — which led to Threlkeld and only ceased when they came to the church with a steeple crowned by a gilded weathercock . |
| 29 | ( Indeed , the anti-vivisectionists were allowed a small but notable coup on this score : Sue Crowshaw , badly disabled by rheumatoid arthritis , made a moving speech denying scientists the right to claim they were experimenting on her behalf . ) |
| 30 | However , with changing attitudes in society , questions are being raised about the morality of denying girls the opportunity to sing in a cathedral choir . |