Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One full-timer and three part-timers led the move , with a former guest editor and the ever-present — they had little else to do Hell 's Angels . |
| 2 | Projects using the expertise within the group have included the Falkirk and Stirling environmental geological mapping projects , the East Grampian project and the DOE sponsored West Birmingham and Fuller 's Earth projects . |
| 3 | However , although the parliament on May 26 called on foreign states to support the demand for the withdrawal of the 14th Army , it hesitated to back Snegur 's demand . |
| 4 | The role of families and of informal neighbourhood care is much more widely acknowledged and various projects to support the carers and stimulate neighbourhood networks are under way . |
| 5 | As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials . |
| 6 | The business interests of the group were consolidated in 1924 under the name of The Wellcome Foundation Limited and the Company aims of today still correspond very closely to those of its founders , namely the discovery , development , manufacture and sale of products to promote the health and hygiene of man and animals . |
| 7 | The comprehensive nature of the local groups is evident from a list of their duties , which were to focus the efforts of different agencies dealing with juvenile employment ; to organize methods of collecting information about the character , education , and home life of school-leavers , usually with the assistance of teachers and school care committees ( SCCs ) ( which were under the control of the education offices ) ; to form subcommittees or rotas to attend the labour exchange for the purpose of interviewing applicants and parents ; and to organize a system of ‘ after-care ’ in co-operation with SCCs , clubs , and other similar organizations . |
| 8 | From May 1985 this included a trade embargo and an economic blockade , mining Nicaraguan ports , large-scale support for the Contras and various undercover operations to disrupt the economy . |
| 9 | The celebrated cases make the point that in spite of its ill-deserved reputation , Glasgow is actually more peaceful than a lot of other places I could think of … unless , of course , you were an innocent wee serving lassie in 1862 . |
| 10 | Special gloves and even whole body suits mean the game can be felt as well . |
| 11 | The company 's attempts to mislead the public simply highlight how it profits by wrecking one of the Earth 's greatest natural treasures . " |
| 12 | in what ideological terms do these classes or groups perceive the problem of soil erosion — causes , blame , solutions ? |
| 13 | In other words , to the extent that Christianity is seen as providing a source of values which can legitimise the market economy , those same values undermine the assumptions from which a humanistic defence of the market economy starts . |
| 14 | HEIGHTENED tension in Natal province forced the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to cancel plans to attend the funeral of six children killed in an ambush ten days ago , African National Congress officials said yesterday . |
| 15 | Refinement against the F A values using the program ASLSQ was unstable and not used . |
| 16 | Age Concern is so worried about the impact of cash restraints on assessments , it has asked its 1,000-plus member groups to monitor the situation . |
| 17 | The structure was held together with ropes binding the beams to the vertical posts . |
| 18 | The design of the Panopticon represents Bentham 's contribution to contemporary attempts to assure the quality of time used . |
| 19 | He wrote Quodlibeta ( between 1291 and 1301 ) , and treatises opposing the doctrine of the plurality of forms . |
| 20 | They will not reveal any plans to demolish the house next door and erect a block of flats in its place . |
| 21 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 22 | The knights met the Council at Lincoln in July 1316 , and the king 's officers drew up for them a list of ‘ divers errors ’ contained in the perambulations of 1300 . |
| 23 | It is , indeed , difficult to avoid the generalization that while classical tendencies are increasingly becoming the ‘ dominant ’ ( in Jakobson 's sense ) in a commercial system such as that epitomized by US broadcasting , naturalist tendencies remain the dominant in the UK where public-service values retain an increasingly tenuous hold . |
| 24 | The latest facelifts make the point . |
| 25 | Her fingers tickle the hairs on the back of my hand . |
| 26 | Only inhabited for the past two hundred years , the unique flora and fauna of these delightfully unsophisticated island have been allowed to evolve undisturbed over the past 600 million years , yielding a unique heritage of birds and blooms encompassing the spectrum 's every colour . |
| 27 | However voluntary groups lack the funds to do as much as they would like in providing comfortable well staffed centres . |
| 28 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |
| 29 | At present , black comedy 's screen coverage is limited to The Real McCoy — whose shaky sets and second-rate scripts hinder the scene 's advancement as much as the very presence of the show helps it . |
| 30 | Implicit is the idea that A has some form of control over B , or at least a strong bargaining position that enables A to score a ‘ victory ’ over B. Companies sometimes have power of this kind over suppliers , as where the company is one of only a limited number of buyers of a supplier 's goods or services , and even to an extent over governments , manifested , for example , in negotiations over subsidies or in successful attempts to dilute the content of regulation . |