Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er at least thirty percent of my business erm have either stopped their accounts or reached the limit of their patience . |
| 2 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 3 | ‘ We were talking about 1968 and 1969 and the songs that changed the face of country music — Sunday Morning Coming Down , Boy Named Sue , Lay Lady Lay , Both Sides Now — someone said they were songs that made a difference . |
| 4 | Music played softly in the background , haunting melodies of old Charles Trenet songs that soothed the senses , softening the harshness of chattering voices and the clinking of glass and crockery , insinuating themselves into the mind as stealthily as an incoming tide seeps into crevices between rocks . |
| 5 | The animals that received the PDGF-secreting COS cells were protected from the anti-proliferative effects of nerve transection ( Fig. 3 ) , whereas animals that received nontransfected COS cells were not ( data not shown ) . |
| 6 | All these mammalian orders stem from small insectivorous animals that inhabited the forests while the dinosaurs were still living . |
| 7 | And many will leave shows better informed about the animals that captured the prizes . |
| 8 | An exhibition that brings together ( for the first time in over a century ) the Pre-Raphaelites ' paintings , sculpture and decorative arts that decorated the houses of the region 's Victorian industrialists and entrepreneurs . |
| 9 | We have been bemused too long by the great military roads of the Romans and have not given enough thought and research to the local ‘ economic ’ roads that developed during the two or three centuries that followed the Conquest and the brief phase of military occupation . |
| 10 | We can see that the CCCS presented a different picture of youth leisure styles than did the Albemarle Report . |
| 11 | Cos we said them young kids that had the trumpets for that thing , I bet she had a go at them and all not to knacker them . |
| 12 | Abdominal pain was still present in 27% , stool withholding in 45% , constipation with <3 bowel movements per week in 39% , bowel mvoements that clogged the toilet in 45% , laxative use in 33% , and soiling in 48% of the children who did not recover . |
| 13 | This radical change of role for marketing led to a major change of organization structure , at least for those organizations that adopted the marketing concept . |
| 14 | The heartlands of Tiranoc were swamped by a succession of enormous tidal waves that drowned the plains and smashed the cities . |
| 15 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |
| 16 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 17 | He stared at her through eyes that saw the shadows of many lands . |
| 18 | The figure in the painting spoke of the human spirit and looked out at the world with a serene timelessness , and eyes that knew the great gift of being a master and an artist . |
| 19 | Robert took in the neatly combed hair , the frail shoulders , the exquisite cheekbones with the red blemish on one side , and the huge , sightless eyes that roamed the blackness below him like inverted searchlights , as if to soak up the shadows . |
| 20 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 21 | But they took no notice and jacked her out anyway , and the hospital was crammed with the odour of disinfectant and medicines and mechanical solidities that drove the pretty meanings away . |
| 22 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 23 | Growth continued to create shortages that expanded the black market . |
| 24 | He said the products shortages that hurt the company in the first half are virtually behind it now , and Apple will be better able to meet demand in the second half . |
| 25 | It was the fact that the same individual could experiment with such a wide range of themes , subjects and styles that kept the spirit of invention alive , and encouraged some startling developments in film narrative , none of which had anything to do with theatrical forms of presentation . |
| 26 | Placed to the rear of the Lusignan retinue , the company of Nicholas barely heard the clipped and formal exchanges demanded by protocol , or the clink of the keys as they were handed over , or the flourish of trumpets that heralded the raising of the Lusignan banner on every wall . |
| 27 | for the local parties that defied the pact were mostly from strong and independent city parties used to financial independence . |
| 28 | In Allied Dunbar ( Frank Weisinger ) Limited v Weisinger [ 1988 ] IRLR 60 it was held that ultimately the parties that negotiated the covenants are the best judges of the reasonableness of the terms they have negotiated . |
| 29 | For most reviewers of Auerbach 's work shown in London in 1987 there was no doubt that the series of depictions of heads that dominated the show were portraits . |
| 30 | None the less , the trustees were able to raise more than £70,000 towards the repairs of the church , funds that unlocked the crucial support from English Heritage and the National Heritage Memorial Fund . |