Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newly established courts treated the offenders too lightly for the liking of the authorities , and the press gave the case unwelcome publicity . |
| 2 | However , a number of independent legal experts regarded the deals as unfair and exceptional . |
| 3 | There were fears of a crackdown in those republics demanding their independence , especially the Baltic states given the events of January 1991 [ see p. 37944-45 ] and more recent attacks on border posts [ see pp. 38302 ; 38350 ] . |
| 4 | Some who at various times occupied the houses were the McCabe , Brown , White , Lamb , Mann , Wells and Carson families . |
| 5 | Fossil evidence reveals that these giants occupied the woodlands and mountain forests of southern China until the ice ages drove them south into what are now the islands of Sumatra and Borneo . |
| 6 | When he ran to call the police trays of fish were upset and passers-by given the products . |
| 7 | Have n't these candidates got the guts to face up to the voters who elect them to Parliament and spare us a few minutes of their time . |
| 8 | These considerations affected the boundaries of the new districts . |
| 9 | A team of six inspectors compiled the reports from visits to homes over last three months , and from almost a thousand questionnaires . |
| 10 | In the last century , before the Suez Canal was cut , when the Indian Army passed Dendera on their march from the Red Sea to Alexandria , the sepoys identified the figures of Hathor with Shiva 's bull , Nandi , and much to the surprise of their British officers , worshipped in the columned halls of the temple . |
| 11 | Books with poetry scribbled across erotic pictures lined the shelves … |
| 12 | The coffins were lined with roses , and hundreds of telegrams lined the walls . |
| 13 | When we hit the city centre , cafés were open , people were everywhere , cars jammed the roads . |
| 14 | Critics of the dual state thesis argue that in practice public expenditures can be classified according to their function only through a post hoc evaluation of their consequences or by knowing which organizations implemented the programmes ( which would make the whole schema tautologous ) . |
| 15 | It could accordingly be a long time before resolutely indolent or constitutionally inept directors regarded the problems of raising money as a reason for modifying their behaviour . |
| 16 | Enthusiasts regarded the tests as providing ‘ objective ’ information which could be used in assessing the efficiency of a given educational programme or of the teachers . |
| 17 | While the surviving ex-guerrillas occupied the positions of responsibility , the rank and file were drawn from their old IP opponents of the Civil War , those who had no reason to love Osvaldo . |
| 18 | ICI specialists decanted the fuel before fire crews separated the vehicles . |
| 19 | A nine-member committee of past-participant gallery directors selected the exhibitors from more than 250 applicants . |
| 20 | The letter concerns formation of an obscure bone in the heads of a group of burrowing lizards called the amphisbaenians . |
| 21 | Secondly , even when some paths did have to be pursued in parallel because their scores were above the threshold , the finite-state arrangement of hypotheses restricted the candidates for any particular slot , and cut short the combinatorics through backwards pruning ( Fig. 9.2 , point A ) . |
| 22 | The establishment of permanent ambassadors marked the beginnings of a diplomatic service . |
| 23 | The Belgian Government considered that the problem raised in the case arise solely because the institutions of the European Communities fixed the quotas per member state . |
| 24 | Shelves lined the walls on which stood magical pots — organic , looking as if they 'd grown rather than been made , with the colours of the trees , the earth and the sea merging in the glaze . |
| 25 | From this has emerged the suggestion that villages were an aberration in the landscape and that , in many cases , hamlets and farmsteads predated the villages and in some way represent a more normal form of settlement . |
| 26 | In constitutional states , the need to placate electorates cramped the officials ; a British diplomatist 's freedom of action was diminished , for example , if a problem involved national self-determination . |
| 27 | Dealers regarded the punters ' concern to make a profit on , say , £500 worth of Rolls Royce shares with a contempt peculiar to the City whizz-kids they aspired to become . |
| 28 | Old-style Falangists occupied the ministries associated with social and political control ( Interior , Army , Labour and the Party Secretariat ) , but portfolios connected with the external image of the regime and the assurance of its future ( such as Justice , Foreign Affairs , Education and Public Works ) were assigned to men guided less by rigid ideological concepts than by their awareness that the world had changed since 1945 and that Spain needed to adapt if it was to be counted among the leading nations in the post-war world . |
| 29 | Expansion costs pegged the profits increase at a more modest 8.8% to £110.6m . |
| 30 | But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding . |