Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 2 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 3 | Gill and Jackson had the ideal opportunity to demonstrate how the phenomenon of identity confusion could be understood through the process of racial discrimination in society , a path whereby children of minority groups tend to internalise the values of the dominant society , and internalise derogatory values about themselves . |
| 4 | The Brownings have no room in the Casa Guidi should they ever be willing to shelter him and in any case intend to follow the Storys for another winter in Rome ( entailing another in Florence alone for me ) . |
| 5 | We used the Mann-Whitney U test to compare the results of different groups . |
| 6 | 7.2.3 For elderly people , the proposals appear to overlook the difficulties which they may face if , for instance , the contract for cataracts or hip replacements is placed at a hospital some distance away . |
| 7 | Thus , social skills involve assessing the skills of the other person , a process known as mutual construing . |
| 8 | Britain , West Germany and the Netherlands want to reduce the scientists ' pay by 4½ per cent over the next three years . |
| 9 | The tidal forces between M and m tend to distort the bodies from their spherical shapes , producing elongations along the line joining the two bodies as shown in Figure 6.2 ( a ) . |
| 10 | Herbal remedies tend to treat the symptoms , even if the actual cause is not known . |
| 11 | The Georgians tend to start the lifts only when they have to , so if you are first up each lift , you ask them to open the next one ! |
| 12 | The best of these sausages are loose or in jars — I find that the necessary temperatures achieved during canning tend to make the sausages rather fatty and slimy in texture . |
| 13 | Manufacturers want to sell the gadgets as a ‘ stopgap ’ until more useful large flat screens arrive |
| 14 | We produced mutations in the MetJ subunit to disrupt the contacts for DNA binding or the interaction between dimers ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 15 | Why should the government or industry consider funding the activities of scholars who are marginalized by their own professions ? |
| 16 | The arrival of a rigorously constructed Italian data set to match the ones covering the United Kingdom and Germany already in the hands of Cable and Wilson , and France in the hands of Estrin and Jones will facilitate a proper comparative study of the relationship between performance and participation in Western Europe . |
| 17 | The first means identifying these issues that are critical to leisure policy and the means by which decision-makers operate to achieve the goals established by legislation or ministerial directives . |
| 18 | Although programs such as PageMaker and Ventura continue to steal the headlines as being the driving force behind desktop publishing there is a whole raft of alternative products that operate at a much lower level . |
| 19 | When you sign up for a savings scheme check the clauses for giving notice . |
| 20 | Long-time coffee drinkers continue to get the benefits and the effect is more marked among older people , said the Health and Lifestyle Survey published in the journal Psychopharmacology . |
| 21 | As long as the lads keep making the chances , we have a chance to get out of this . |
| 22 | and their drivers try to read the placards |
| 23 | Lambert forced his treacherous mind to keep alert , and made his tired eyes keep searching the wastes . |
| 24 | Many of the amendments tabled by the Opposition fail to recognise the duties and regulatory powers in existing legislation and in the licences . |
| 25 | 11.1 The Parties agree to exploit the Results in accordance the undertakings set out in paragraphs 24 , 25 and 26 of the Grant Offer Letter . |
| 26 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 27 | While we believe that their books do meet the criteria outlined above [ in the preceding paragraphs ] we have no doubt that so too do those of many authors who are favourites with children and teachers . ’ |
| 28 | The authors fail to emphasise the difficulties that arise from the lack of information available about indications for treatment . |
| 29 | Members of the Vietnam Veterans Association have rejected the findings and called for a Royal Commission into the issue . |
| 30 | The parents charter is an important part of that and I am glad that most schools have ignored the attitudes of those Labour authorities . |