Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cabbages ( part of the Wilderness had been a vegetable patch ) armed themselves with woody bark ; rhubarb threw off weak elastic branches ; roses shed superfluous petals and muscled into the potato patch ; vegetables , weeds and shrubs increased their ranks or sizes while snowdrifts or perennial flowers transformed the land . |
| 2 | Peaty podzols or peaty gleys occupy the mounds and steeper slopes . |
| 3 | These linear road junction sites clearly satisfied the basic land requirements of the resident population , and for many there were clearly no social , economic or administrative pressures to encourage the creation of a more centralized and compact urban centre . |
| 4 | A report published at the end of January by the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances highlighted the killing of civilians in Sri Lanka , particularly in connection with the security forces ' campaign ( which peaked in late 1989 and early 1990 ) to eliminate the Sinhala insurgent Janatha Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) in the south of the country [ see pp. 37042 ; 37353 ] . |
| 5 | The naval blockade was extended to a total of seven ports including Split ( where Croatian forces blockaded the naval base ) and Dubrovnik . |
| 6 | It was the ‘ export ’ provinces , which supplied a more general market , where economic changes shifted the balance of society . |
| 7 | Horse to horse contact directly or via feed , water troughs , pasture or stable fittings pass the infection to susceptible horses . |
| 8 | Paul Accola of Switzerland took the overall World Cup title ahead of Tomba last year and the Italian 's refusal to compete in the super-G or downhill races mean the crown will probably elude him once more this year . |
| 9 | Men and people in managerial or professional occupations preferred the policy-making aspects , while women and people in manual occupations preferred dealing with the problems of individuals . |
| 10 | Choreographers should note the particular relationships between steps and notes , enchaînements and phrases and how strong or weak beats affect the rhythm . |
| 11 | Prions ‘ adapted ’ to either hamster or mouse were inoculated into hamsters , normal mice , or transgeneic mice carrying the hamster PrP transgene . |
| 12 | At West Stow , where sunken buildings outnumber the ‘ halls ’ , the former clearly cluster around the halls in distinct groups . |
| 13 | Moated sites indicating a former manor or grange are common , as are sites of fishponds , remaining as dry grassy hollows , or linear banks indicating the former dams . |
| 14 | As these are decorations and not toys , you can use glass or pearl-headed pins to make the halo , either pushing them right into the head like a wreath , or half-way in so that the halo stands away from the head . |
| 15 | The text of the appeal court judgement , where trained judges form the majority , will not be made public until 2 November . |
| 16 | Similarly , desecrated shrines or graves are doomed to suffer from continued hauntings , and the ghosts of murdered lovers or deserted children assail the living in their quest for post-mortem justice . |
| 17 | Instead of following the movements of heavenly bodies , we rely on mechanical or electronic clocks to tell the time . |
| 18 | The hotel was a factory where itinerant shift-workers put the finishing touches to pleasure and pain . |
| 19 | Once you have placed the leaves in position you can then add some fillers or feathery pieces to soften the outline . |
| 20 | A subsequent pregnancy may re-awaken grief and anger if the birth mother feels she was forced by her parents or social circumstances to have the previous baby adopted . |
| 21 | The question needs to be asked , whether such limitations would be valid on moral , ethical or social grounds given the disparities that exist in living standards … |
| 22 | Talk of magic in the Western World as a spent force : self-congratulatory accounts of cults that had been infiltrated , and discovered to be groups of pseudo-scientists exchanging arcane theories in a language no two of them agreed upon , or sexual obsessives using the excuse of workings to demand favours they could n't seduce from their partners or , most often , crazies in search of some mythology , however ludicrous , to keep them from complete psychosis . |
| 23 | Accidents , both from injuries or harmful substances entering the eye , can cause scarring and ulceration . |
| 24 | Noxious or harmful stimuli attacking the organism from without — from the outside environment . |
| 25 | Bede , drawing on Canterbury sources , says that when Eadric died , various usurpers or foreign kings plundered the kingdom until the rightful king , Wihtred , son of Ecgberht , established himself on the throne ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 26 | Where different professionals have the same skills , role within the team may become interchangeable . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , very considerable experience of using groups for this kind of research shows that they do tend to produce very consistent results , even where different researchers cover the same problem . |
| 28 | When technical or commercial factors limit the number of significant publishing organizations to a handful of major companies freedom , variety , and debate may have to be internalized within them . |
| 29 | Wearing the uniform of the wrestling ring , where masked men representing the forces of good fight others representing evil , Superbarrio has found other pursuits more of a challenge . |
| 30 | In the absence of secondary causes including primary lung disease , primary left sided heart and valvular disease or systemic diseases affecting the pulmonary vasculature , PHT is considered primary . |