Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 All Russian attempts to penetrate the Teleuts ' territories were opposed , since they regarded themselves as overlords in the northern Altai .
2 Using these forms has the advantage of enabling the selection personnel to compare the applicants ' responses and qualifications quickly and easily .
3 My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own .
4 His death-warrant bore 58 signatures , headed by that of John Bradshaw who , born in Marple in 1602 , may have attended the School in his youth ; however , if he did , it seems to have made but little impression on him , for in his will he made bequests to increase the Masters ' salaries at his other schools , Bunbury and Middleton , and to found a new school in Marple , without mentioning Stockport .
5 ANC officials called for police help during the weekend of April 13-14 when some 500 armed Inkatha supporters attacked a workers ' hostel near the Mandelas ' home in Soweto .
6 They introduce the ‘ Son of man ’ , and the relationships between Christianity and other religions whose heaps of broken images strew the anthropologists ' pages and the sites of the world 's past cultures .
7 Fundamentalist missionaries challenge the settlers ' church .
8 Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) .
9 Mike Blaisdell and Rick Brebant both scored three goals to inflict the Pirates ' first defeat in the quarter-finals .
10 The efforts of priests and missionaries to eradicate the Indians ' ancestral beliefs produced profound emotional disturbances as well as great changes in their conception of the world .
11 Waller 's informants illustrated the residents ' reluctance to oppose the companies , for fear of losing their jobs and homes .
12 It could be argued that the weights reflect the decision-makers ' theory of investment desirability , but what theory could rate NPV 333 per cent more important than process yield and ten times as important as basic R&D ?
13 Then Lyman 's Ears replaced the cadets ' ordinary lugs , which were sliced away and quarried out …
14 In a letter to the policy boards of the two institutions on Sept. 18 , the Institute of International Finance ( IIF — representing 184 banks and financial institutions worldwide ) criticized what it saw as IMF " tolerance " of overdue interest payments to the banks , claiming that such arrears discouraged the banks ' involvement in the Brady Plan .
15 Whilst some schools have a teachers ' library the range of resources available seems poor .
16 Other amenities include a children 's restaurant and shop .
17 As might be expected , most advertisements incorporated in books proclaim the publishers ' own wares-but with books issued in parts , such as those of Dickens , they can be a joyous medley covering everything from top hats to mouse traps , pills to perambulators and hair oils to phrenology .
18 It is clear that computer designers need the chemists ' understanding of the physical and chemical properties of silicon and the III-Vs and the rules under which they seem to operate at the atomic and molecular levels .
19 Other opportunities include the Magistrates ' Courts Service , law centres , charities , and even the armed services .
20 The researchers compared the children 's health and lung function with their weight and how many weeks they were in the womb .
21 The General Commissioners dismissed the taxpayers ' appeal , accepting the Crown 's arguments that there was one practice and that an election under para 21(2) could not be made where a trade was split into two .
22 v. British Railways Board even though the goods were in no danger and the defendants recognised the plaintiffs ' title : the shortage of stock caused by industrial action was acute and damages would not adequately compensate the plaintiffs for the injury to their business .
23 Top ticket price at Washington 's Uptown Theatre was £6,500 , the lowest £150 , while about 300 inner-city youngsters went free as proceeds boosted a children 's charity .
24 The General Commissioners upheld the taxpayers ' claims to allowances and the Crown appealed to the High Court .
25 Second , few of the evaluations discuss the donors ' own role in promoting some of the weaknesses in project design .
26 As far as the school was concerned , the fact that so many parents attended a parents ' evening was ‘ an indication of the kind of area we are dealing with … where parents are interested in their children 's education and want to play as full a part as possible . ’
27 Could it have been that the upholders contested the undertakers ' application to join their guild , on the pretext that the furnishing of funerals was the prerogative of their members ?
28 The parents left the Children 's Panel offices looking tense and drawn .
29 Once , her taut nerves convinced her there were footsteps leaving the typists ' room and she dropped to her knees at the side of the desk where someone glancing in would not see her .
30 To wit , the kind of speed on to man and ball and to the breakdown which would in itself render it a great deal more difficult for the All Blacks to make the Lions ' pack look heavy-footed to the point of statuesque .
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