Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom . |
| 2 | They drove along the empty country roads , then passed through a couple of small , sleepy villages , the soft golden stone of the houses reflecting the warm sunlight . |
| 3 | Why do authorities make the little things in life so difficult ? |
| 4 | ‘ Sir David English was not informed of the visit and in consequence had no plans to attend the Ideal Home Exhibition that day , ’ the official statement announced . |
| 5 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 6 | The private sector would remain separate and the public would have the right to be covered by it if they wished — having first paid their taxes to support the general service . |
| 7 | The ideal is to have several simply-administered taxes to support the national exchequer , levied after people have earned their pay or income . |
| 8 | While these authorities restated the general rule attention was focused upon attempts to formulate and analyse the exceptions , especially where rights were accepted as having been bestowed upon a third party . |
| 9 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 10 | It has been reported that the addition of minute amounts of phosphatidylcholines normalised the short nucleation time of bile from patients with cholesterol gall stones while having only a minimal effect on the cholesterol saturation index . |
| 11 | Drains to carry the dirty water underground to the main sewer , septic tank or cesspool . |
| 12 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 13 | Liberal Democrats believe that expanding and utilising to the full scientific and technological talents offers the only chance of improving our performance and reversing the long tale of our relative economic decline . |
| 14 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 15 | Their discussions produced the Linggajati Agreement , as it is called from the hill station where they met ( 12 November ) . |
| 16 | In terms of arguments about the Caucasian Albanians , a people which no longer exists but which in the Middle Ages inhabited the disputed region . |
| 17 | In the least ‘ radical ’ forms , the home authorities remain the main providers of services , but the purchasing of services from other health authorities is increased . |
| 18 | In the least ‘ radical ’ forms , the home authorities remain the main providers of services , but purchasing of services from other health authorities is increased . |
| 19 | Will employers prefer the new graduates to the A level employees , and , where will the graduates with their already developed learning skills obtain their building surveyor education ? |
| 20 | Below all these strata lay the immemorial peasant base of straight barter and the still-important tax in kind . |
| 21 | Wildlife experts fear the calm weather may return too late to save them . |
| 22 | In the 1991 Employee Report , we outlined our plans to penetrate the Middle East market . |
| 23 | The remaining yeast in the casks turns the residual sugars into alcohol while the natural gas produced escapes through a soft porous wooden peg knocked into the shive hole on top of the cask . |
| 24 | Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top . |
| 25 | From early on , Hollywood used British stories and lured British actors , later also directors and technicians , across the Atlantic , while making a mint out of British cinemagoers and developing strategies to drive the local product off the nation 's screens . |
| 26 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 27 | Then the pendulum swung too far in the other direction , towards an assertion that the Russians avoided the unpleasant aspects of colonialism as exemplified in Spanish , Portuguese or British experience . |
| 28 | He backed the plans to support the uneconomic farms and asked : ‘ Do we really need to compress the traditions and vitality of rural life and culture into the straitjacket of an industry like any other ? ’ |
| 29 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 30 | Overhead he could now hear the dull roar and crackle of fire , as the hungry flames devoured the old house above him . |