Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 thousands of striking mineworkers and members of the CCOO and the SOMA-UGT set up barricades across roads and railways in the northern province of Asturias , protesting against plans announced the previous June which would entail the shedding of 6,000 jobs in the state mining company Hunosa by 1993 . |
| 2 | The courts applied the normal Brodie principles to ascertain therefore the nature of the payments by the trustees to the beneficiary . |
| 3 | It is best viewed from the north side , from where the four peaks dwarf the tiny Loch Hakel nestling at its feet and the three corries , home to wild deer , embrace the morning sunlight . |
| 4 | With these distinctions in mind , the following paragraphs summarise the relevant SFA Rules . |
| 5 | Ghali described the unilateral Polisario ceasefire in January 1990 ( a cessation of hostilities being achieved by April ) as a gesture of good faith in the UN peace plan . |
| 6 | Noble had returned in 1894 from Liverpool to London and , after some months attending the fashionable Bloomsbury Square chapel where Stopford Brooke preached to a large intellectual gathering , had decided to join the Unitarian chapel close to their new suburban home at 6 Patten Road , Wandsworth Common . |
| 7 | So CrossWind is adopting a client/server strategy with Unix on the server and clients running the native Mac , Windows or OS/2 interface . |
| 8 | Martin Cocks owns the Red Hart ( right ) at Awre , situated on the banks of the Severn in Gloucestershire . |
| 9 | Then turn to the D&S Times back page : ‘ Traders claim the new Darlington pedestrianisation scheme has cost them thousands in lost earnings , ’ says a splash report . |
| 10 | ‘ I advise our dear people and all Muslim nations to hold the international Qods Day ceremonies this year more warmly and enthusiastically than in previous years , ’ he said in the broadcast monitored in Nicosia . |
| 11 | ‘ What kind of books did the learned Jim censor ? ’ |
| 12 | The airline sells T-shirts , teddy-bears and a series of children 's books featuring the intrepid Joey , flown by the aptly-named Captain Keen . |
| 13 | This linking of two aspects of a teacher 's professionalism would prevent appraisal being regarded as simply a tiresome extra and could , on the positive side , help the process of planning ( West and Bollington 1990:9 — 10 ) : Planning for appraisal … needs to be carried forward in the light of the full range of the demands confronting the particular LEA , the particular school , the particular teacher . |
| 14 | It is sad to see that conservation bodies seem to have halted their attempts to purchase the key Cairngorms estate of Mar Lodge . |
| 15 | He came on after 51 minutes to replace the injured Francis , then was hauled off 11 minutes from the end in favour of Nigel Pearson . |
| 16 | The European Communities lifted the remaining EC economic sanctions against South Africa on Jan. 22 . |
| 17 | Delegates at Blackpool voted overwhelmingly to re-admit the EETPU now that it has merged with the engineers to form the million-strong AEEU . |
| 18 | The early amphibians spanned the late Devonian right up to the end of the Triassic , some 345 to 195 million years ago , as ‘ lords of the coal swamps ’ . |
| 19 | Fred Rodgers , an Ulster Unionist Party candidate in the Oldpark ward , said he supported the MP 's recent call for the people of Protestant west Belfast and surrounding areas to back the embattled RVH . |
| 20 | It can be seen that these functions satisfy the required O'Brien-Synge boundary conditions . |
| 21 | At a recent rugby jamboree in Kimberley the unification of these two bodies was formally completed so now it is up to the various officials and administrators to make the new South African Rugby Football Union really work . |
| 22 | Nails contemplated the wrecked Hoomey , clutching at his stitch , aware immediately of the dangers of the situation . |
| 23 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 24 | The Breskens Ferry ( eight guilders per car ) runs frequently , takes 20 minutes to cross the Western Scheldt , and offers a short-cut to Belgium from Vlissingen . |
| 25 | More than 260 Windows applications were on show , covering dedicated 32-bit applications for the 386 and 486 range of PCs , multimedia solutions for home and business based on the recently released Microsoft Video for Windows technology and applications using the new Microsoft Windows for Pens operating system . |
| 26 | Parkinson and his colleagues pointed out that out of seven regular observers using the Royal Greenwich Observatory 's meridian circle since 1851 , five produced self-consistent observations of the Sun 's diameter over each of their periods as observer . |
| 27 | On April 17 , security officials interrupted the Good Friday service of Mgr Roche to serve him with an expulsion order . |
| 28 | The next morning we had to pack up and leave , as we had made reservations to visit the other Cayman Islands before returning home . |
| 29 | This pernicious combination of rising inflation and rising unemployment , usually referred to as ‘ stagflation ’ , not only led economists to abandon the simple Phillips curve as a tool for modelling an inflationary process . |
| 30 | The accompanying article stated that many UNTAC officials saw the hardline Khmer Rouge position as designed to undermine its rivals " in a long-term strategy that looks beyond the [ May 1993 ] election period and is aimed ultimately at a unilateral seizure of power " . |