Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also led to closer contacts between the dancers as they moved from picture to picture within the design . |
| 2 | The Co Down side are likely to prove easier opponents for the Blues than last night 's adversaries , Georgian team Dinamo Tbilisi . |
| 3 | We used the number of deaths at 3 , 6 , 9 , 12 , and 18 months as the endpoints because we were unable to obtain all the individual data . |
| 4 | It is possible to regard the perceived characteristics of the universities as both strengths and weaknesses , to applaud or to regret their commitment to the ‘ guardianship ’ of knowledge and their resistance to performing the ‘ wider service ’ , and in both cases to end up with the binary policy . |
| 5 | Support for the Alliance was weaker amongst readers of the tabloids than readers of the quality press : all perhaps as expected . |
| 6 | Christmas is for most of us a magical moment in the year when we gather with our families , sing familiar carols and see the delight in the eyes of the children as they open their stockings and presents . |
| 7 | Shannon started to shake , hearing again the playground taunts , seeing the looks in the eyes of the children as they danced about her , holding hands and chanting , keeping her captive in the middle of the circle . |
| 8 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
| 9 | On this occasion his achievements were measured in terms of the £160,000 which his departments had contributed to rate relief during his tenure : ‘ No man is more deserving of the thanks of the ratepayers than Mr. Furness whose enthusiasm and enterprise has made his department 's a wonderful source of revenue for the town ’ . |
| 10 | It is important , however , that you understand some aspects of the rules if you are to make sense of the electronic spectra of inorganic species . |
| 11 | To this I find no difficulty in replying briskly that the human 's consciousness does not have the consciousnesses of the homunculi as parts any more than two Siamese Twins that share digestive organs have the unity and separateness of their respective consciousnesses compromised . |
| 12 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 13 | Er n back to these snaps that erm John takes but as I said they 're pictures of the rooms before he alters them , before he puts in a new decor , th the upholstery , furnishings and the erm |
| 14 | Data collectors visited the homes of the infants when they were approximately three weeks old and collected urine samples , which were then independently analysed for the presence of cotinine . |
| 15 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 16 | It also helps to vary the shapes of the flowers as well as their colours : for example , hydrangeas are much more pointed in shape than roses , and the petals of potentillas are widely spaced and so give a more pronounced petal shape . |
| 17 | They are the chimes and clocks and calendars of the trees for they mark the seasons and arouse the trees from their long slumbers and announce the dawns . |
| 18 | However , the DUP still enjoys better relationships with the paramilitaries than does the Official Unionist Party . |
| 19 | Where the foot passenger steps onto the limits before the vehicle reaches them , the driver must accord precedence . |
| 20 | And they go around er and you warn them about the erm the steep steps into the rooms because the oak is quite deep . |
| 21 | Such realities , as pressing for some heads in the suburbs as in the inner city , presented an agenda which primary orthodoxies addressed only partly , if at all . |
| 22 | in the stables we we do exactly with the lads in the stables as the jockeys do in the weighing room . |
| 23 | The best performance by Scots in the individual events , was a silver medal for Pam Hamilton and Joy Reid in the women 's doubles in 1977 but there have been five other Scottish bronze medal performances in the doubles since the championships began in 1969 . |
| 24 | By representing words in the definitions as integers , storage requirements decrease dramatically and efficient sorting routines become easily applicable . |
| 25 | She has consistently refused to accept food and other necessities from the authorities as she believes that by accepting such favours she would be condoning her illegal detention . |
| 26 | They had n't the appeal of the stinking lanes fitfully lit by naphtha flares in the souks when a fair went on long into the night . |
| 27 | He exploited a temporary lull in affairs to extract more concessions from the Romans than had hitherto been possible . |
| 28 | The contours of one 's outer ears are therefore able to contribute their subtle characteristics to the sounds as in direct hearing . |
| 29 | Candidates are required to sell themselves to the voters not so much on the strength of their stands on the issues as on their personal qualities . |
| 30 | I think we 're being kind of unfair when it comes to football pa fans on the terraces because the majority of people who go and watch football are not hooligans . |