Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Soviet equipment is not always of an adequate standard , Western equipment is often over-sophisticated for Soviet purposes , demanding much by way of supporting technologies which in the USSR simply do not exist . |
| 2 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 3 | It was also one which , in all the circumstances , should have been taken by the hospital authorities themselves on the Monday . |
| 4 | The United States adopts a liberal approach and some foreign judges have actually been sworn in as commissioners by American courts , e.g. , German and Italian judges have been allowed to execute the Letters themselves in the United States by examining witnesses in their own language and according to their own procedures . |
| 5 | ‘ Now that you 've expressed your condolences what about the Fraser girl ? ’ |