Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb base] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find out more , telephone 01– and ask for a copy of our 1989 Report and Accounts or send the coupon below : |
| 2 | By this time , however , the military crisis was over , and Henry abruptly demanded that Anselm should either comply with his wishes or leave the country . |
| 3 | I would rather mend hedges & follow the plough , than write another . ’ |
| 4 | It works by disrupting the market and presenting the employer with a choice either to close operations or concede the union 's demands . |
| 5 | You can rid of deodorant stains by making a paste out of bicarbonate or soda and salt and applying this to the stain for 15 , minutes or soak the garment in a biological detergent . |
| 6 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 7 | ‘ We would hope to get some of that back to replenish the reserves or spend the money on other desirable schemes . ’ |
| 8 | But in the Epilogue , as opposed to the body of Crime and Punishment , people do n't torture animals or bear the mark of Peter the German . |
| 9 | Every day about noon [ the monarch ] sits upon his throne , with some of his sons at his right and left , while the eunuchs who stand about the royal person flap away the flies with peacock tails or agitate the air with large fans … |
| 10 | For example , an elder ( like the rest of us ) will get up , go to the toilet , go through familiar washing routines , make tea , collect the paper from the front door , and perhaps walk down to the shops or catch the bus into town , with competence and efficiency . |
| 11 | Order through Victoria Wine branches or call the hotline on 0800 526464 . |
| 12 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 13 | Last week , my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science said that he was not going to tell teachers how to teach in primary schools or pre-empt the outcome of the inquiry that he had just announced . |
| 14 | If there is a drop in demand the informal outfit has to carry the risks and absorb the shock of fluctuations in the market . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll put an awning up there in case it rains , and we can have a coke brazier to roast some chestnuts and heat the chocolate . |
| 16 | One of England 's finest DJs , Lisa Loud , summed it all up by saying , ‘ Look between the ears and see the brain , that is what is important . ’ |
| 17 | It will insist on positive discrimination on grounds of race and sex , reduce the age of homosexual consent , ban the killing of foxes and encourage the killing of human foetuses . |
| 18 | He leaned the chair back on two legs and put the sole of one shoe against the bedrails , then pulled on the rope of nylon until his biceps began to crack . |
| 19 | well they 're just , you know , do n't push them hard though Jeff you 'll bend the legs and snap the board |
| 20 | Straighten the legs and pull the head and shoulders down towards the knees . |
| 21 | Bone the legs and mince the leg meat , pork fat and 4oz of the duck livers through the coarse plate of the mincer . |
| 22 | For older children , make goals at either end of the room out of chair legs and give the point to the first person to score . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd lie under the covers and make the noise he makes when he 's breathing , and then I 'd stop , but sometimes it would go on after I 'd stopped ! ’ |
| 24 | But a printing mistake left it reading : ‘ This Christmas , Roger Price suggests you stuff the kids and shoot the turkey . ’ |
| 25 | If there are many cells some can specialize as sensors to detect prey , others as nerves to pass on the message , others as stinging cells to paralyse the prey , muscle cells to move tentacles and catch the prey , secretory cells to dissolve it and yet others to absorb the juices . |
| 26 | Later sections of the chapter explain how you divide your essay into paragraphs and signal the relationship between them . |
| 27 | A Captain Beechey , sent by the newly established Marine Department of the Board of Trade to discuss their grievances and explain the Act had some difficulty in convincing his audience that Shipping Officers were intended to be the seamen 's friends , and that the Register Ticket , far from being a " badge of slavery " , gave them advantages . |
| 28 | The brewers wanted to convert the landlord 's accommodation into offices and turn the lounge into a toilet . |
| 29 | Candidates must be on the party 's national list of approved candidates and require the endorsement of one of the party 's regional committees to get on that list . |
| 30 | In this context job-related selection tests which have been properly validated can help obtain information from candidates and improve the objectivity of the recruitment process which will undoubtedly include interviews . |