Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Uist in sunshine in March is not common but the visual beauty is hard to beat and Lochboisdale Branch situated at the waters edge looked in as good fettle as I have ever seen it . |
| 2 | She screeched while his rump heaved , her snout rammed between the bars of the pen . |
| 3 | The hearing will be adjourned pending the delivery of the High Court 's opinion , at which time it will be relisted and a decision given on the merits in the light of the High Court 's opinion on the law . |
| 4 | All four children had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosed between the ages of 2 and 4 years , the year of diagnosis ranging from 1972 to 1988 . |
| 5 | The serums were mainly calf lymph for the whooping cough patients , and the diphtheria anti-toxin given to the patients who needed this . |
| 6 | Thus whereas the bare infinitive allows for the incidence of its event to a support situated within the confines of event time , the mechanism of incidence provided for by the verb form itself is inoperative when called upon express an incidence to a support situated prior to the time contained in the event . |
| 7 | My Lords , the underlying subject matter of these tax appeals is the correct basis for valuing benefits in kind received by the taxpayers who are schoolmasters . |
| 8 | As to more general options for change , the Board referred to the possibilities of exclusive or semi-exclusive ‘ contracting , ’ and of ‘ franchising . ’ |
| 9 | In saying this , I do not overlook the enormous amount of on the whole useful and imaginative work on a new-style curriculum undertaken by the Schools Council . |
| 10 | Partly due to the ban placed on the authors ' disclosing anything about ‘ intelligence techniques ’ ( p. x ) , which has been rigidly enforced . |
| 11 | It was whistling slightly , as some part hidden in the cowlings cooled down . |
| 12 | What the government did not bargain for was the public outrage and the massive support given to the demonstrations . |
| 13 | In a tough speech to the Crime Reporters ' Association he said the IRA would cease their evil trade if they could see the level of public support given to the police — much of it from the Irish community . |
| 14 | She was disappointed at the lack of support given by the teachers and she had felt embarrassed by their absence . |
| 15 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 16 | In part to complement the broad-based approach towards co-ordination developed within the CATS , the Inner City Initiative was launched in 1986 to increase Private-sector investment in small urban areas that were subject to high unemployment rates . |
| 17 | The circulation depends on having enough blood in the system to fill the vessels , on the small arteries acting as taps which can be adjusted to send the blood where it is needed , and on the heart beating hard enough to push the blood through the resistance given by the taps . |
| 18 | He appreciated that the literature favoured by the twins made little distinction between people and animals . |
| 19 | After the Labour group meeting , which was held in private , Councillor Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian administration , said the referendum depended on the proposals put forward in a white paper which Mr Lang was due to publish . |
| 20 | ‘ a little , red-faced , sly-looking ginger-beer seller ’ , the defendant in a ‘ brawling ’ case heard before the Arches Court in Doctor 's Commons . |
| 21 | Edward 's first responsibility was for the receipt and expenditure of the money assigned for the operations , a responsibility discharged through a special exchequer set up in 1246 , over which he presided . |
| 22 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 23 | During the ninth century a struggle developed for the souls of the Slavs between the two Christian confessions , the Eastern Church based in Byzantium and the Western Church based in Rome . |
| 24 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 25 | In the middle of the road was a flattened , bloody mass of brown prickles and white fur , with small , black feet and snout crushed round the edges . |
| 26 | ‘ Team spirit and research expertise developed over the years would be lost . ’ |
| 27 | They 'd thrown her into a Jeep and driven her into the Heide , through the woods , to a large wooden building hidden in the trees . |
| 28 | Another writer commented on the implications for staffing , recalling the importance of this contingency in course planning in Figure 1.1 : |
| 29 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 30 | When the wind was in the west a sickly smell floated over the pits . |