Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She really has been treated badly at the Reeds . |
| 2 | In 1986 the following causes were pressed successfully by the Lords : wider consultation rights for workers in relation to reorganization of the naval dockyards ; local authorities to decide whether tenants should have the right to buy old people 's properties ; abolition of caning in schools ; application of health and safety laws to all buildings used by the national health service . |
| 3 | These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration . |
| 4 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
| 5 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |
| 6 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 7 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 8 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 9 | ‘ We pulled out all the stops to produce extra stock needed to meet the charter flights , so the paint could be flown in over the weekends . ’ |
| 10 | Oh yes we the boys were taught along with the girls , yes we were , we were all on , just in the one room . |
| 11 | If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km . |
| 12 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 13 | Completed forms were checked manually by the supervisors , before independent data entry into computers by two clerks . |
| 14 | Thus , many users prefer to stay hidden regardless of the problems that this might cause their families or themselves . |
| 15 | The map sections should be joined together without the seams being visible . |
| 16 | The method depended on pouring molten gold with a melting-point lower than that of the pieces to be joined together into the interstices between them : on cooling the separate parts would be found to have bonded together . |
| 17 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 18 | Three Chester students who set up their own company — called ‘ No Frills ’ — making everything from Jewellery to boxer shorts , took the BNFL award which is given annually to the operators of the best company . |
| 19 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 20 | Reconsider this planned essay with the introduction broken down into the parts as suggested . |
| 21 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 22 | Alcohol is broken down by the chemicals called enzymes in the liver through which blood circulates once every four minutes . |
| 23 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 24 | It is well developed all round the Carpathians , in Czechoslovakia , Poland and Romania and then through the Balkan Mountains of Bulgaria ( plate 1.3 ) and across the Black Sea to the Crimea and the Caucasus ( plate 1.4 ) . |
| 25 | A month later , Churchill told the Commons that the role of the ‘ overlords ’ had developed naturally from the functions of Cabinet-committee chairmen in the Second World War and that ‘ the co-ordinating Ministers have no statutory powers . |
| 26 | Topics are likely to be examined only from the viewpoints held within the individual disciplines . |
| 27 | Instead we leave the pictures to be stripped in at the printers , and get a better image as a result . |
| 28 | The Museum , although having a modern exterior , was originally built around a Moorish bath-house Commemorative plaques of the Rock 's historical past have been posted all over the streets and buildings . |
| 29 | In the end , de Gaulle could only secure peace at the expense of a series of humiliating concessions to the FLN — concessions which could be justified only on the grounds that they averted the yet higher costs of not making them . |
| 30 | First there was a vague lightening of the sky ahead , then the drumming of the rain was less persistent , the lesser darkness in the heavens spread until it was over them , they could distinguish the greater irregularities of the ground , the last few drops of rain splashed down and a blissful silence spread around them broken only by the sibillations of the water draining away among the rocks and the splash of their sodden feet . |