Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb -s] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My commandant accepts the conclusions of the médecin légiste and instructs me to abandon my enquiries . ’ |
| 2 | My cat scares the dogs . |
| 3 | One of my officials chairs the experts committee that laid the groundwork for this achievement . |
| 4 | The final part of my paper concerns the difficulties of successfully translating policies into practice . |
| 5 | Somerset provided the supreme example of the amateur emphasis and my collection includes the autographs of W.T Creswell , G.F. Earle ( that mighty hitter ! ) . |
| 6 | As well as St Helen Auckland my parish covers the villages of Cockfield , Woodland , and Butterknowle . ’ |
| 7 | Her camp confirms the lengths to which Kylie is prepared to go to maintain the environment-friendly campaign and reveals she REFUSES to handle everyday plastics , because they can not be broken down naturally and pose a threat to the habitat . |
| 8 | The definition in the relevant statute which supports their case uses the words ‘ regardless of physical form or characteristic . ’ ; |
| 9 | All political parties are agreed that Britain needs more graduates , its industry needs the products of high level research and there is a continued drive to extend the frontiers of medical science . |
| 10 | The narratorial simile guides the reader ; its deletion shows the peoples ' world-view . |
| 11 | The task of finding enough food for their offspring dominates the lives of most parents during the breeding season . |
| 12 | Its range includes the coasts of China and India and as far south as the shore of Australia and Tasmania . |
| 13 | Its work covers the causes , prevention , treatment and cure of cancer . |
| 14 | were best achieved by organisations that held secure positions inside the enterprise , and unlike their European counterparts the unions in North America insisted on establishing their presence in the plant itself and not merely outside it . |
| 15 | Mum Ann , east Belfast born and bred , is hoping her boy helps the Glens to victory . |
| 16 | Its logo bears the words ‘ Giving music its due ’ — I thought that meant that composers would receive theirs , too . |
| 17 | Make sure the food is set out in an attractive way so that its appearance makes the children excited . |
| 18 | That had to ne injected daily , but her husband recalls the injections being much less frequent . |
| 19 | If Spain is to keep up its tourist figures the resorts need to move with the times by providing clean beaches and modernised hotels . |
| 20 | Because its business involves the Inns as well as the Bar , the JRC is a joint committee whose members are nominated by the Bar Council , the Inns ' Council and the individual Inns . |
| 21 | Their father owns the buildings and fields in which we keep the horses . |
| 22 | The columns of unc are thus mutually orthogonal ; this is the purpose of evaluating Mo : its use orthogonalises the columns , an our ultimate objective is the orthogonal set Y. |
| 23 | Lison-Tolosana , for example , has shown that suffering imposed by elders on their juniors leads the juniors to take a more or less hostile and reactive view of history ( Lison-Tolosana , 1966 ) . |
| 24 | The sound it emits scans the scene in front of it , rather like a beam of light , and its brain uses the echoes received to form a " sound picture " of the scene . |
| 25 | Their system incorporates the contents of several CD-ROMs onto a single , gigantic hard disc of about 2 gigabytes . |
| 26 | The highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 27 | Its creation represents the energies and commitment of organisations — individuals over many months . |
| 28 | Travel : Doing the Twist with the wild men of Borneo In search of excitement : a teenager describes an arduous trek on the other side of the world ; her mother describes the difficulties of dealing with an adventurous daughter . |
| 29 | His pastry has the makings of a vrai maître . |
| 30 | The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear , in order to maximise the insult and humiliation ( and hence the damages ) . |