Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seals and walrus live around the coasts , minke whales , belugas and other cetaceans are often seen , and of course there are the birds . |
| 2 | The original trigger for the stories was a note sent to clients by Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Daniel Mandresh , in which he said he believed that IBM plans to cut as many as 40,000 jobs this year , which would require yet another charge of about $1,000m to make up the provisions short-fall . |
| 3 | With small fish tape back the corners of the bags so that there are no crannies into which the fish might wedge . |
| 4 | confusing because you 've got two people bringing in the ideas , |
| 5 | Such surveys , whether by sea or land , again required not merely naturalists to accompany them , but museum staff to write up the collections and make the knowledge public . |
| 6 | That is , according to false memory syndrome theorists , somehow the process of therapy , the process of disclosure , the process of interviewing people to find out the details of the abuse , somehow that constructs the abuse itself , somehow that 's erm the thing that 's that 's causing the memories . |
| 7 | ‘ And are n't I the one forever telling people to find out the facts first ? |
| 8 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |
| 9 | ‘ One is a world of natural phenomena , or light and rain and people passing down the roads , or things happening , or excitement and peace and of music ending . |
| 10 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 11 | When a different set of people takes up the questions , this becomes obvious . |
| 12 | Joseph 's people pulled up the stakes that the surveyors planted , but after the ratification of the Thief Treaty the next year , they continued to arrive . |
| 13 | Please do not think that only suicidal people ring up the Samaritans . |
| 14 | It was half-past four , when the dairy people brought in the cows . |
| 15 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 16 | The merits of the argument were accepted notwithstanding , and gradually the Lord Chancellor and his staff took over the appointments of the chairmen of most , and the members of many , tribunals . |
| 17 | Glue-sniffing means breathing in the vapours given off by certain types of glue in order to get intoxicated or ‘ high ’ , rather like getting drunk on alcohol . |
| 18 | Staff pull out the stops to win first export order |
| 19 | She watched groups of people come round the winners , groups of friends going into the two pubs on the harbour street , people hailing each other , saving places of vantage on the wall for their friends . |
| 20 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 21 | Some people pointed out the advantages of their work from a personal point of view . |
| 22 | In contrast , a few people pointed out the disadvantages that could arise as a result of being disabled when interacting with patients or clients . |
| 23 | There are so many to admire … the young river , rushing headlong over the Linn of Dee … salmon leaping up the Falls of Feugh … the austere beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery always surrounds you in this gloriously unspoilt land . |
| 24 | It has been estimated that over 10,000 duck of fifteen different species breed round the margins and islands of the lake , as well as whooper swans , great northern and red-throated divers , Slavonian grebes and greylag geese . |
| 25 | THE NIGHT AN ABUSIVE PUB PAIR TOOK ON THE POLICE |
| 26 | The FRS sets out the conditions under which an undertaking that is the parent of other undertakings should prepare consolidated financial statements . |
| 27 | Straight and narrow Part one of David Stevens ' new series sets out the plans for his transformation of a long , narrow garden . |