Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the activities involved in their programme , students will record their experiences , feelings , reactions and the skills used in setting up and implementing their programme . |
| 2 | The unfortunate animals apparently had poison bottles strapped to their backs , with the openings pointing towards their tails . |
| 3 | You also state : ‘ In the year to March 1992 , Japanese firms won 31% of the contracts financed by their country 's aid . ’ |
| 4 | We must not sanction the contracts lying on my right hon. Friend 's desk — and by that I mean that there should be no more contracts for gas generation . |
| 5 | In the light of the current debates on attribution surrounding both the paintings and drawings Martin Royalton-Kisch at the British Museum Prints and Drawings department , was pleased to note that the opinions expressed in his catalogue had generally been well-received and accepted , with less disagreement than might have been anticipated . |
| 6 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 7 | The vessel was probably made in the East Celtic area during the second or first century B.C. The representations give some insight into the deities imagined at the time as well as into some of the rituals involved in their worship . |
| 8 | We will work to strengthen the external frontiers of the Community whilst maintaining the checks needed at our own borders against illegal immigration , drugs , terrorism and disease . |
| 9 | William Wallace of Elderslie , son of a Renfrewshire landowner , was one of the lesser gentry who had not put his name to the document of submissions , known as the Ragman 's Roll because of the ribbons dangling from its seals . |
| 10 | However , once you have the hang of it , you will find that you are able to free yourself in a matter of seconds and still leave the ropes tied round your own and an accomplice 's wrists . |
| 11 | His chest burned savagely as the ropes bit into his skin . |
| 12 | Finally , the closure raft inched carefully into the remaining gap , and after the briefest hesitation the ramps dropped into their receiving lugs and were pinned . |
| 13 | She adjusted the scarf to cover the bruises forming on her neck . |
| 14 | Manchester City were just one of the clubs impressed by his aggressive style a style which helped dump the Frist Division side out of the Rumbelows League Cup and FA Cup at Ayresome Park . |
| 15 | Touche believes the balance sheet treatment of capitalising expenditure on players ' registrations as an intangible asset has commercial logic , but does not favour revaluing players ' registrations in the accounts according to their current market worth . |
| 16 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 17 | Migrants gave three main reasons for not having taken the course at the institutions involved in our research . |
| 18 | Now the suits get into our very parlours in Capital City , a long running television saga of banking folk . |
| 19 | The stick he was holding caught fire and he held it as it flared up , watching the flames draw near his hand , feeling the heat on the skin , then the pain . |
| 20 | And beyond , a nightmare creature , barely perceived in the swirling dense smoke , beating at the flames coming from its own body . |
| 21 | Ratagan stood with his hands spread to the fire and the flames winking on his axe blade . |
| 22 | Then the flames licked at her fingers and she dropped what was left of True Love at her high-heeled feet . |
| 23 | Meredith sat back , feeling the heat of the flames play on her face and relaxing . |
| 24 | The little stone winked like a red star in the firelight and Carrie thought of Mrs Gotobed , suddenly ; of the time she 'd had tea with her and of the way the flames danced in her rings as she stroked the silk of her dress . |
| 25 | Similarly , Johnston ( 1983 ) describes the patterns discovered in his Edinburgh work as ‘ irregular ’ . |
| 26 | And , without further ado , I was marched back into the hall , placed on the dais , the heralds braying on their trumpets . |
| 27 | The land in the king 's gift , however , did not include the estates held in her own right by the countess Elizabeth , widow of the twelfth earl , which included substantial further holdings in Suffolk and Essex . |
| 28 | The land in the king 's gift , however , did not include the estates held in her own right by the countess Elizabeth , widow of the twelfth earl , which included substantial further holdings in Suffolk and Essex . |
| 29 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |
| 30 | — Social workers and other local authority staff who visit people in their own homes might be used to educate parents about the dangers faced by their children . |