Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elf astrologers and geomancers studied the portents to divine the best time for the new king to begin his reign , and calculated the best time for him to pass through the flame . |
| 2 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 3 | Suggestive crop-marks at the point where the projected line of the defences meets the emerging east-west street have also been photographed from the air , but proof of another gate here will have to wait for excavation . |
| 4 | The very size of the defences emphasizes the local wealth available when compared with other large and small towns in the province . |
| 5 | If the essays describe the exciting journey , the postcard gallery , the sandwich lunch and little else , the content analysis of such essays will be quite illuminating ! |
| 6 | The remaining yeast in the casks turns the residual sugars into alcohol while the natural gas produced escapes through a soft porous wooden peg knocked into the shive hole on top of the cask . |
| 7 | But the circulars reflect the changing picture on the ground , revealed in the national monitoring exercises conducted by the SSI and health regions . |
| 8 | Twenty-four hour , 365 days a year fast emergency response is included in the contracts to ensure the maximum convenience to customers and guests |
| 9 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 10 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 11 | As well as the Coronation , the crowds lining the rain-soaked streets of London , and at street parties and gathered round the spate of new television sets the Coronation had sparked , were also celebrating some news from the other side of the world . |
| 12 | It was some time after the crowds stormed the Presidential Palace compound in northern Bucharest in the late morning of 22 December 1989 that they found a confused old lady in a bungalow in the grounds . |
| 13 | At first the mobbers showed the typical agitated response but then , when the stuffed bird failed to retaliate , they dashed in for violent physical assaults on its body . |
| 14 | One of the checks computes the current reference pixel count as a percentage of a previously saved ‘ normal ’ value . |
| 15 | He stresses the ways in which the period from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s saw the effective by-passing of local elites , including councillors , because of the development of other central-local linkages . |
| 16 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 17 | The solicitors informed the local authority that they would be applying for an order for costs against the authority . |
| 18 | Soldiers quickly reinforce the road-blocks to stop the emerging onlookers from reviewing the scene . |
| 19 | It is thought that the Panel considered that the accounts breached the true and fair spirit of the Companies Act , rather than a specific rule . |
| 20 | The institutions remain the same . |
| 21 | The crackle of the flames woke the old man , and he tried to open his door . |
| 22 | Behind me , the candle I had so carefully placed in the dry straw in the garret of Le Coq d'Or kindled into life and the flames turned the evil tavern into a blazing inferno . |
| 23 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 24 | At one level , the shareholders have the inalienable right to dismiss directors by a simple majority vote under s 303 Companies Act 1985 . |
| 25 | The discussions encompassed the minimum programme for such a peacetime coalition . |
| 26 | The salary-ranges reflect the increased responsibilities involved in their managerial and policy-making functions and are in turn set according to the size of the local authority and its population base . |
| 27 | There are a number of problems to be found in the attempts to explain the low level of female crime as being due to physical or mental maladjustment . |
| 28 | What my analysis suggests is that the denials of professional responsibility , and the attempts to limit the economic consequences of being professionals , are not very convincing to a public that can observe auditors in a position of power dominated by economic self-interest . |
| 29 | Into Edinburgh by late lunch-time , past the signs trumpeting the up-coming Euro-summit . |
| 30 | But in these nursery nests , the kittens took the first nipple they came across , regardless of whether it was in a familiar position on the female 's belly , or even which belly it was . |