Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the FSA , investment business means the business of engaging in one or more of the activities specified in the Act in relation to the investments specified in the Act , as long as these activities are not excluded . |
| 2 | Many of the latter are the forms mentioned in the first paragraph of this section as running parallel to the coast . |
| 3 | THE essays included in the collection Women , Art and Power were written over a twenty-year period . |
| 4 | The pros play in the par-three for fun , to give something back to their public in return for the millions of dollars they earn from golf . |
| 5 | These individuals , known as locals , are vital for the liquidity of the markets in the contracts traded in the pits . |
| 6 | The coal companies that won the contracts to operate in the Dukeries were experienced in the organization of large workforces which operated in difficult conditions and were potentially prone to industrial unrest . |
| 7 | Overseas , the Kuwait operation has been successful in managing the contracts won in the early part of last year . |
| 8 | The machine tools were housed to one end , the aeroplane assembled at the other , whilst the draftsmen lived in the loft . |
| 9 | Between 1541 and 1570 the labourers recorded in the Myddle parish register formed only 7·1 per cent of adult males , but during the next thirty years the proportion rose to 23·4 per cent . |
| 10 | You stand on St Saviour 's Point to see him going out between the forts , the seabirds flocking after his boat , the ropes screaming in the sheaves as the sails are hoisted . |
| 11 | By the time the two week World Film Festival winds down at the beginning of September most of the cinephiles standing in the long queues at the box office have no idea what they 're waiting for ; they 'll watch anything that moves . |
| 12 | Keen golfer Noel , the NIBA singles champion , takes on Herbert Park 's Noel O'Hara in the opening semi-final and victory means that the clubs stay in the boot of his car . |
| 13 | ‘ None of the clubs left in the competition will relish the prospect of coming to Ibrox , where they will face an awesome atmosphere with 45,000 fans breathing down their necks — even Milan wo n't fancy that . |
| 14 | Although the programmes devised in the late 1980s were not dissimilar to earlier statements , there were some variations in emphasis . |
| 15 | After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place |
| 16 | In line with the programmes produced in the late 1970s , a brief contextual statement would be followed by a closer definition of the objectives to be pursued in the economic , social , environmental and housing areas , and the role to be played by various statutory authorities and the voluntary sector ( Birmingham City Council , 1987b ; Newcastle City Council , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Most of the institutions involved in the training of future church musicians seem to be largely unaware of the changing character of worship today . |
| 18 | ‘ The alchemists believed in the principle ‘ as above so below ’ , that everything is linked . |
| 19 | The summit was reached at 7pm four days later , the climbers descending in the dark . |
| 20 | Hating to , Chesarynth still jacked out , leaving the meanings aglimmer in the prison of the magic box . |
| 21 | If the spot price is not expected to change over time , then in contracts with a positive basis the futures price in the contracts with nearby delivery dates will be lower than the futures price in the contracts with distant delivery dates ( a situation known as normal contango ) . |
| 22 | If the spot price is not expected to change over time , then in contracts with a positive basis the futures price in the contracts with nearby delivery dates will be lower than the futures price in the contracts with distant delivery dates ( a situation known as normal contango ) . |
| 23 | They can hardly avoid suggesting death and life ; in that case his song says there can be no defeat — even if the wanderers die in the dark wood , the real Old Forest , they will in death break through to sunlight and out of a hampering shade . |
| 24 | But the Belfast and Edinburgh situations are abnormal and irregular only if it is assumed that the patterns revealed in the New York City study are the normal and regular ones , and that Labov 's findings on the structure of that speech community are universally applicable . |
| 25 | Instead of trying to explain the extinction and replacement of species in terms of observable causes , Lyell 's opponents looked to the patterns revealed in the fossil record to explain the history of life on earth . |
| 26 | Look carefully to see how the patterns change in the different streets and squares . |
| 27 | In general , the patterns established in the First Temple Period were maintained . |
| 28 | In this way the patterns set in the boom left their imprint firmly on the years of mass unemployment which followed . |
| 29 | I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower . |
| 30 | provide clear documented evidence of the competences achieved in the placement ; |