Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Havis himself did most of the cockpit shots , and these are skilfully intercut into air-to-air shots of Concorde , including a beautiful head-on one ( used several times ) of the Great White Dart skimming the cloud-tops leaving a vortex of white in its high-speed wake . |
2 | All the activities have a number : do them in that order . |
3 | Both offices are in areas where Keith Pattinson is already strongly represented and the openings mark a consolidation of the company 's presence in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland . |
4 | Arm-in-arm with the day-conductress , she would walk the length of the train , watching the ice being tapped off the water inlets and the track-hoppers getting a warning from the new MCK engine elbowing its way backwards . |
5 | The dreamings follow a set path as they alter the topography , leaving their potency , or ‘ Guruwari ’ , at specific points en route , before disappearing back to the non-material world at the point where they came in . |
6 | The Pakistanis have a culture . |
7 | But the spit at Pellestrina , which is only a few feet high , is vulnerable to being breached , the experts believe a 12km long perched beach could provide the answer . |
8 | The nature of the attitudes suggests a willingness on the part of many Solihull secondary teachers to undertake institutional self-reviews and to consider self-generated institutional improvements . |
9 | And the malais on duty , in white helmets , white gloves , and white gaiters , they also hung around the back of the crowds to sneak a look , instead of doing a beat of the whole square . |
10 | Its cause is not known ( personal communication , Boehringer Mannheim UK ( Diagnostics and Biomedicals ) , 1992 ) , though the strips use a glucose oxidase reaction different from the hexokinase reaction of laboratory machines . |
11 | The solicitors had a conflict of interests , and should have arranged for him to receive independent legal advice . |
12 | Authorities are in agreement that the hylobatids represent a branch sprouting early off the stem leading from the Old World monkeys towards the great apes . |
13 | The accounts showed a loss of $498m with loan loss provisions of $600m . |
14 | In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin . |
15 | The institutions offer a service in that they train graduates whom many large employers and some small ones recruit , often on the basis of a degree — content , quality and grade . |
16 | HARD WORK AND TIGHT WRITING MAKE SAUVY 'S SLIMEBALLS A WINNER , BUT BONINGTON 'S THE CLIMBERS TAKES A PANNING |
17 | As part of the new financing arrangements , the first plaintiffs and some of the shareholders signed a document releasing all claims . |
18 | The question of economic benefits of science points to a concern with the character of the economy at the time and to the importance of considering the demise of the attempts to implement a science curriculum ‘ as practice ’ and the success of the science curriculum ‘ as fact ’ in the context of changes in Victorian capitalism . [ … ] |
19 | This confusion is very apparent in most of the attempts to formulate a statement of higher education aims and policies , from the Robbins Report ( 1963 ) to the 1985 Green Paper ( DES 1985 ) . |
20 | Other distinctions that were drawn — between democracy and absolutism , between monarchy and republic , between Western political institutions and ‘ Oriental despotism ’ — expressed current political interests and ideological commitments ; and indeed all the attempts to construct a typology of political systems are marked to some degree by an intermingling of scientific analysis and the value judgements which arise from real political struggles . |
21 | The case was not concerned with a standard form contract but with a disclaimer on a surveyor 's report which purported to prevent the surveyors incurring a duty of care in tort . |
22 | They 're quite expensive at the outset because what we 've got to do is pay the lecturers to put a lot of work in on those lectures — it 's not a simple thing writing this lecture for a thirteen year old and we also pay the school teachers for coming along and helping the lecturers . |
23 | To quote the Arnolfini poster blurb : ‘ Exploring the multiple possibilities of photographic ‘ images ’ , the artists use a kaleidoscope of new visual technologies to spectacular effect … the audience is invited to literally enter and participate in the works on show ’ . |
24 | The scale of this process and its considerable effect on the cities raises a number of pertinent issues . |
25 | But the humanities comprise a number of disciplines and subjects , of which English is only one ; the Leavisite attempt to turn it into the Queen of the Sciences never looked like succeeding . |
26 | At intervals the defenders would come from one part or another of the ramparts to collect a supply of them ; but for the moment the firing was slack . |
27 | It trembled uncomprehendingly over Harry Dunstaple running towards the ramparts waving a sabre and shouting orders , with the bulging pockets of his Tweedside lounging jacket swinging about his knees over Ford , carefully laying a train back to the wall of the churchyard from one of the fougasses that had been dug … over the Sikhs staggering here and there with loads of small stones to shovel into another fougasse not yet completed … over the green Fleury having a rest in the shade of a tamarind beside the Church wall … and finally over the pariah dog , looking towards Fleury with admiration but from a respectful distance ( for Fleury continued to reject its advances ) . |
28 | They play Newry this Saturday at the Showgrounds and it 's an excellent opportunity for the Reds to move a step nearer their target of a quarter-final place . |
29 | In fact , there is no necessity for the courts to abandon a concern with substantive outcomes entirely , since , despite the above strictures , a judicial evaluation of the likely profit consequences of a particular course of action would not be impossible , within fairly broad limits . |
30 | The point to make here is that if it is good enough for the courts to judge a publication as a whole then it would be perverse of a librarian to do otherwise in book selection . |