Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 2 | The monkey won after the experts buried themselves in their portfolios while the chimp , called Ola , threw darts at names of companies listed on the Stockholm exchange . |
| 3 | Why not take it down to the firm 's office and let the experts see it for themselves ? |
| 4 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 5 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 6 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 7 | Maxim did his best to shrug inside the ropes wrapping him to the chair . |
| 8 | And as if Ontario was n't pretty enough of a picture , there are the galleries showing everything from the avant-garde to Old Masters . |
| 9 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 10 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 11 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 12 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 13 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 14 | And The Shamen have plenty of theories . |
| 15 | The royal ritual was closely associated with the history of Osiris , the divine prototype on whom the pharaohs modelled themselves by re-enacting his traditional deeds . |
| 16 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |
| 17 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 18 | Why in such a case should the courts blind themselves to a clear indication of what Parliament intended in using those words ? |
| 19 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 20 | It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role . |
| 21 | This is a statement of law as it should be , rather than as it is , but there is nothing to stop the courts developing it in this direction . |
| 22 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 23 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 24 | The courts treat it as a question of fact and take an ad hoc approach . |
| 25 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 26 | Aelian reports that ‘ the Brahmins honour them above all other birds . |
| 27 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 28 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 29 | Towards the end , Horthy tried to extricate the country from the impending shambles , but the Germans occupied it in March 1944 and , in any case , the Allies were no longer sympathetic . |
| 30 | The Germans evacuated him to Athens then to Salonika . |