Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | All the barracks were demolished , leaving within the defences only the granaries , now enclosed inside their own compound , the headquarters building and the commander 's house . |
2 | ‘ Although we only assemble the clubs here the components are made by expert manufacturers in America , Japan and Taiwan . |
3 | Certainly the galleries where the slate is blasted , which go down 1,500ft in giant steps , have a dramatic quality of their own . |
4 | ‘ Under the Companies Act , we are entitled to take such action if more than 10 per cent of the shareholders back the application . |
5 | Some Italian papers publish lists of those rounded up the previous day together with little maps marking the cities where the companies implicated have their factories . |
6 | While many British evacuees drifted back to the cities once the threat of an invasion had been lifted , refugee children were actively discouraged from returning to the urban life . |
7 | The reds where the home signals , yellow , the distance , and I this the black were points were they not . |
8 | The Hugh Bell School in Middlesbrough opened on 7th January 1895 with 7 scholars as a deaf class in a cold , cramped room near the magistrates ' courts — who were wont to complain frequently about the noise from the alleyway between the classroom and the courts where the children played . |
9 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
10 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
11 | Private ownership of space to be limited to the times when the persons concerned are actually present , each person 's territory being a mobile entity in law . |
12 | As our death-bed scenario illustrated , the family was at its most cohesive at the times when the rites of passage were celebrated . |
13 | Their backs even made it into The Times when the newspaper published names of the finishers . |
14 | The clientele made a perfect captive audience and in the early autumn of Paula 's second year at the store the management decided to bring in models to show the new season 's fashions at the times when the restaurant was most likely to be full of ladies who had accounts with Jenkinsons and cheque books in their capacious handbags . |
15 | Very often in such cases older managers and workers can recall the times when the business was run by the family . |
16 | She was a clever woman with obscure sources of energy who would suddenly start to garden by torchlight late at night , or walk wilfully all the way to Soho to buy vegetables at the times when the pin in her hipbone was especially painful . |
17 | For purposes of prison administration it is essential that the cases where the prisoner is never released should be exceptional and that there should be maintained amongst those serving life sentences a general hope of release and consequent incentive to good behaviour . |
18 | In more than half the cases where the occupations of grandparents are mentioned , this is partly because the father followed a grandfather in his own work . |
19 | The cases where the relation between stress and infinitesimal strain is linear have already been discussed . |
20 | However , the cases where the victim is named tend to be the cases which attract widespread or sustained coverage ( or both ) . |
21 | Of the cases where the outcome was known , seven resulted in acquittals . |
22 | The reluctance of the courts to imply an agreement can be seen in the cases where the plaintiff has accepted a lift with the defendant who is incapable of driving . |
23 | This would explain the cases where the plaintiff accepts a lift with a driver whom he knows is drunk . |
24 | A major responsibility , particularly in the hours following the blast , was to help reduce panic by providing as much information as possible concerning the dead and injured , and those who were missing or left homeless . |
25 | ‘ And the genuine entrepreneur , ’ he smiles , ‘ is the one who will bend all the rules when the question is survival . ’ |
26 | The study of interactions and relationships that constitute the social structure of these various rearing units has begun to provide a description of the rules whereby the structure is maintained from generation to generation . |
27 | She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated . |
28 | ( This also gives the texts of the statutes , but they are often broken up between different titles in rather an inconvenient way , which is one of the reasons why the text in Statutes in Force is preferable . ) |
29 | They should understand what is meant by Language Universals , and the reasons why the development of Transformational Grammar has given so powerful an impetus to the study of language acquisition . |
30 | There could hardly be more fundamental mysteries than the reasons why the Universe came into existence , how life began on planet Earth , and so on . |