Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The concentration of inhumation cemeteries close to the defences also suggests contraction , though several presumably earlier cremation urns from the same areas might counsel caution .
2 The forms also ask workers and carers to check whether a child knows how to cross the road safely or can make an emergency phone call .
3 The whistles always woke Mazie .
4 The accounts also provide details of the gains so far on executive share options in the merged company .
5 Under this system , the organization is recognizing the issue of an order as a commitment to incur the expenditure and the accounts continuously record commitments .
6 The programmes also contain location footage of varying lengths .
7 Introductory handling sessions followed by work in the galleries generally allow pupils to get far more benefit from a museum visit than use of the exhibition galleries alone , where objects may be displayed behind glass .
8 It is widely believed that the mines also produced gold which was used in the crowns of Scotland 's kings .
9 The Reds never took SS prisoners . ’
10 If there are statements by the Minister or other promoter of the Bill , these may throw as much light on the ‘ mischief ’ which the Bill seeks to remedy as do the white papers , reports of official committees and Law Commission reports to which the courts already have regard for that purpose .
11 I fear that the courts sorely missed assistance from academic lawyers specialising in this branch of the law ; but the law faculties in our universities were only beginning to be established towards the end of the 19th century .
12 Having learned their lesson at Liège , the Germans immediately used howitzers and took the city in two days .
13 In other words , the vast majority of the Germans never reached Austria at all .
14 Staff estimated that this very stiff target was attained relatively rarely , so that , at most , one in five of the prisoners actually received pay on any one day .
15 The illustrations throughout achieve density without confusion , fecundity without claustrophobia .
16 And he will be boosted by the Lions forward coach Dick Best 's assessment that ‘ a good player can perform anywhere ’ .
17 And , with Scott Hastings returning to Scotland next week after his horrendous cheekbone fracture , the Lions desperately need Will Carling to recover from his thigh strain to partner Guscott in the Test .
18 The proposals also allow government departments to make " reasonable charges " for providing information , including staff time and overheads .
19 Again the Serbs were disappointed , for in 1812 at the Treaty of Bucharest the Russians again made peace with the Turks and agreed that Serbia should remain within the Ottoman empire .
20 The Russians bitterly opposed West German rearmament , pointing out that this broke the 1945 Potsdam agreement .
21 In a letter of ‘ unanimous support ’ published in The Times today board members say he is the best person to lead the corporation .
22 For example , if mutations reduce adult survival 16 times more than they reduce juvenile survival ( that is , v= 16 ) , a net mutation rate reduces juvenile and adult survival from their optimal values ( 0.945 , 0.505 ) to ( 0.866 , 0.155 ) ; if the mutations only affected adult survival , a mutation rate U 0.067 would reduce adult survival to zero .
23 Law Society rules provide for the way client money held by a solicitor should be accounted for , and the rules currently require solicitors to submit an annual accountant 's report .
24 The products presently undergoing re-development for Sun are Apscore 's 4GL and expert system-based solutions — financial , loans and insurance .
25 The reason for their non-availability will not surprise anyone who has dealings with an insurance company — the policies apparently attract people who make claims .
26 In Japan the herons also use berries , twigs , leaves and a range of insects including flies , cicadas and grasshoppers : in addition the Japanese green heron not only uses these naturally occurring baits , but also makes lures by breaking twigs into pieces of an appropriate size .
27 The researchers also saw changes in particle distribution and that the changes in auroral formation are different at the centre .
28 The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder .
29 The authorities also drafted regulations to circumscribe public activity in Tiananmen Square itself , which included the prohibition of any memorial activity and of " joking and playing , sitting and lying down on the ground " .
30 In practice , however , failures are often forestalled by governments that fear systemic contagion from the collapse of credit institutions ; and the authorities only allow mergers between big firms where they are convinced that competition will not suffer .
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