Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They can help the experts to focus on the more difficult aspects of their specialities and non experts to be more productive and take more accurate decisions . |
| 3 | Kragan retraced his steps and left the crowds to walk behind the House of Mirrors . |
| 4 | Er , a fourth year of record profits , record er , sales , record margin , with the schools business thirty seven percent ahead of the previous year with our successful maths programme , aided and abetted by er , the business that produces the manipulatives to go with the maths programme . |
| 5 | If the defendant negligently starts a fire and strong winds then cause the flames to spread to the plaintiff 's property , the court will not find that the winds break the chain of causation . |
| 6 | sufficient time must be granted to the shareholders to decide on the offer ; |
| 7 | In this state , the chains are highly entangled , and as sufficient time must be allowed for the chains to diffuse into the three-dimensional order required for crystallite formation , the crystalline perfection of the sample is affected by the thermal history . |
| 8 | ‘ What ? ’ cried the great dragon , his deep brass-gonged voice ringing out and causing several of the gems to tinkle off the jade pagoda . |
| 9 | There is now little left for the creditors to salvage from the airline 's wreckage . |
| 10 | Towards evening the Collector gave the order for everyone who could be spared from the ramparts to assemble in the hall , he wanted to say a few words to the garrison . |
| 11 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 12 | It would be up to the courts to decide on the matter , ’ says her local trading standards officer , Mr Slater . |
| 13 | While there may be a reluctance on the part of the courts to rule on the validity of Acts of Parliament , a related issue which has arisen is whether they may adjudicate upon the question whether something purporting to be an Act of Parliament actually is such . |
| 14 | That does not mean that the law should change with every passing fancy — crimes such as theft , fraud , murder , etc. will never become fashionable — but ‘ social ’ crimes such as publishing indecent or obscene material are dependent on society 's perception of what is or is not indecent or obscene at the time , and the legislation of one period may be inappropriate in another period of time , to the extent that resorting to the courts to deal with the matter may be quite inappropriate and ineffective . |
| 15 | But there was concern that , since ‘ it is by no means uncommon for the parties to a fragile marriage to separate and come together again in quick succession on a number of occasions , this would force the courts to enquire into the precise situation at the time of the rape . ’ |
| 16 | Frankly , dear readers , I was getting bored waiting for the graphs to get to the point of maximum excitement . |
| 17 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
| 18 | Floy remembered what Nuadu Airgetlam had said about the Robemaker taking sacrifice from the ordinary Irish people and putting the sons to work in the Dark Workshops and guessed that the people had simply lost heart . |
| 19 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 20 | Under Tsarist colonialism , it was the privilege of the Russians to belong to the industrial proletariat . |
| 21 | Okay , so , that 's , they 're the reasons to account for the rise in absolute values of er , trade in all commodities , what about erm , why has the er , trade in manufactures er , increased as a proportion of total trade ? |
| 22 | ‘ You have the skills to rise above the narrow confines of a labouring job . ’ |
| 23 | Wordsworth sees with some prescience that political beliefs will be the calls to battle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries — you might say ! |
| 24 | A vole mandible is illustrated here showing the incisor , three molars and the body of the mandible all in position , but immersion in water caused the teeth to separate from the mandible and the bone of the mandible itself to break up into minute fragments . |
| 25 | Following his comments Shoob on Oct. 5 acceded to requests by the authorities to withdraw from the case and admitted that he had reached " certain preliminary conclusions " concerning the evidence . |
| 26 | It is about all manner of motoring matters such as improvements in vehicle safety and construction , raising of driving standards and an attempt to get the authorities to look at the whole business of motoring in a different way for the good of all . |
| 27 | There is little doubt that his outspoken views had some effect on the students , and he was a convenient ‘ scapegoat ’ for the authorities to blame for the disturbances . |
| 28 | Or , as Niall Fitzduff put it , the community ‘ is not to be destroyed at the whim of mining company ’ while nothing could ‘ compensate us or the generations to come for the loss of our community ’ . |
| 29 | But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ? |
| 30 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |