Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tops cost around £75 , and the hats around £17 from The Duffer Of St George , 27 D'Arblay St , London W1 ; Geese , Royal Exchange , Manchester ; Hip , 14 Thornton 's Arcade , Leeds ; Swing , 60 Grass Market , Edinburgh ; Square , 3–4 The Corridor , High St , Bath |
| 2 | The police claimed that they had been forced to act to disperse the crowds when troublemakers attacked police stations , but protesters disputed this account and described the police action as a massacre . |
| 3 | Britain is not in debt to the IMF , so the advice is entirely optional , but there are unpleasant echoes of the mid-1970s when Denis Healey had to borrow from the IMF to support the pound and was publicly forced to accept its advice to control the money supply and raise interest rates . |
| 4 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 5 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 6 | In similar fashion the bottom fell out of the illustrious 1817 sovereign market in the mid-1970s when investors realised that they were paying 50 per cent over the melt price for a coin minted in millions . |
| 7 | In the lineouts however Lansdowne 's Paul O'Connor and John Hanlon reigned supreme in the absence of Ballymena stalwart Davy Tweed . |
| 8 | I 'm going to go to the hairdressers so Jim 's going to look after you . |
| 9 | The civitates where bishops had their palaces and churches were inherited from Roman times . |
| 10 | The driving impulse was the fear of the development of a " dangerous class " in the cities where children were growing up ill disciplined and ill exampled by their parents . |
| 11 | If they were given the duty to inform the courts when debts were paid , they would not be deterred from fulfilling it ( as many debtors would ) by ignorance or even fear of the courts . |
| 12 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 13 | Davide saw how they fastened their hopes on his powers of persuasion in the courts where identity and responsibility are conferred . |
| 14 | An action could force their ill-fated relationship back into the courts just weeks after Mandy received a £500,000 marriage settlement . |
| 15 | You are in rubber , which the Germans desperately lack . |
| 16 | After Juergen Klinsmann had fired the Germans ahead Riedle scored twice in five minutes midway through the first half and put Germany 4–1 clear with his third in the 59th minute . |
| 17 | Consideration will be given to seasonal dwellings ( such as the shielings where members of rural communities lived while tending their animals in the upland summer grazing ) and to the temporary nature of much Scottish housing in the past . |
| 18 | The birds just sort of bob their heads like they 're wind up toys . |
| 19 | ‘ I forgot to put it out for the birds yesterday morning . ’ |
| 20 | well you ca n't give the birds much bread today , because I have n't got a white loaf , I 'm not going to give 'em this expensive whole meal bread |
| 21 | So busy yourself today and remember , making a really special effort today could mean even more success with the tape measure and the scales tomorrow morning . |
| 22 | They turned off into the woods where th'fence ends . |
| 23 | To the south , a large estate has closed off a public right of way because of vandalism in the woods where pheasant are bred for shooting . |
| 24 | And they met in the woods where Robert was murdered . |
| 25 | Andrew Carnegie 's Peace Palace , filled with the gifts of the nations , is open for tours , and the woods where Hitler launched his V2s against London are there to be walked . |
| 26 | Mrs Hardy , of Tower Hill , Chipperfield , was found crawling through undergrowth in the woods yesterday morning by two women who were out for a walk . |
| 27 | Vienna 's trump cards include concerts in the palaces where Mozart made music . |
| 28 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 29 | The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna . |
| 30 | There was a muted concession made regarding the requirements of the plaintiff 's customers and the times when deliveries were made to them. ) ( 2 ) The information about the prices was not clearly severable from the rest of the sales information . |