Example sentences of "[noun pl] [det] " in BNC.

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1 If live theatre turns you on you can choose from several plays or musicals each night .
2 It was her dimples that first attracted Vic to Marjorie twenty-five years ago , when she worked in the typing pool at Vanguard .
3 Owner Stewart Tarratt said : ‘ There were several burglaries that night and I think the thief just stopped here for a meal break . ’
4 He enclosed a paper of questions to be put to them if any such were located and clearly this request was responsible for a report Sir Daniel had compiled on his own account about the Coniston mines that same year .
5 No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that
6 The computer continues to solve the equations , providing a complete series of new values each time an individual value is changed .
7 The levels of relocation allowances paid will change over time with employers usually reviewing their cash values each year .
8 on a cursory inspection and by the methods in current use , to consist of a number of interdependent sub-systems — the economy , the status system , the polity , the kinship systems and the institutions which have in their special custody the cultivation of cultural values Each of these sub-systems itself comprises a network of organisations which are connected , with varying degrees of affirmation , through a common authority , overlapping personnel , personal relationships , contracts , perceived identities of interest , a sense of affinity within a transcendent whole and a territorial location possessing a symbolic value .
9 The prime difference is that Mitroff and Emshoff pursue the underlying values each stakeholder group holds with respect to specific strategies .
10 Are you going to concentrate on collections of herbs each with a theme ?
11 Many filter systems will quickly clear suspended matter in the water ( which will appear clean but may not be ) , and of course , the addition of charcoal or zeolite will remove some of the nasties that build-up .
12 Even the unsympathetic could not but be impressed , and when Charlotte Poole , Tom 's cousin , met Coleridge at Marshmills that month , she mingled her disapproval with admiration , setting him down in her journal as ‘ a young man of brilliant understanding , great eloquence , desperate fortune , democratick principles , and entirely led away by the feelings of the moment ’ .
13 At the start of NEP many of these papers collapsed for the same reasons that affected others .
14 There are obviously personal and spiritual reasons that motivated such a call .
15 Increasingly firms from developing countries are extending abroad , for many of the same reasons that earlier prompted the moves of developed country multinationals .
16 Italy is of course the country where anything is possible , but legitimate concern has been expressed at the way in which the young Florentine judge has seen fit to take upon herself a role which properly belongs to the competent institutional authorities that of evaluating the appropriateness and the implementation of a particular restoration project .
17 Despite explicit statements in the earliest authorities that Molla Shams al-Din Muhammad b .
18 Police duties in Easton are similar to those in non-divided societies , and the manner in which these tasks are viewed and accomplished parallels that elsewhere .
19 switches that on to sort out her .
20 So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week .
21 Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales .
22 Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales .
23 When I left the Falkland Islands there were signs that summer there was drawing to a close .
24 Despite the relatively narrow curriculum concern of ESG teachers , there are signs that some LEAs ( Walsall , 1981 ; Tameside , 1981 ; Birmingham , 1986 ; and possibly Nottinghamshire , 1986 ) are using this strategy to establish broader , holistic curriculum aims .
25 In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals .
26 It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist …
27 The morning rehearsals each day were a Tiller rule not demanded by the management and so were not paid for .
28 A portal gaped : leering vermilion plasteel lips with bared ebon teeth each inscribed with golden texts .
29 In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed .
30 A SMUGGLING racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year , say undercover investigators .
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