Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 2 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 3 | For people with trouble controlling their hand movements , special key guards allow them to press only the key they want . |
| 4 | The sharp rocks , or moraine , which were stuck in the glaciers caused them to scrape out the valleys much deeper . |
| 5 | Although the election of Avitus is the last Auvergnat election covered by Gregory , two saints ' Lives allow us to take up the story again a century later . |
| 6 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |
| 7 | These innovative window decorations allow you to recreate authentically the beauty of stained glass in your home , at a fraction of the cost of the real thing . |
| 8 | The problem , simply stated , is that for any rational expectations model one can always specify a non-rational expectations model which has exactly the same implications for a given set of data , even though it may have other implications which are quite different . |
| 9 | That comforting ‘ usual ’ audience are the connoisseurs of all things cool who make up the heaving Dingwall 's audience on any Sunday afternoon . |
| 10 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |
| 11 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |
| 12 | The scheme will be targeted at 25–35 year-old chemical engineers or chemists to encourage them to take up the available lecturing academic posts and to carry out teaching and research on environmental issues . |
| 13 | But neighbours say it brightens up the area and they want it to stay . |
| 14 | Kent County Council in the UK was the first beta test site for the new Unix versions and says that the new products enable it to reduce significantly the unit costs of functions such as paying invoices and processing journals . |
| 15 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 16 | A trick I like to play when using a record or tape is to switch off the music two or three times to get everyone predicting when the end will come . |
| 17 | That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed . |
| 18 | The police say they have n't the time or resources to worry about hashish . |
| 19 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 20 | So he hired a lorry , bribed the demolition men to let him cart away the finest doorcases , moulded corner cupboards , cornices and chimney pieces and stored them in a London County Council Historic Buildings warehouse at his own expense . |
| 21 | The ideas were always Durance 's , he always initiated the paintings and when his hands permitted he carried out the work , but as he had become increasingly crippled the execution had been left more and more to his protégée . |
| 22 | Naturally I talked over every aspect of it with Elizabeth and the family ; and in the end I concluded that if- and only if-convincing evidence was brought to me that a substantial majority in both Houses wished me to take on the job I would do so . |
| 23 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 24 | Loud Clachaig Inn climber revellers woke me clambering up the stairs . |
| 25 | We are writing to all existing claimants to let them know how the change will affect them . |
| 26 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 27 | So how many times have you canooed down the A 438 ? |
| 28 | Another consideration is that preserving such partial interpretations allows us to see where the recognition process went wrong , either in failing to pursue the correct interpretation , or in abandoning the correct one for some other interpretation . |
| 29 | When the wasps returned they landed where the entrances ‘ should ’ have been , in the centre of the circle of pine cones . |
| 30 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |