Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , there may be statements from engineers or surveyors suggesting that the building is physically unsound . |
| 2 | During this time , the marriage could be saved or the custody of the children resolved before the courts agreed that the marriage was irretrievably broken down . |
| 3 | Everyone in our sample cases agreed that the law is the law and must be enforced ; they disagree only about what the law in fact was . |
| 4 | Far from being able to produce enough plutonium to make atomic weapons , however , IAEA experts agreed that the plant was " extremely primitive " and remained a long way from completion . |
| 5 | ‘ Not your day , is it , Duvall ? ’ said Jimmy , and Duvall glared hard at him again with a look that spoke again of reckonings to come after the nightmare was over . |
| 6 | I lose the damn thing and crash blindly against him , but he skips backwards , and as the mist clears I see his eyes blazing and his teeth bared and the gun is comfortable in his hand and pointing at my chest . |
| 7 | I was less impressed by a news story in the Sunday Times announcing that the Pope is cracking down on sinners for Easter week : ‘ The Pope has ordered priests in the confessional box to clamp down on sin as churches prepare for the traditional Easter rush of sinners seeking forgiveness this week , ’ it announced knowingly . |
| 8 | Forward scouts reported that the enemy were massing at two points ahead , at their large camp below the castle hill and also nearer the town , but that the Yair ford itself was not guarded . |
| 9 | When the scouts reported that the caravan was approaching the city , Burun rode out with Jehan to meet them . |
| 10 | All the candidates agreed that the issue was an extremely complex one and that ultimately , within limits , policy had to be based on a woman 's right to choose . |
| 11 | Remaining discrepancies are termed isostatic anomalies , but why should such anomalies exist when the lithosphere is apparently free to attain isostatic equilibrium with respect to the asthenosphere ? |
| 12 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 13 | Business investment is an area that bears watching in the coming months to see if the recovery is sustainable . ’ |
| 14 | Because the movies were the first real mass entertainment the showmen realized that the sky was the limit and that there was no possible reason for timidity and restraint . |
| 15 | The acquirer will rely on the warranties to establish whether the business is in proper compliance with those agreements at completion . |
| 16 | A simple series of steps to establish if the situation is one with built in conflict is as follows : |
| 17 | Liverpool showed enough in Moscow before losing their heads to indicate that the task is not beyond them . |
| 18 | The authors suggest that the LIT is a test which is particularly suitable for use with severely and moderately mentally handicapped children . |
| 19 | Of these omissions , one quarter were inflected forms , one quarter were proper nouns , one sixth were hyphenated forms , one twelfth were misspellings and one quarter were not yet resolved , but were likely to be new words occurring since the dictionary was published . |
| 20 | In the case where there are no computers installed and the user is coming at the problem with no previous experience there is really only one answer . |
| 21 | Most books say that the Crab is too faint to be seen with binoculars . |
| 22 | In the 1957 parliamentary elections , Chamoun 's supporters claimed that the opposition were in reality Nasser 's candidates ; political constituencies were gerrymandered to ensure that Saeb Salam , the most prominent Sunni leader in Beirut , and Kamal Jumblatt , the Druze leader in the Chouf , were defeated . |
| 23 | Other indicators confirm that the economy is stirring . |
| 24 | Now to my mind that is not a question of being a snooper , a nark or even being a policeman , er it is er er indeed if we look at section fifteen of the local government finance act of nineteen eighty two er it it 's quite interesting to see the the words used because the auditor is under a duty , amongst other things , to see that the accounts are prepared in accordance with regulations er made under the act er to see that proper practices that have been followed and to see that the body of accounts that have been audited have made proper arrangements f for securing economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 25 | There was already a boat at Douglas built in 1824 by Mr Ogden , jun , of Sunderland from funds supplied before the Institution was formed . |
| 26 | Emergency teams were working round the clock to make the homes secure but the work was not finished until a week after the keys went missing . |
| 27 | The failure of both Poles and Jews to understand that the camp is also a symbol of martyrdom for the other group has led to many controversies , most recently over the convent of Carmelite nuns which borders the camp . |
| 28 | It seems that financial prudence would have led third parties to ensure that the manager was acting on behalf of the Council , whose credibility and creditworthiness rested upon its character as an international organisation of member States . |
| 29 | When providing for examination the court can also , with consent , require a responsible person ( see above ) to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the child is examined in compliance with the order ( para 3(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 30 | Because some forming processes lead to materials with surface properties different from the bulk , it is necessary with a surface-based technique like this to take steps to ensure that the result is the desired one ; that is , of the bulk or of the surface . |