Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the window ledge in the living room I saw men dressed in dark clothes and wearing dark hats knocking on all the doors in the street . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , there is little pipe — so you would need quite a standardisation between nut sizes large selection of open-ended spanners to cope with all the nuts you might find . |
| 3 | If that continues during the 1990s , inflation averages 5% , and homes account for half the value of all bequests , Mintel thinks property transfers between generations will rise from perhaps £16 billion in 1990–91 to £25 billion in 1999–2000 . |
| 4 | No , it is the sale Scots make for all the girls and boys |
| 5 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 6 | At the Yair ford , in mass , they turned to cross , the English guards there prudently withdrawing to a discreet distance , while trumpets sounded in all the enemy encampments . |
| 7 | In its final form the aid package replenished disaster relief funds depleted by both the disturbances in Los Angeles and by recent severe flooding in Chicago . |
| 8 | Sympathizers saw in this the hand of providence , while enemies suspected ‘ dirty tricks ’ . |
| 9 | Our sincere thanks go to all the patients who have volunteered to share their experiences and allowed us to divulge intimate details about them , in the hope of helping others . |
| 10 | Many of the same suggestions for traps appeared in all the books , modified only by terrain . |
| 11 | To calculate the probability of finding a real space-time with some certain property , such as looking the same at every point and in every direction , one adds up the waves associated with all the histories that have that property . |
| 12 | In pursuance of this nonsense , you not only hear those few callers who succeed in getting through , you 're also subjected to a cheery stream-of-consciousness summary of the grievances expressed by all the rest . |
| 13 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 14 | Guildsmen versed in all the Mystery plays from the Creation of the World to Doomsday clamoured to travel with Garvey . |
| 15 | In referral meetings attended by all the staff , an educational psychologist , and an education social worker , decisions on particular cases are taken according to a broad consensus which operated around two major and related considerations . |
| 16 | Martina contented herself with a pot of tea , and held her cup with both hands , as girls are bound to do , the fingers spread for all the warmth . |
| 17 | Very soon , thought Miranda , looking up at him , irises bruised from all the emotion , ‘ oh , Goldie 'll have no problems , I could swear to that . ’ |
| 18 | And as we are unlikely to see any real harmonisation of accounting procedures , fiscal requirements or business practices throughout the Community in the near future , pan-European accounting systems will be increasingly important to the large number of UK companies looking for all the help they can get . |
| 19 | By contrast a municipal corporation was a public governmental authority with administrative duties owed to all the inhabitants of its area . |
| 20 | At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v. |
| 21 | Within ( 2.2 ) significant financial effects arise from both the levels term in the exchange control index and the lagged dynamic term capturing domestic financial competitiveness . |
| 22 | ‘ Although we have no definite links between any of the robberies there are similarities between the property taken and the fact that there were firearms or imitation firearms used in all the incidents , ’ said Detective Inspector John Phoenix of Chester CID . |
| 23 | ‘ There are double and triple checks going on all the time . ’ |
| 24 | The nature of the impairment of the system might be different for every patient , so each patient is unique ; yet all the impairments shown by all the patients are interpreted with reference to a single theory of the language processing system . |
| 25 | I formed a Party , dashed to London at eleven o'clock at night , and for three days lived in all the tempest of Pleasure … |
| 26 | A lengthy article appeared in the Daily Telegraph entitled ‘ Would you like to live in a listed ruin ? ’ ; then pieces appeared in all the rest of the newspapers . |
| 27 | Oh , geniuses inspired in all the arts , who draw from things only such elements of them as are to be shown to the mind ! |
| 28 | Classically one or other of these things happens to all the marbles that start out at the same speed ; either they all get over or they all fall back . |
| 29 | That should be decided in the light of the school 's priorities agreed by all the governors . |
| 30 | The four or five men on the panel would have square eyeballs ploughing through all the tapes but that 's the only real way forward if we are going to be fair in all this . |