Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster .
2 There is a very basic hostel here , for serious , long-range walkers , and in summer you can hire horses or ponies to ride about on the surrounding , pine-covered hillsides .
3 He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time .
4 The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them .
5 Trees might be planted or earthworks thrown up to the north of a house to disperse harmful ch'i emanating from that quarter .
6 The ‘ purlieus ’ , or areas put out of the forest by the perambulations , were a special bone of contention .
7 The only other items you need to record are debits or credits made directly by the bank to your account .
8 Do Protestants or Catholics achieve more in the educational system , for example ; or are Catholics more likely to end up in prison than Protestants ?
9 If you are booking a late offer holiday any information or conditions set out in the hate offer documents are also part of your contract and if in doubt you should check with your Travel Agent .
10 They can put in ramps instead of stairs , widen doorways , fix rails in bathrooms , lower working surfaces in kitchens , extend tap handles , place electric points within reach , etc. all these things can make life much easier and increase the independence of a disabled person , though clearly it would be simpler in many cases to provide bungalows or flats designed especially for the disabled , in particular those confined to wheelchairs .
11 Policemen marshall grumbling queues whenever a load of bread or chickens jolts in from the country .
12 The paradigm underlying this family of methods is that patterns or clusters appear nonrandomly in the training set , for some unknown underlying reason .
13 Will any amount of ‘ free ’ pencils , clipboards or folders make up for the likely storm of protest that inevitably follows these type of links ?
14 Do n't expect meetings , discussions or journeys to go smoothly between the 12th and 16th .
15 Companies , other organisations What other companies or partnerships operate already in the country , that might be a suitable target for a takeover , merger , joint venture , licensing deal etc ?
16 Even today surgeons turn over a large number of patients for hymen replacements or repairs carried out in the strictest confidence and secrecy .
17 He was just telling the driver of the light engine that he would be away in a minute , when from Bradley Fold station box came the 4-5-5 signal ( train or vehicles running away on the right line ) .
18 One or sometimes two newsreaders or reporters present straight to the camera , and these " talking heads " often have some form of visual " headline " behind them .
19 The French investors are starved of the kind of new issues common to the British market -big , well-publicised privatisations or pseudo-privatisations aimed more at the general punter than the institutional investor .
20 Normally , individual officers or employees singled out by the criticism will additionally have an action : in Lewis v Daily Telegraph , for example , both the company and its managing director were plaintiffs .
21 The old , traditional method of exchange of contracts for sale by the buyer 's solicitors or representatives calling personally on the seller 's is very rarely used .
22 How are the coins and notes set out in the till drawer ?
23 A pheasant squawked and birds burst out of the trees .
24 The sun blazed down on the ancient circle of stones , bees buzzed diligently as they searched for late pollen , and birds sang cheerfully in the nearby trees .
25 With few exceptions the cottages and houses opened directly onto the street with no front gardens .
26 I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings .
27 The scents of its rare grasses and reeds drift gently on the wind bringing calm and tranquillity to its banks .
28 The emotional problems contained in ‘ customs , ceremonies and dogmas left behind by the original relation to the father may have made it possible for later generations to take over their heritage of emotion ’ .
29 Wills make it clear that fathers and sons worked together in the same little workshop , and perhaps the women and girls helped occasionally .
30 ‘ Absolutely , ’ said Jean , whose lips and fingers tingled slightly at the opportunity to say as much .
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