Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun pl] [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am interested to note that they have not unscrewed the fingerplates from his doors . |
| 2 | Unlike the Cubists , the Futurists had never limited the colours on their palettes and were concerned with a wide range of subject-matter , so that they may have contributed to the general ‘ loosening-up ’ process that Cubism was undergoing . |
| 3 | We were given the details of our appointments individually . |
| 4 | Jamie Reid has lifted the scales from my eyes . |
| 5 | Such an inequality has been modified and refined in the decades since emancipation , but blacks have never quite shed the remnants of their shackles and have stayed socially unequal . |
| 6 | In the period before 1914 his vitriolic polemics against supposed threats to ‘ orthodoxy ’ often distorted the views of his victims . |
| 7 | He had almost forgotten the faces of his parents . |
| 8 | The war has torn the scales from our eyes , and forced us to see things as they really are , and by the light of this clearer vision we have come to regard many conditions as intolerable which before had only seemed inevitable … |
| 9 | But they did , with a fervour that would have amazed the feminists of their grandmothers ' generation . |
| 10 | Minneapolis-based Network Systems Corp cut the price on its 6600 single-board router products by as much as 38% for some models : prices will now range from $5,000 to $17,000 , and the cuts are in response to a price cut by a competing company and due to ‘ tremendous improvements in manufacturing efficiency ; ’ 3Com Corp has recently slashed the prices for its routers . |
| 11 | Phillip King has attracted surprisingly modest attention in the ten years since his retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1981 but , as Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art until 1990 , he has shaped the styles of his students and of artists such as Richard Deacon , who had left the college before his arrival . |
| 12 | As you become more familiar with the subject , after repeated reviews , data can be found and appreciated if you have made the pages of your textbooks as individual and readily recognisable as the pages of your notes . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals . |
| 14 | The doubters had failed to take into account Alcock 's remarkable visual acuity , but photographs taken at professional observatories , and by space probes , have verified the details of his observations . |
| 15 | The woman had bought the ponies for her grandchildren ( who could n't even ride ) . |
| 16 | The grouper slaps closed the covers of its gills to create a booming sound . |
| 17 | After the besieged had licked the corners of their mouths and sucked their fingers clean one by one , the cold ocean of hunger closed over their heads again with scarcely a ripple to be seen . |
| 18 | Edward followed ; she heard him skid on the floor , in whose black and shining depths were reflected the chandeliers above their heads . |
| 19 | Partners in the EuroEDI and Concorde consortia — set up with the purpose of interconnecting disparate Electronic Data Interchange systems — have successfully demonstrated the results of their projects . |
| 20 | It was dark and some of the merchants had lit the lantern-horns outside their doors , whilst Athelstan glimpsed the beacon light shining red and full in the steeple of St Mary Le Bow . |
| 21 | I am sure that that proposal would have affected the lives of my constituents . |
| 22 | The military classes , the lords and the gentry , were directly involved in the wars as participants , but as landowners they also had an indirect concern , because trading changes resulting from war affected the profits of their estates . |
| 23 | Our homes and our relaxations have become the building-blocks of our lives . |
| 24 | As punishment for having harboured the killers of his sons , Richard had the village crops destroyed and the livestock slaughtered . |
| 25 | Although Blanche has brought the consequences of her actions on herself she suffers in a way that no one should have to suffer . |
| 26 | What we did was he draws them out every morning cos I collared him stuck the towels over his shoulders and said just put us them over there . |
| 27 | Some departmental heads had found the discussions within their departments to be very useful and two new heads of departments had found the appraisal to be very worthwhile in terms of taking stock of their situation — as something they had to do as of necessity . |
| 28 | Herod , who had no drop of Israelitish blood in his veins and was stung by the consciousness of his base origins , burnt the registers of their families … |
| 29 | I know of the proposal to which my hon. Friend refers and I know that he has vigorously represented the concerns of his constituents . |
| 30 | He has hit the headlines through his efforts to bring sick Eastern European children to Britain for key operations . |