Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist . |
| 2 | He moved forward to close the gap again with the tunic back in front of him and his lips were dented white where the teeth had bitten at them . |
| 3 | Where the Reports had dealt with satellite towns , the Committee was ‘ attracted by the possibilities of future usefulness in these forms of development ’ . |
| 4 | The radical attack on señorios came from Aragon and Valencia where the confusion between rent payment and feudal dues was most marked and where the lords had transferred to their Christian subjects the obligations that had once rested on the moriscos . |
| 5 | The text has also been brought up to date where the rules have changed in recent years — for example , in relation to independent taxation . |
| 6 | Where the birds have poohed on me window flying past . |
| 7 | Although speaking of the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific , where the Raiders had landed on Makin Island in August 1942 leaving nine men behind to an undeserved fate , the General 's stricture could apply to several amphibious operations . |
| 8 | She saw the long sheds , and the wooden posts , shining and smooth where the cows had rubbed against them over the years . |
| 9 | Unlike in the Reich , where the Nazis had sealed off the German people and the NSDAP membership from foreign scrutiny , and where investigative journalism , hostile comment and moral concern were all about to disappear into the camps , leaving the party accountable to no-one , Danzig was never able fully to apply these principles simply because the city remained a ward of the League of Nations . |
| 10 | All parties to the talks except the Palestinians had agreed by the end of November to attend an eighth round of talks scheduled to open in Washington on Dec. 7 . |
| 11 | The firm application of market methods of control would have yielded a rise in interest rates which would have provided , albeit more slowly , the allocative mechanism rather than the banks having to discriminate against one customer in favour of another . |
| 12 | That the names have survived with little alteration to the present day suggests both a greater stability in continuity than before and a stronger cultural impact than the Romans had had on the local native population . |
| 13 | Although the emigres had originated in territories included in the USSR , they had subsequently become passport holders of other countries or stateless . |
| 14 | Although the Ministers had agreed in principle on June 14 on a deregulation of public purchasing in pursuance of the terms of a 1988 agreement , the fields of energy , transport , communications and drinking water already had been excluded from the deal ( see p. 36493 ) . |
| 15 | Although the terms have continued to be remoulded and made more sophisticated , they basically emanate from that period . |
| 16 | The social security system was , at first , principally intended to support pensioners and , although the numbers have increased during the last forty years , the main increases in those claiming supplementary benefit ( now renamed income support , have been the unemployed and single parents ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 17 | Although the numbers have fallen in the last decade , a high proportion of the world 's children do not even have the opportunity of having protection from some of the major childhood killers , diseases for which vaccines are available — measles for example is a major cause of childhood mortality . |
| 18 | Although the funds had come from Hurley 's budget , the yacht was bought in the name of Andreous Kasikopu , a retired Cypriot marine police captain who looked remarkably like Claude Rains . |
| 19 | In one sense they are the British equivalent of political advertising on American television ‘ but they differ from such advertising in three very important ways : first , PFB broadcasting is free ( although the parties have to bear at least some of the production costs — indeed , all of the production costs if they wish to use private production facilities ) ; second , the number of PEB broadcasts is fixed by agreement between broadcasters and the parties to reflect ( roughly ) the current popular standing of the parties ( in 1987 Labour , the Liberal-SDP Alliance , and the Conservatives got exactly equal time for PEBs while other parties received very much less ) ; third , the broadcasters have insisted , against the politicians ’ wishes , that PEBs be short programmes typically ten minutes long , rather than high-impact adverts of perhaps twenty or thirty seconds ' duration . |
| 20 | Since the beginning of September until this week there has been practically no rain , and the wind has never reached gale force , so the leaves have stayed on the trees far longer than usual , with a constantly changing pattern of glorious colour . |
| 21 | The curtain went up at 2 pm , so the children had to arrive at the theatre at about 1.15 to get ready . |
| 22 | Once the badgers have adapted to their new homes the fences will be removed and they 'll be free to come and go as they please . |
| 23 | It 's like expecting the class system to change once the workers have explained to the ruling class why they do n't like poverty ; or racism to go away once blacks have made clear why they find it oppressive . |
| 24 | Once the seedlings have developed to a reasonable size , they should be transplanted in the aquarium . |
| 25 | That evening , once the children have gone to bed ( little ones at 7.30 p.m. and big ones at 9.30 ) we 're all in the sitting room for the monthly meeting between the women , the workers and the management committee who operate as a support group . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) The loans must be to defray expenditure incurred in acquiring ordinary share capital of a close company complying with s13A(2) as described above , or in lending to such a close company where the money loaned is used wholly and exclusively for the purpose of its business or the business of any of its associated companies provided the latter are also close companies satisfying the conditions of s13A(2). ( 3 ) When interest is paid on the manager 's loan , Newco must continue to comply with s13A(2) — this means it must continue to satisfy the relevant purpose test rather than that it should continue to remain a close company ; in the case of a purchase of shares in Target , the reason why Newco should be close after the institutions commit to invest is to ensure that institutions and management can invest at the same time and that , at that time , Newco is both close and satisfies the relevant purpose test , ie already controls Target ; management can not commit Newco to acquiring Target until the institutions have committed to funding Newco , and once they have so committed the institutions are likely to control Newco under s416 , so a structure is needed whereby management also controls Newco at this point . |
| 27 | Cook away until the anchovies have vanished into a pulp and the sauce has thickened up slightly , possibly 30 minutes . |
| 28 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 29 | At the meetings called in different villages , some proposed a raid on the Rebecca , as the new sloop was called ; others planned to murder the guards in the food stores behind the stockade at Belmont and set them on fire ; but when Dulé and his companions sailed in from Oualie to discuss the best strategy , they suggested slow , persistent attrition : waylaying the occasional soldier or watch outside the compound , or in the sturdy dwellings of the English leaders , until the islanders had accumulated at least twenty guns , as well as the necessary tackle to go with them , the gunpowder kegs and pouches for shot , the ramrods to load the barrels . |
| 30 | This is especially important if the mice have come from a source that is not usually used and if the health status of the colony of origin is unknown . |