Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
| 2 | But a few instants later , she needed no other support than the strong arms that seized her and gathered her to a broad chest , the lips in her hair uttering the words that sent the blood rushing through her veins . |
| 3 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 4 | You really can not tell me too much — I would rather sift through a huge amount of detail and give you a definite answer than have to suggest all the possible alternatives and leave you to figure out which applies in your case . |
| 5 | The study of portraits on coins is therefore as much about the political factors that influenced them as about their intrinsic or moral interest . |
| 6 | It is necessary to examine the idea of coalitionism and the political forces that made it a powerful alternative before considering its direct impact on the Unionist party . |
| 7 | But in fashioning his movement , Baden-Powell skilfully wove together any number of the political questions that preoccupied his contemporaries , and the movement 's spectacular growth drew on deep funds of social anxiety — anxieties which invariably settled around the excessive liberty allowed to young people and the attendant demoralisation which was , in turn , linked to a newly perceived upsurge in crime and violence among the young . |
| 8 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 9 | When the subject enters the political arena and becomes politically controversial , we assume an elective silence on the political issues and confine ourselves , if we intervene at all , to constitutional or legal questions or views on practical matters affecting the law and its administration where our views may naturally be expected and sought . |
| 10 | Ember moved with an ease that soon took him out of sight among the frost-clawed rocks and left her panting , furious with him but unable to catch up to say a single one of the angry remarks cartwheeling through her mind . |
| 11 | Lee Rodwell on the conflicting views that leave her feeling muddled and guilty |
| 12 | That meant that social workers would collect the child from the foster parents and take her to a venue where the grandparents would be able to visit , said Mr Nott . |
| 13 | I 've got to have something that I can mark , to the representative marks that show your , your ability and how much you 've put into it . |
| 14 | However , in the past the courts have tended to adopt a different approach and first " look at the contract apart from the exempting clauses and see what are the terms , express or implied , which impose an obligation on the party " ( Lord Denning in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 ) and only then consider the impact of the exclusion on that liability . |
| 15 | ‘ Six years , and then burning up this last week I 've spent in Singapore , regretting the entrenched prejudices that stopped me making love to you last time we were together . |
| 16 | However , make sure you have recovered all of the stolen objects and returned them to their curators . |
| 17 | He predicted that his party would pick up a fourth seat in the Lower Falls and hold its three seats in Upper Falls — giving it a total of 10 seats on the council . |
| 18 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 19 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 20 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 21 | Now also , knowing that there 's only just over five hundred or just six hundred members of the Liberal Democrats , in the eight constituencies that comprise our Euro constituency , there will be many benefits that can come off a Euro campaign in terms of membership , in terms of helpers , in in terms of morale and generally raising our profile , just through press contacts and things like that . |
| 22 | The Iranian policies that frighten its neighbours and the wider world are said to include the promotion of international terrorism , attempts to obstruct peace between Israel and the Arabs and a burning ambition to acquire long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction . |
| 23 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 24 | THE leaders on the third leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race have cleared the southern tip of Tasmania and the outlying islands and begun their passage across the Tasman Sea to Cape Reinga at the north end of the North Island of New Zealand , writes Bob Fisher . |
| 25 | Graham calling from in Sussex , is it the economic aspects that concern you most ? |
| 26 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 27 | They do n't ca they do n't care I used to say that a if I said that to Steven pack it in , somebody will hear , he 'd say well open the bloody windows and let them hear ! |
| 28 | When Josè , the Portuguese housekeeper whom they had promoted to become a shop manager , had nowhere to live , they bought her a house , oversaw the extensive repairs and stocked it with furniture . |
| 29 | Many escaped to Gibraltar , joined the Allied armies and distinguished themselves in the fight against Hitler . |
| 30 | Michele secured the motor-boat to one of the mooring rings and handed her out . |