Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , when one of the climbers became stuck in the ‘ MOUNTAINEERING ’ section the rest had to rescue him and the search was abandoned . |
| 2 | The hotel has a gorgeous pool , glassed all around so that bathers can watch the peaks turning pink in the evening sun . |
| 3 | This went on for well over a month , with the owls flying free in the barn , until we were sure they were confident and happy in their surroundings . |
| 4 | But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme . |
| 5 | I could already see the books piled high in the better shops , garlanded with white slips of praise . |
| 6 | They are primarily concerned with the use of letters rogatory , the device which had over the centuries become well-established in the practice of States , and not only those of the civil law tradition , and which remains central to the procedures for obtaining evidence from another jurisdiction . |
| 7 | As the town began to grow and at the same time fragment in strange , squalid and unforeseen ways , the gardens became symbolic in a different fashion . |
| 8 | Similarly , Thatcher provides abundant evidence which shows that while most of the workers made redundant in the industrial sector were men , most of the expansion in the public services was in female employment . |
| 9 | All the grasses stood still in the wicked sunlight until the evil had to loosen its hold , and the shadows came back , and a little breeze , and the earth began to turn again . |
| 10 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |
| 11 | More recently , the lenders became interested in the professional . |
| 12 | The mowers went out into the little fields of wheat and oats , and the sheaves stood yellow in the stubble . |
| 13 | This includes making sure parents know the reasons for professional concern , the statutory powers , duties and roles of the agencies involved , their legal rights , and any changes in the family which the agencies consider necessary in the interests of the child . |
| 14 | Knots of office workers in various poses hid the bar , girls in high-heeled shoes and heavy make-up , men in cheap suits and loud ties : only the glasses hanging suspended in a rack above their heads indicated where drinks were being dispensed . |
| 15 | Henceforward the Americans became involved in the fate of South Vietnam , tying their fortunes to those of the Diem government . |
| 16 | Expatriates , who between the wars numbered 80,000 in a city of half a million , began to depart . |
| 17 | As the Soviets became involved in a long struggle with Afghan guerrillas , similar in some respects to America 's involvement in Vietnam , Carter began to take punitive measures against Moscow but without fully consulting his NATO allies . |
| 18 | ‘ I know I did , but that was before I knew the labels were typed on Dick Tavett 's typewriter and that the bags matched those in the Post 's stationery stockroom . ’ |
| 19 | The archers loosed blind in the darkness , but could do so only once without imperilling their friends , for after the shock of meeting it was stark hand to hand work without any daylight art about it , first a hacking and swinging ahead at any flesh that moved , then body to body fumbling where everyone panted out words in his own tongue to be safe from his comrades , and even swords were of little use . |
| 20 | The court heard the police became involved in the case at Mr Donnellan 's insistence . |
| 21 | The police remained silent in the face of such speculation . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the Company failed to get Corporation sanction for this , and so the trailers remained disused in the depot until replaced by new cars 9 and 10 , built by Milnes in 1891 . |
| 23 | Although the phrase ‘ care workers ’ is not in general use , the term has been chosen to describe a wide range of people who may be employed in the voluntary or statutory sectors and who have responsibility for the services made available in the community to support old people and their caring relatives . |
| 24 | The area was increasingly important because British trade with the Turks increased eight-fold in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 25 | The victims lay dead in the apartment . |
| 26 | The studios sleep 2–3 in a sleeping area/lounge and have a separate kitchenette , private bathroom and balcony . |
| 27 | The night wind died away , and the stones looked black in the half-light . |
| 28 | How is the Careers Service involved in the Partnership ? |
| 29 | The Grounds looked empty in the afternoon light , and only the grass moved in the wind . |