Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , make sure you have recovered all of the stolen objects and returned them to their curators . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Many escaped to Gibraltar , joined the Allied armies and distinguished themselves in the fight against Hitler . |
| 18 | Michele secured the motor-boat to one of the mooring rings and handed her out . |
| 19 | Whatever I use , whether it is a crystal ball , a pack of cards , or an article belonging to somebody , it is simply a stageprop ; something that gives me the right vibrations and helps me to see the right pictures . ’ |
| 20 | So good that , providing you take it to the right places and use it expertly , you should have no difficulty in doubling your pocketmoney every week . |
| 21 | But unless you can grasp the private contractors and make them cooperate within this or encourage them to do so , there 's absolutely no way you can have a so-called seamless journey . |
| 22 | Leopold 's tragedy was that of a parent whose cherished child spurns his advice in adolescent rebellion ; but , unlike , for example , Alessandro Scarlatti , another musician father with a son more brilliant than himself , Leopold could never quite bring himself to untie the emotional leashes and allow his own ‘ young eagle whose wings are grown ’ to find his own way in the world . |
| 23 | This will kill the green blob lurking in the watery depths and help you avoid the workman . |
| 24 | We count the florid banknotes and hand them over across the desk . |
| 25 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 26 | I knew that Quechua , the lineal descendant of the Inca language , was spoken by the majority of the Peruvian Indians and told him that in the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland there were similar tensions . |
| 27 | The law ensured the " autonomy " of the armed forces but expanded their existing responsibilities for sovereignty and national territorial integrity to involve them in civil defence and the restoration of internal order at the request of the head of the Senate . |
| 28 | On March 8 , 1991 , Defence Minister ter Beek announced a 10-year plan to reorganize the military which would cut the size of the armed forces but improve their mobility and flexibility . |
| 29 | These powerful mountain-dwelling Elves leapt among the Naggarothi assassins and chopped them down with their great axes , saving Caledor 's life . |
| 30 | Carefully he inserted his gloved fingers beneath the frontal lobes and lifted them up . |