Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should perhaps be mentioned that there are also accounting exemptions for medium-sized companies ( annual turnover not exceeding £5750000 ) but these are modest and are barely worth the effort and expense of preparing separate accounts for the shareholders and filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 2 | The colour range is amazing and there is generally enough for the hems and sewing on the buttons of one garment on each reel . |
| 3 | It 's cramped if there are four of you , but the atmosphere is very friendly and relaxed — neighbours popping in to borrow a cup of sugar or a 50p coin for the electricity meter , children running along the balconies or playing on the thin strip of grass between the blocks . |
| 4 | He spent 5 months in the house , hiding from the Germans and fighting with the Resistance . |
| 5 | You can visualise the inputs as coming from an array of photo-electric cells , which we call its retina . |
| 6 | And to this day , narcissus flowers can be found growing wild in the woods and sprouting around the banks of a silent pool . |
| 7 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 8 | Perhaps there is some activity you have often thought you would try ‘ sometime ’ : Is now the opportunity to begin dog-training , Jogging , meditation , writing to The Times or writing for the radio ? |
| 9 | British consul David Hook was in Waco liaising with the authorities and checking on the health of the three British children released earlier and now recovering in the care of the local child protection agency . |
| 10 | The coupled signal causes the current I and potential difference V to fluctuate about the values and corresponding to the point O. Assuming that the capacitor exhibits negligible reactance at the operating frequency so that it couples the signal properly , Thévenin transformation reveals an effective signal circuit connected to the nonlinear network terminals comprising e.m.f. in series with resistance . |
| 11 | Miss Jarman was heaving herself out of the carriage with the help of the crabbed old driver ; marching up the steps and rapping on the front door shouting : |
| 12 | Two or three pairs of hands roamed sensuously over the alloy frame , tentatively flexing the brakes and fiddling with the gear shift . |
| 13 | The afternoon was spent in Winchester wandering around the shops and going to the cathedral . |
| 14 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 15 | to the last meeting , it was my understanding the same as everybody el everybody else that we have not the funds or budgeting for a camera in this financial year and that approved . |
| 16 | A WOMAN stole over £11,000 after fiddling the books while working as an accountant at The Bush Hotel , Farnham . |
| 17 | Even the cheapest bed should have five layers of upholstery usually starting with a thick layer of padding over the springs and ending with the decorative cover . |
| 18 | Yeah because I do n't think anything will will work unless it 's what the people who are living in the circumstances and living in the situation erm , if it 's not going to relevant to their lives then , you 're wasting the money . |
| 19 | Now that we have considered the type of information which the law deems as illegitimate for stock market trading , let us move on and look at some of the circumstances when trading on the basis of such information is illegal . |
| 20 | Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ . |
| 21 | As one , they shrank away from the far wall , watching rainwater trickling through the cracks in the boards and spattering on the basement floor . |
| 22 | Tony Long , who sat on a government working party discussing the directive in the mid-1980s while working for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , now runs WWF 's Brussels office . |
| 23 | — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails . |
| 24 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 25 | Coming out of the libraries and walking through the courtyard towards the gate at the other end , you will see on your left the façade of the Church of St Mary . |
| 26 | The covers are being produced at the moment and I have asked Margaret Lockhart at CPU to get estimates for copying the contents and combining with the cover and binding so that this can be done a.s.a.p after the September Social Work Committee . |
| 27 | When the table was ready she filled a deep pan with water and put it on the cooker , her movements slow and simpering in contrast to those of her mother , who quickly poured olive oil into a big black frying-pan , threw in the artichokes , covered them and rinsed her hands and arms before drawing a chair up to one of the cauldrons and sliding into the curd up to her elbows . |
| 28 | The parents were periodically leaving the eggs and picking in the gravel at the front of the tank . |
| 29 | ‘ There were pots on the cookers and washing on the lines — so symbolic of normal life — yet all around would be chaos and death . |
| 30 | Get your priorities right ; leave handing round the scones or letting in the dogs until later on . |