Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [coord] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These two groups provided the ‘ steady ’ leadership of labour but were always complemented by the unskilled and the seamen and by socialist intellectuals ( most of whom were manual workers in this period ) working around reproductive issues . |
| 2 | Thanking everyone , Mr. Offer said he had enjoyed working for the parish council , the clubs and with two chairmen of the recreation committee , Wing Commander Archie Derry and Mr. Coyte . |
| 3 | Such notes may be included in the accounts or in separate documents annexed thereto . |
| 4 | The Royal Cross School at that time operated on the Pure Oral system , but the boys were all led to safety by using sign language to communicate amongst the glare of the flames and through dense smoke ! |
| 5 | conclude that the data from the studies of internal validity show that the test does not adequately integrate the eleven subtests , nor does it explain the relationship between the subtests or between subtest performance and other relevant behaviour . |
| 6 | Lord Dacre kept twenty-eight indoor servants at Hurstmonceux who , with a constant stream of visitors , needed prodigious quantities of food both from the estates and from farther-flung markets . |
| 7 | The health visitors at the clinics and on domiciliary visits offer advice and help on many aspects of child-rearing and can refer children for further specialized attention where necessary . |
| 8 | The horse 's hooves and the iron cart rims made a terrible clatter on the cobblestones but at last silence fell as she came to a halt outside our door . |
| 9 | I joined the scheme because I wanted to extend the criminal scope of my practice and this was one way of getting more contact with the courts and with prospective clients . |
| 10 | Editors still had to submit their material for inspection ( after it had been printed , but before it was distributed ) ; they could be penalized both by indictment in the courts and by direct action on the part of the Minister of Internal Affairs ; and they had to lodge monetary bonds with the authorities to facilitate the payment of fines if the government moved against them . |
| 11 | These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves . |
| 12 | That the fox was exhausted is questionable for it did gain the cover of the woods and in all probability survived . |
| 13 | Yet the successful launch of the first Diamant A rocket with its rudimentary A I ‘ Asterix ’ satellite ( or space capsule ) nonetheless made France the world 's third power in space — a feat achieved eight years after the Russians but with minimal resources compared with those of the Russians or the Americans . |
| 14 | Speaking in April 1987 , Yakovlev attacked ‘ dogmatic thinking ’ and located its social origins in that section of the society that had ‘ no interest in development , who are personally satisfied with the customary and convenient status quo , who are unable or unwilling to respond to the challenges of the times and to new phenomena in life ’ . |
| 15 | The common property , if it is more than mere cash in hand or at the bank , will be vested in trustees who must deal with it in accordance with the rules or with any trust expressly declared , and it can be made liable for obligations incurred by , or on behalf of , the society . |
| 16 | Subject to the Rules and to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares , on a show of hands every member who ( being an individual ) is present in person or ( being a recognised body ) is present by a duly authorised corporate representative [ , not being himself a member entitled to vote , ] shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder . |
| 17 | Subject to the Rules and to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares , on a show of hands every member who ( being an individual ) is present in person or ( being a recognised body ) is present by a duly authorised corporate representative [ , not being himself a member entitled to vote , ] shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder . |
| 18 | Parish poorhouses and workhouses were established for the destitute and if there was no work available , the unemployed were put to paid work on the roads or on local farms . |
| 19 | I estimate that our costs for involvement up to the stage of sending out all of the profiles but excluding any meetings with interested parties and subsequent negotiations and structuring will be approximately £ [ ] excluding VAT and outlays . |
| 20 | In term he usually lectured continuously three mornings a week , often to an audience of one , an ancient alarm clock reminding him to change the subject , perhaps from the Paston letters to the Puritans or from Greek epigraphy to the Oxford Movement . |
| 21 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
| 22 | The horsetails reproduce by means of spores , which are born in small cone-like structures at the tip of the branches or on modified shoots . |
| 23 | We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us . |
| 24 | In either case , at the borders and with slight variation in the illumination , it is possible that the exposure is slightly higher or lower than the optimum value for the current conditions . |
| 25 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
| 26 | It was quite clear to me that 260,000 people would be reduced very substantially and that for every person who was made redundant in British Steel , seven people were affected — another three in the family , plus the people serving that family in the shops and in other ways . |
| 27 | We proceed by first setting out the difference equations for the variables and in this case . |
| 28 | Burning brands from the huts and from two galleys the MacIans had fired were seized and thrown into the MacIans ' own ships , to draw some of them away to put out the fires . |
| 29 | ( 6 ) Where an award has been given in the absence of a party , the arbitrator shall have power on that party 's application to set the award aside and to order a fresh hearing as if the award were a judgment and the application were made pursuant to Ord 37 , r 2. ( 7 ) With the consent of the parties and at any time before giving his decision and either before or after the hearing , the arbitrator may consult any expert or call for an expert report on any matter in dispute or invite an expert to attend the hearing as assessor . |
| 30 | He saw crystallisation as being a matter of agreement between the parties and on this reasoning there can be no objection to a charge being made to crystallise on the happening of a specified event . |