Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The net result is that the Scottish Office and the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland are trying hard to get the message across — tackle the forms immediately with the 15 May deadline in mind .
2 Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ?
3 The statutory assignment has the advantage of enabling the purchaser to enforce the contracts directly against the supplier rather than through the vendor .
4 So they 're carrying out the checks initially on the the capabilities and the financial soundness of the , of the proposed supplier .
5 AIDS must have been exceedingly rare before the mid-1970s anywhere in the world .
6 When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field .
7 Drop the anchors overboard in the correct position and the bottles will float , holding the anchor rope on the surface and ready to tie to the punt every time you fish that swim .
8 The Greek word axioma originally meant " request " ; the reader is requested to accept the axioms unquestioningly as the rules of the game .
9 And the flames all round the pontoon .
10 Lewis 's and Blackler 's burnt out , and Lime Street — you ca n't hardly move for the hosepipes all over the ground . ’
11 Martin 's not coming after school today , his granny Jean 's going to meet him because his mum has to go to Scotland with her work so Trevor has to push the triplets home in the buggy .
12 Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion .
13 At the same time it received a B.2 trolley mast , hoops over the end of the upper deck , folding platform steps and slatted gates between the bogies instead of the wire cages .
14 If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required .
15 As Divisional Construction Manager , Jim Gillespie says : ‘ The contractors are not taking the estates away from the tenants , but working with them , to improve their environment . ’
16 One engineer made the fatal mistake of putting Bluecol anti-freeze in the header tank of the toilets instead of the main engine fresh water header tank .
17 Husayn was aware of the dangers long before the Uprising .
18 But Kendall 's patience with his struggling stars ran out after the dismal defeat at Sheffield United edged the Merseysiders closer to the relegation zone .
19 He will take action in the courts equally for the State as for the individual against any local authority acting ‘ ultra vires ’ , that is , beyond their powers .
20 To help the courts in sentencing decisions , the Government also proposes that the legislation should place a new duty on the Secretary of State to inform the courts annually of the costs of implementing penalties …
21 I then hung the skeins outside on the washing line to allow the fresh air to blow the yarn dry .
22 I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large .
23 The Team Time Trial around Libourne takes the riders close to the classic vineyards of St-Émilion , Lussac and Pomerol , where the most sought after clarets in the world are grown .
24 You should write up the notes immediately after the call before the memory of the call fades ( see figure 7 )
25 In this form of note-taking , only keywords and main points are recorded , and it is important to copy up the notes soon after the lecture in order to fix the train of thought .
26 The other day I bought the enchanting ASV CD of clarinet Concertos by played by Emma Johnson and read the notes only as an afterthought this morning , having already listened to the disc several times .
27 But now the water 's evaporating , killing the tiny fish that brought the birds here in the first place , and as the food source disappears , many birds are dying .
28 For the Rangoon General Hospital , which will be built on loose sandy soil , Ove Arup proposes to solve the liquefaction problem by laying the foundations deep in the ground , so that the weight of the building will roughly equal that of the soil dug out .
29 They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing .
30 I get to my feet and go over to the window , easing back the soft material , looking at the houses opposite in the half-light .
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