Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun prp] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in competition with them the Bournonville ballets did not find favour with the sophisticated Viennese public . |
| 2 | The results for Drouot salerooms for the first six months of 1992 proved to be almost ten per cent down on those of 1991 , a clear case of bad to worse which the Paris auctioneers said showed the art market had ‘ stabilised ’ . |
| 3 | Such patriarchates represented a great design of Church government , which the Hildebrandine popes aimed at replacing with a centralized authority . |
| 4 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 5 | Even Ron Barton of the True Brit , the paper which the Saatchi Brothers claimed had taken the heat out of the Sun , had moved into his brother-in-law 's house in Kemp Town ‘ for the duration ’ . |
| 6 | One factor with which the Baghdad planners had failed to reckon seems to have been the contribution to an enemy 's performance of simple patriotism , the force which impels people to fight to defend their native soil against an invader , whatever they may have to say about the way things are run at home . |
| 7 | Indeed , there could be no greater contrast than that between the social security benefits that have been made liable to tax , and therefore reduced in value , and the way in which the Thatcher Governments have allowed the value of tax benefits to escalate . |
| 8 | Kortlandt argues that the formation of the Great Rift Valley system in East Africa combined with the Nile and Zambezi drainage systems to constitute a geographical barrier to the east of which the Dryopithecine apes adapted to a progressive desiccation of the landscape caused by the rise of the Rift mountain ridges in combination with climatic trends . |
| 9 | There are some 250,000 Salvadoreans now living in regions which the FMLN forces have controlled for a considerable period of time , in some cases for up to three years . |
| 10 | The stone which the East Germans have lifted , however , has revealed so much that is nasty that many East Germans will never again live in comfort with neighbours , workmates , even close relatives . |
| 11 | The only things you will lose , are a couple of repeats which the London players include , and the newcomers do not . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the ambiguities remain and contribute to the uncertainty with which the CMHT members go about and account for their own work . |
| 13 | Mr Leckey said the shoot-out in which the IRA men died was a result of actions by the security forces over a threat to the life of a former UDR soldier in August 1988 . |
| 14 | The statement of claim does not make clear the route or routes by which the U.K. investors acquired their shares . |
| 15 | ( Readers should consult the North Wales Traffic Surveys for 1953 , 1954 and 1962 published by the Manchester Locomotive Society for examples of their territorial gains if possible , and compromised by suggesting that Caernarfon be designated the changeover point , which was certainly a practical solution to which the L.M. boys had no real answer . |
| 16 | Rock and roll was the musical focus of this youth subculture , and the reaction which the Teddy Boys engendered was one of outrage and panic . |
| 17 | ( It should be noted in passing that yet further confusion — and pain to me — was added by Tony Geraghty 's once associating the incident of the missing plane with the unfortunate Operation Loyton , in which the S.A.S. troops posted missing are now known to have been tortured and shot by the Gestapo . ) |
| 18 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 19 | There was a general air of desperation surrounding this match and as Airdrie manager Alex MacDonald conceded afterwards that is an environment in which the Broomfield men tend to flourish . |
| 20 | The assumptions of total British dependence on the USA with which the Clark memoirs show successive British Governments operating in the aftermath of World War II and which were pleaded as necessitating the climb-down in November 1956 were already undergoing an examination which 1956 only accelerated . |
| 21 | The COB Rules differentiate between dealing with a customer as a counterparty and dealing for him as an agent ; this chapter follows that differentiation and also distinguishes between " clients " and " mere " counterparties ( with whom there is no client relationship but who the COB Rules treat as a " customer " , as discussed below ) . |
| 22 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 23 | But there 's also a radio in the police cars that you can talk all the way over in Chelmsford which is twenty two , twenty three miles away , so you can t talk to someone in what the Essex Police call their information room , that 's another piece of equipment . |
| 24 | By the mid-1980s , this became increasingly the accepted view of what the Thatcher years had meant for Britain as a society and a polity . |
| 25 | I asked what the DTI officials had said , and he said that they had told him nothing . |
| 26 | They had been fighting on the same side in a war which is often erroneously characterised as an ethnic conflict ; fighting for what the Serb guerrillas call the ‘ Muslim side ’ . |
| 27 | Just as Goscelin 's statement that Cnut was devoted to St Edith sits somewhat ill with a remarkable tale reported by William of Malmesbury , and may simply reflect what the Wilton nuns wanted people to believe , churchmen writing the histories of their own foundations tended to be prejudiced . |
| 28 | That , too , was what the West Germans thought prior to their opening 1982 World Cup finals game in Spain . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's what the Pittsburgh surgeons have given us . |
| 30 | The Russians would almost certainly insist that any haggling over Eastern Europe include bargaining over Western Europe , which is hardly what the NATO allies want . |