Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun pl] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First is the inadequate definition of gold and silver , which leaves it up to the jury empanelled by the coroner , to whom the objects have been handed over , to decide if they are treasure or not . |
| 2 | Some of them indeed seemed to be at the service , looking somehow different from the ‘ office workers ’ for whom the services had been arranged . |
| 3 | Therefore the two sections could not take title away from the owner from whom the goods had been stolen . |
| 4 | She prayed to the spirits of the long dead gods to whom the stones had been erected . |
| 5 | The incubation period may be up to one year , and this makes it difficult in many cases to decide from whom the warts have been caught ; not only that , but they often seem to have been seeded on the principle adhered to by market gardeners , to give successive crops over a long period . |
| 6 | MY work has been written in sand and after my death will disappear in a decade or so , ’ wrote August Bournonville ( 1805–79 ) , the Danish choreographer whose ballets are still in the repertory , and whom the Danes have been celebrating with yet another Bournonville festival in Copenhagen . |
| 7 | Sullivan then surrendered the embassy and opened the steel doors to the second floor of the chancery , which the attackers had been trying to batter down . |
| 8 | The ticket prices range from £65 for Jose Carreras to £40 — £45 for the other concerts , which the organisers admit is n't cheap . |
| 9 | That 's why they are determined to triumph on Tuesday and lift themselves into a respectable position in Group Three from which the favourites to qualify are Spain , Denmark and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 10 | These are done using the formula Wealth 1 — Wealth 0 as illustrated in the chapter as this is the only way of calculating profit to which the students have been exposed to date . |
| 11 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 12 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
| 13 | This inquiry can not be conducted in isolation from the general developments that have occurred in connection with judicial review of executive authority , an area in which the courts have been extremely active . |
| 14 | The predictable result of this has been a plethora of cases in which the courts have been called upon to rule in what circumstances an assault may be described as sexual . |
| 15 | However , Mrs Thatcher did not go into any detail about how the suggested British scheme for allowing different currencies to compete freely throughout the Community would necessarily produce the kind of central bank and co-ordinated monetary and economic policies which the others believe is essential . |
| 16 | In sum , then , there is no reason to believe that , in a complex machine , the real processes can be inferred reliably from any number of observations of internal behaviour ( in the sense in which the changing of register contents expressed in binary numbers is internal behaviour ) , in the absence of knowledge of a quite different type : the language in which the processes have been expressed to the machine . |
| 17 | One method which has previously been tried , albeit unsuccessfully , seeks to invoke principles of international law that would allegedly relieve taxpayers from their liability to pay tax on the ground that their assessments are rendered invalid by the unlawful purposes to which the taxes levied are to be applied . |
| 18 | During the period in which the Conservatives have been in power it was said , first , that we needed only one terminal , Waterloo . |
| 19 | Drawings of sections usually portray everything that can be seen , including the boundaries between layers , because this information may provide clues to the processes by which the layers have been deposited . |
| 20 | Pressed by the men , they offered various compromises at the April 1910 negotiations of which the minutes have been kept . " |
| 21 | To put these contentions into effect the applicant made two applications in the district court to which the cases had been transferred . |
| 22 | Elementary description had a natural place particularly where " errors of description " had been excepted and the courts tended to discover some measure of description by which the goods had been sold ( see for example Taylor v Bullen ( 1850 ) 5 Ex 779 ) . |
| 23 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 24 | The small meadow in which the Brownies met was dotted with clumps of bushes and young trees , and most other parts of Longreen Park were wooded , so it could be understood why a pilot should choose what looked like a clear open green space to land his plane on . |
| 25 | Kindred spirits reaffirmed loyalties which the authorities had been trying to suppress . |
| 26 | Early in the twentieth century these figures were replaced by police statistics which , unlike the earlier series , included cases for which there was no specific accused person , but excluded cases which the authorities believed were false . |
| 27 | But the independence being sought for in higher education , and for which the rights to learn are necessary conditions , is an independence of thought which is exercised within a dialogue with others . |
| 28 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
| 29 | There was no suggestion that an innocent recipient should be permitted to use the documents ( by the same token there was no suggestion that the recipients were innocent of the means by which the documents had been obtained ) . |
| 30 | The Divisional Court said that this did not matter and was not caught by section 78 , which the judges stressed was concerned with no more than the narrow question of the effect of the police practice on the fairness of the proceedings in court . |