Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the roof I could see the marks of the picks of long-dead miners cut into the rock as they crouched here in the dark , hacking out the ore with no light other than the dim wicks of the oil lamps or the candles stuck on their helmets . |
| 2 | Hardcore porn is openly traded in the cities and exhibited in cinemas and video shops across the country , despite experimental zoning restrictions in certain areas , yet there has been little or no attempt in the courts or the legislatures to discriminate between the greater and lesser dangers it represents . |
| 3 | Save where the Rules or the Funds Rules 1987 provide otherwise , all monies due are paid to the party in whose favour there is a judgment or Order ( Ord 22 , r 1A ) . |
| 4 | Then they were plunging into shadow between the woods of Birnam , hauled along like a leaf on a mill-race , and the hedges and trees never ceased to rock backwards past their staring eyes or the horses to gallop onwards with shoulders working and manes streaming until they were in sight of Perth . |
| 5 | The more populous the parishes became , the more diffuse the community grew , the more acute the problem : no longer did the overseers or the ratepayers know everyone receiving relief , and it was then far from an easy task to sort out the needy from the charlatans . |
| 6 | ‘ In a garrison church , ’ Colonel Ross points out , ‘ when the hymn books or the hassocks disintegrate , the chaplain simply writes a chit and indents the ordnance for more . |
| 7 | On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic . |
| 8 | If both deposits and loans are non-indexed , the losses that the banks make on their loans are compensated by the losses that their depositors make on their deposits . |
| 9 | The financial measures which led to the crisis of 1340–1 and the grievances that the commons laid before parliament in 1339 and 1340 , have been analysed in great detail . |
| 10 | Darwin had himself studied some of these plants , verifying that they do actually consume the flies which land in their pitchers or on their leaves and get caught there , and finding that it was apparently to nitrogenous compounds that the plants responded . |
| 11 | A political storm which had developed in September around the proposed sale of 35 small islands in the Bay of Argolis and the Saronic Gulf abated after a government official , Byron Polydoras , on Oct. 14 assured journalists that the proposals had been that " certain rocky islets " should be leased — not sold — " on a long-term basis for tourist development " . |
| 12 | From his home in Maltby in Yorkshire , he told journalists that the accusations had devastated his children . |
| 13 | As a result mechanization in agriculture has wrought a spectacular change in the implements that the workers use to produce the crop and an equally drastic change in the pace at which each step in the productive process is carried out , but in most branches of agriculture the fundamental sequential organization of production remains undisturbed . |
| 14 | Moreover , the tactics that the police employed raise wider questions about their motives in mounting this massive — and very costly — operation . |
| 15 | The images that the parties convey are important , more so than their stance on specific issues . |
| 16 | These diagrams highlight the relationships that the documents reflect , in particular any hierarchical structure that the document shows . |
| 17 | And of course it is through an examination of the quality and nature of relationships that the problematics arise . |
| 18 | People receiving these words in a mood of sorrow , therefore , have little option but to shut out the emotionally distressing pictures that the words seem to convey . |
| 19 | This is a poor harvest from those weeks or months that the Pounds spent in Sicily ; and indeed it is no harvest at all , since none of these allusions depends in any way on the poet 's having been physically present in the island . |
| 20 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 21 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 22 | Japan and Britain : An Aesthetic Dialogue 1850–1930 will be held at the Barbican Art Gallery and surveys the art of Japan and Britain , showing the influences that the cultures had on one another . |
| 23 | All four of the properties described above make it less likely that central banks would ever have to defend parities that the markets had come to regard as indefensible . |
| 24 | For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers . |
| 25 | There are also differences in the schools that the children attend , in who recognizes whom as a neighbour , and in the use of village shops and other facilities . |
| 26 | Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again . |
| 27 | I do n't know any of the Beatles songs and the girls sing them on top of their desks . |
| 28 | Never be satisfied with your performance in these sessions until the results start showing in terms of better performance from those you manage . |
| 29 | The hole in the screen coincided with screams and the lights going up and the immediate disappearance of the images . |
| 30 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |