Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] various [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scuttlers also jealously guarded the territorial seclusion of their local beer-house — known as the ‘ blood-house ’ or ‘ blood-tub ’ — and they were such a force in Lancashire that the public authorities made various petitions to the Home Secretary for sterner repressive measures to put them down . |
| 2 | Because while various reference books provide various definitions of the word , they all agree that research is hard work , which extends the boundaries of knowledge . |
| 3 | The first is four lectures at the Royal Society of Arts to celebrate various anniversaries in the conservation world : In Search Of Neptune , Dr. John Harvey , Chief Adviser on Nature Conservation ( 8 October ) ; The Landmark Experience , Robin Evans , Director of the Landmark Trust ( 15 October ) ; Common Roots , Rodney Legg , Chairman of the Open Spaces Society ( 22 October ) ; and Lochs , Lairds and Legends , Christopher Hartley ( 29 October ) . |
| 4 | While other network companies mooted various ideas with the ITA for absorbing LWT or making London a single franchise — ideas that were anathema — Murdoch won reluctant ITA approval to buy the General Electric Company 's 7.5 per cent of the voting shares ( and a larger block of non-voting shares , which did not require approval ) . |
| 5 | The data is held as a two-dimensional array , each row representing a part in which each of the columns containing various data about the parts . |
| 6 | My officials have met representatives of the local education authorities to discuss various aspects of the new proposals and there has also been correspondence with the Department . |
| 7 | In some languages , the status attributive has to be marked in moderately complicated ways ; for instance , the adjective instantiating P may have to " agree with its noun " ; that is , it may have to take on affixes reflecting various features of the noun which instantiates the E in ( 1 ) , such as its number or the noun class to which it belongs . |
| 8 | In interviews with a number of panel members filling various roles in the project , and including members of the coordinating committee , it was generally acknowledged that the panel was often less than well chaired , with a fairly universal feeling that it lacked direction and a clear sense of purpose . |
| 9 | Specific features included in text but not in node are attributes representing various details of the internal structure of an item of text . |
| 10 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 11 | News reports gave various names for the group , including the " Armed Islamic Movement " or the Takfir wal-Hijra organization . |
| 12 | The women have various attitudes to the donor 's involvement in their child 's upbringing . |
| 13 | Expert clauses take various approaches to the question of whether the procedure the expert is to follow in the reference should be set out in the expert clause . |
| 14 | After giving a short overview of the history of the line he showed us a selection of slides covering various aspects of the line . |