Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Acts gives us many examples of Christian people bearing witness to Jesus , in particular his death and resurrection , to soldiers and governors , prince-lings and mediums , crowds and individuals . |
| 2 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 3 | Mr. Justice Taylor 's report following his inquiry into the Hillsborough stadium disaster commented on the cost of policing and stated : ’ The temptation to the clubs to leave it all to the police is stronger if they are not required to make a realistic payment for police services . ’ |
| 4 | Now that he 's gone , there will be the usual hypocritical outpouring of support , and ministers will join in the attempts to blame it all on nasty tabloid newspapers . |
| 5 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 6 | The Germans reckon it wise to keep tabs on the 350,000 or so Russian troops still in the east — guests , as it were — until the end of 1994 , when the last one is due to have gone home . |
| 7 | Every British academic complains of this problem , but the Germans have it worse because they are almost 30 before they get their degrees , and can not expect an academic job until they get a doctorate and a further qualification for academic teaching , called the habilitation . |
| 8 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 9 | It was a dour afternoon , with few men and women in the streets , which had a pinched , frozen look as if there were not enough fires burning in the houses to keep them snug . |
| 10 | The many tracks through the woods make it easy to get lost — but that 's never bothered me . |
| 11 | No timescale was placed on the proposals to limit US military influence and the USA called on the JSP to clarify its position . |
| 12 | But although ‘ In Place of Strife ’ was in accord with majority public opinion , it was certainly not in accord with Labour Party and union opinion , and although that in itself has not always blocked the parliamentary leadership , this time it became obvious that sufficient Labour MPs would reject the proposals to make it impossible to establish them as law . |
| 13 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 14 | I in Terry was just mentioning his wife 's business , in advertising , d' ya , would sell the advertising space in your feature or your magazine or whatever try and get the bleeders to send you that what they wan na put in it ! |
| 15 | An editorial in The Times sums it all up : |
| 16 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 17 | The rules make it clear that an individual who can show that his or her claim is distinguishable from the rest of the group must have it heard and he or she will be treated individually . |
| 18 | The rules allowed them this 2:1 majority but in the fullness of time it would become unacceptable to members . |
| 19 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |
| 20 | ‘ We can have the Jheri-Curls chasin' us all the time tryin' to cut our hair and throw chemicals in it ! ’ |
| 21 | The smell of bread and baigels freshly from the ovens made me hungry . |
| 22 | Guilty because the authorities declare him guilty , a man must still be able to furnish pretexts for that guilt … |
| 23 | Reports from Zimbabwe suggest that poachers are killing black rhinos even though they have been dehorned by the authorities to make them unattractive to hunters . |
| 24 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |
| 25 | Finance ministers and officials taking part in the meetings made it clear that the whole package of financial aid was conditional on the former Soviet republics pressing ahead to establish market economies and taking prescribed measures for stabilization . |
| 26 | And the most interesting thing is that er the consultees found it difficult to assess the extent of any additional cost arising from deregulation so you had a regulation you had a compliance cost assessment and you had employed people , consulted as to whether in fact that statutory instrument was gon na cost any more . |
| 27 | The letter to the Hebrews makes it clear that the Old Testament sacrifice was at best an incomplete answer to the problem of sin . |
| 28 | The pagans think it important to propitiate gods with sacrifices , yet they have no idea which is the most powerful of them , so that they might be offending the one who most needs propitiating by paying him insufficient attention . |
| 29 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 30 | In anomie theory the impetus that pushes people into crime is that the ambitions for status and pecuniary success that they share with everyone else are thwarted by the restrictions on the opportunities to achieve them that result from low socio-economic status . |