Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activities brought together 18 senior members of the newly restructured operations group comprising all the east coast and New Zealand sites . |
| 2 | In addition to the forms described here many other types may be recognised ( see summaries in Cooke and Warren , 1973 , or Mabbutt , 1977 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The clubs have that much power over players it 's as if they own them , and this is n't good for the game in the North . |
| 4 | Now under new ownership the Clubs offer even more facilities and entertainments plus some fabulous special offers for Summer 1990 . |
| 5 | An existing one may be used provided it has the accounts detailed below available within it . |
| 6 | The problem is how to preserve its advantages while giving the institutions concerned as much freedom of manoeuvre as possible . |
| 7 | As the flames became more intense , he said he shouted to the girls to get out . |
| 8 | But the mines became increasingly unprofitable despite efforts to improve them , and in course of time they were " farmed out " to Emanuel and Daniel , both sons of old Höchstetter . |
| 9 | Any notion that the internal division of power within a company was the result of a consensual arrangement between the shareholders seemed purely fictional . |
| 10 | The second difficulty which arose as a result of the legal model 's reliance on the contractual conception of the company was the increasing artificiality of this analysis as the size of companies grew and the shareholders became increasingly passive investors . |
| 11 | As regards items ( a ) and ( c ) above , it will be necessary to you to reassure the target on the mutual benefits of the deal , including career development opportunities and the benefits of synergy , so that the shareholders feel less inclined to commence an informal auction for the target . |
| 12 | The patterns include both short and long sleeved styles which are worked in a variety of stitch patterns for single bed standard gauge knitting . |
| 13 | ‘ The Ministry of Defence and Central Government established a team ten years ago when the disappearances became too frequent and too alarming to be ignored . |
| 14 | At the same time , the hectic expansion of war industries swelled the industrial proletariat by no less than a third , there was a massive influx of refugees from front-line areas , and the cities became increasingly overcrowded , insanitary and disease-ridden . |
| 15 | So now the more abstract , intuitive , and ideological branches of the humanities become more attractive . |
| 16 | The invertebrates include quite large creatures , such as freshwater shrimps and crayfish . |
| 17 | During the late nineteenth century some of the more manipulable aspects of the judicial system were abandoned , but even in the twentieth century the courts generated little moral authority . |
| 18 | It may well be the case that the courts feel less inclined to intervene in relation to matters which are purely factual , but the juridical basis of intervention was never premised upon the need to distinguish between law and fact . |
| 19 | Youth custody is now a single determinate sentence for young offenders and the courts have much greater discretion in ordering the punishment or treatment of offenders . |
| 20 | However , the courts seem quite ready to infer the necessary reliance . |
| 21 | Impressionistically , however , the courts seem more reluctant now to use customs and usages to imply contract terms , although this is possibly because they do not draw the distinction clearly enough between mod-ifying a contract and understanding its terms . |
| 22 | After a while the ducks got so confident that they 'd come right into our garden and eventually into the house itself . |
| 23 | In fact , the Germans detonated only one of the British Army 's mines before the massive explosions that were to herald the attack . |
| 24 | Yet those British ships that reached harbour undamaged on 2 June were refuelled and made ready for sea within five hours , whereas the Germans took nearly four months to prepare their fleet to sail . |
| 25 | But we never use ours unless the Germans get particularly noisy , as on their system of retaliation three for every one of ours come back . |
| 26 | The Germans announced only one hundred and eighty casualties but there were at least twelve hundred German military personnel and six hundred civilians including one hundred and twenty Poles . |
| 27 | The casual bravery of the Russian troops was no match for German massed artillery and machine-gun fire , and the Russians suffered nearly a million casualties ; the Germans had relatively few . |
| 28 | The procedure was repeated the next day , 24 February , the Germans suffering unexpectedly high casualties but remorselessly , if slowly , pushing the French back . |
| 29 | But , so far , government officials involved in negotiating the 1992 directives can not point to instances of the Germans becoming more obstructive . |
| 30 | This is because the claws have so many important functions in the life of a cat . |