Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You choose the form that best suits what you need to say , remembering always that the forms exist to help you say what you want to . |
| 2 | In supporting a transition to adulthood , how does youth training differentiate between groups of young people ? for some young Black trainees , disproportionately represented in workshop-based schemes , the programmes serve to shape them into acceptable employees within a market which discriminates against them and to ease them gently out of their aspirations into the reality of restricted choice ( Corbett 1990 ) . |
| 3 | It is not merely a question of its vastness ( it is the second largest country in the world , measuring 9.2 million square kilometres ) , but its breathtaking grandeur : God 's own country , as the Canadians delight to call it . |
| 4 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 5 | Despite this , the effectiveness of the newly amended s.62 will depend largely on how the courts decide to interpret it . |
| 6 | Lying across the East-West divide , the Germans began to feel they had a special understanding of world peace , as well as that they had been singled out by the ‘ Great Powers ’ as Europe 's potential war playground . |
| 7 | Well it 's a place in Italy where the Germans tried to take it . |
| 8 | Acorn says that major shareholder Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is wholly supportive of its strategy and the plans developed to implement it . |
| 9 | One of the " Greek Serenity " plans attempts to subsume them under " tragedy itself " ; a memorandum elsewhere suggests rewriting them ; another of the plans seems to omit them altogether . |
| 10 | In both cases the interviewers wanted to appoint him but they were told they could not by their authorities . |
| 11 | As a secular leader , the king may have had charge of the army , although this may have been only a ceremonial role , since the tablets seem to tell us that there were generals . |
| 12 | But in the end they and the Russians decided to install him on his fathers throne ; They reasoned that the could always be replaced if he did not do as was required . |
| 13 | The Trains made for the French wash but the Russians decided to go it alone , a tactical error . |
| 14 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 15 | The Empire has many well made cannon and the skills required to operate them . |
| 16 | Key competencies are an important part of Robson Rhodes ' performance management system , which sets targets and outlines the skills needed to achieve them . |
| 17 | The types of disturbances which could do this are sudden changes in investment , balance of payments crises , changes in the money supply , rapid inflation and the policies designed to curb it , population movements , industrial disputes , or even wars . |
| 18 | Indeed , an important element of the boom was the mass production of durable goods and the improvement of the technologies required to produce them . |
| 19 | She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital . |
| 20 | However , Richard Baxter had only preached in his new meeting house once , when the authorities moved to arrest him once more . |
| 21 | These special deposits are frozen , and can not be drawn on until the authorities choose to release them . |
| 22 | Before 1914 , war propaganda had not been traditionally a British trait and the authorities leaned to use it following the examples of the French and Germans . |
| 23 | Before 1914 , war propaganda had not been traditionally a British trait and the authorities leaned to use it following the examples of the French and Germans . |
| 24 | In the end the cops had to let us out . |
| 25 | When the cops went to see him again this afternoon , he flatly refused to say why he was there , where he stayed , or anything about the trip . |
| 26 | If the Puritans refused to compromise they would have to be ruthlessly suppressed . |
| 27 | If these benefits were aimed at the poor — the people who really need them — instead of at everybody , public spending and the taxes required to finance it could fall sharply . |
| 28 | The blokes tried to get us out with water — the firehoses . |
| 29 | In Liverpool from late December 1888 the waterfront was seething with discontent , three major strikes took place , permanent unions emerged , the employers combined to oppose them and the traditional relationships between employers and employees were lastingly shattered " . |
| 30 | There the voter chooses just one candidate on a list ; the total number of votes received by a party 's candidates determines its proportionate entitlement of seats ; and the candidates elected to fill them are those who have the most votes . |