Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These consist of all the activities which look good in the brochure but no one ever actually does , like windsurfing ( on a pond ) , clay-pigeon shooting ( which costs 20 quid ) or canoeing ( on a pond ) , . |
| 2 | One of the activities we have great hopes for is our private appeal which will run alongside our public fundraising . |
| 3 | Paul started making the sofas he calls driving seats last Spring and he 's already sold thirty.Some have gone abroad to Canada , the United States and Germany . |
| 4 | Paul started making the sofas he calls driving seats last Spring and he 's already sold thirty.Some have gone abroad to Canada , the United States and Germany . |
| 5 | The superstars who race fearsome 175bhp four cylinder twostrokes in the 15 GP 's , stretching from Japan , Australia and America through Europe to Brazil and Malaysia , are the most famous and best paid performers in bikesport . |
| 6 | Or were the acts which produced this end so far away from them in time that somehow the temporal distance anaesthetised reality ? |
| 7 | The attitudes which dominate any society usually reflect the interests of the most powerful and influential social groups . |
| 8 | Her portraits are largely of summer visitors , but some are of the seafarers who live all year round at Sheringham and have done so for generations . |
| 9 | but I only went round Dor Dorman Longs because the man who 's in charge of the labourers who moved all the machinery about er I sort of went with him see I did n't |
| 10 | And this from a club which stands to gain most from the package Liverpool are sure to figure highly among the clubs who go live on TV . |
| 11 | Inevitably members of the Bar will be looking to a large extent to those areas of expenditure detailed on pages 7 and 8 of the accounts which show substantial increases over the previous year . |
| 12 | The task of the institutions which prepare young people to become teachers within the schools is equally clear . |
| 13 | What is often called public ‘ ( mis ) understanding ’ of scientific knowledge ( eg about technological risks ) thus may be more to do with public judgements about the credibility of the institutions which control that knowledge , or with the pragmatic translation of scientific information . |
| 14 | These are important considerations ; but you must ask whether they are a good reason to opt for non-intervention , or , rather , a reason to improve the support services available to parents or the institutions which house such children . |
| 15 | Of the climbers who made written comment , the majority were in favour of a bolt placement . |
| 16 | And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them . |
| 17 | We need to be clearer about the interactions which affect this , and whether there are substantially more breakdowns when mental infirmity , especially dementia , is present in old people , or whether other factors are of equal significance . |
| 18 | The dangers which threaten those who make pronouncements about essential books in a National Curriculum had already been revealed when Mr Baker in a speech in 1988 said he thought all children aged 16 should have read George Orwell 's Animal Farm . |
| 19 | In his Jungle of the Cities he used contrived precise dates and times for each episode . |
| 20 | ‘ NOT TO THE GLORY of war , but to the Canadians who inherit these legends of valour and devotion to duty . ’ |
| 21 | The riders who finish third in the semi-finals will ride off the back grid . |
| 22 | He expended large sums in the construction of this city , and in the foundations he ordered several decapitated criminals to be placed as a sign of sacrifice . ’ |
| 23 | The technique used is much the same as that used in hospitals to find fractures in bones ; where the metal is broken the film is blackened by the X-rays which pass unhindered through the break ; where the metal is densest , more of the X-rays are stopped and the film remains pale . |
| 24 | Since then there have been other men in her life but tonight , the plans I laid all those years ago reach fruition as I proudly introduce my partner for the evening . |
| 25 | The prisoners who went insane were those who were illiterate and without imagination . |
| 26 | But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices . |
| 27 | In complementary essays on Josiah Wedgwood , McKendrick ( 1983 : 100–45 ) and Forty ( 1986 : 13–41 ) chart the strategies which fostered new patterns of emulation and marketing , and the birth of the modern professional designer . |
| 28 | It is for this reason that for the central part of the projects we selected representative variables that occur frequently and can therefore be quantified in terms of the full range of speaker-variables . |
| 29 | When I used to get all excited about the projects you got involved with years ago , you used to slap me down with that . |
| 30 | Different combinations and arrangements of the atoms form the molecules which range all the way from simple inorganic or non-living compounds like salts , water , oxygen and carbon dioxide to the highly complex organic substances elaborated by living systems and which are essential for their proper functioning . |