Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are wooden galleries beneath extended eaves in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century farmhouses , and were probably designed for storage purposes originally , but were undoubtedly used in summer by the womenfolk in their cottage industry of spinning the wool of the local Herdwick sheep with spinning wheel and distaff . |
| 2 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |
| 3 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |
| 4 | It will be recalled that following the mutual agreement over the continuation of the Bedfordshire scheme in 1930 and the exceptional arrangements made for Cambridgeshire , the Cambridge Board had established its Rural Areas Committee ( RAC ) in 1932 to expand its provision of Chapter III courses in both counties through the activities of its university resident tutors , Shearman and Baker . |
| 5 | Their ownership right is a limited one which can never apply to the entire enterprise and the activities of its members . ’ |
| 6 | If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde . |
| 7 | The EEIG can be used either to co-ordinate the activities of its participants , or to extend their range . |
| 8 | They want the thing to be sorted out properly in Brussels and they want the French authorities to be told in no uncertain terms that it 's their job to control the activities of their farmers . |
| 9 | So cats coordinate their hunting expeditions with the activities of their prey . |
| 10 | Both parties had their own organisations to co-ordinate the activities of their followers and ensure party unity . |
| 11 | For example , employers and teachers keep registers of attendance and prescribe as well as supervise the activities of their employees/pupils , that is , restriction by intent . |
| 12 | It is also affected by the attitudes of those in the respective management structures , who have power to reward in specific ways the activities of their subordinates . |
| 13 | The so-called ‘ structural ’ approach adopted by these studies concentrates upon the organisational structure of unions rather than focusing upon the activities of their membership . |
| 14 | A good industrial photographer will not be particularly good at portrait work and a fashion photographer will probably not know how to handle food , so if all these areas are represented by the activities of your company or client organisation you will need to find photographers in each field . |
| 15 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
| 16 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 17 | The bulky one , they explained , recorded the activities of his sister , Mrs. Joan Waters , and the other belonged to her husband . |
| 18 | In this small group of tales he first described in the third person how a murder had happened and then in the voice of his " Watson " narrated the activities of his sleuth , Dr Thorndyke , the scientist , in bringing the murderer to book . |
| 19 | ( c ) To keep the Minister on his toes , to ensure he is au fait with the activities of his Department . |
| 20 | Further , as a result of his youth , he had not known the great days of English victories in France , although these had been concerned with the activities of his father , and he himself had been born in Bordeaux not long before his father had crossed to Spain to win his final victory . |
| 21 | Professor Dolley argued that raids on western England in the 980s were partly the responsibility of Scandinavians who had settled in Ireland , and that Æthelred 's expedition into Cumberland in 1000 , and the activities of his fleet in the Irish Sea , were in all likelihood the result of provocation in that area . |
| 22 | Does this mean that regulatory bodies will tend to be too conservative and will over-regulate the activities under their scrutiny ? |
| 23 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 24 | The activities in which citizens are to be engaged are to be far removed from any levers of real political power . |
| 25 | Drama is at one with the rituals , the pageants , the festivals and the processions and all the forms with which men and women celebrate . |
| 26 | ‘ To help you fill out the forms for your cab , so we have your current address . |
| 27 | There are various kinds of node which differ in the forms of their inputs and output , and how the output depends on the inputs . |
| 28 | As was noted , the forms in which relations and attitudes express themselves are largely conventional . |
| 29 | At l'Estaque , Braque was working from nature but one feels that the forms in his painting have not been suggested by those of particular landscapes but rather that he has imposed on the natural scene his own austere , angular , almost geometrical form of vision . |
| 30 | A 1562 edition of the Bible ousted the peacemakers from their inheritance and , at Matthew v.9 , proclaimed ‘ Blessed are the place makers . ’ |