Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judgments were very short and appear to have been extempore . |
| 2 | This is quite different from the case with books where the activities are very often carried out in different locations . |
| 3 | The activities are then decomposed until such time as the related resources ( eg people , time , money , skills etc ) which need to be committed to the procedure can be clarified . |
| 4 | The portents are not what one would call auspicious . |
| 5 | With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good . |
| 6 | Very early on Sunday morning , before 9 o'clock in fact , Trevor Ward must have known that the portents were not good . |
| 7 | Whereas PCs are often sold at 25 per cent to 30 per cent discount , the accessories are not discounted at such high levels . |
| 8 | The disciplines are always on the move , generating new meanings and insights . |
| 9 | Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road . |
| 10 | If the principle ever was firmly established , it has gone , but the principle 's underlying weight is protected by the fact that the defences are there in law . |
| 11 | Although a good deal of excavation has taken place at Alcester , especially in the south-western suburb around Birch Abbey , very little has received full publication.6 Excavations in the fortified area of the town have always been difficult owing to the presence of modern buildings , but with new developments taking place , they have at last become feasible ; even now , though , the line of the defences is still imperfectly known . |
| 12 | For example , the defences were firmly dated to the reign of Hadrian , although Antonine pottery was found in the rampart , but dismissed with the remarkable statement ‘ the overwhelming pre-Antonine character of the mass of associated pottery suggests the earlier , rather than the later of Dr Oswald 's limiting date for the exceptional sherd ’ , i.e. AD 130 — 50 . |
| 13 | The continents are where they are and have the mountains they have because of the action of the Earth itself ; the eruption of volcanoes and the shifting of plates of the Earth 's crust ( plate tectonics ) . |
| 14 | This , Wegener explained , was because the continents were not fixed , but drifted like ships on the earth 's surface . |
| 15 | The continents were not stationary , but drifted slowly over the earth 's surface , driven by the convection currents moving deep in the earth 's mantle . |
| 16 | But it is worth remembering that early in Earth 's history the continents were much smaller than they are now . |
| 17 | Wallace shared Darwin 's view that the continents were essentially permanent but realized that other geological changes might have affected the possibility of overland migrations . |
| 18 | Wait until the seed-heads are fully ripe . |
| 19 | The patterns could be interpreted in different ways ; one possibility is to argue that the correlation with extra-linguistic variables constitutes evidence that the forms are simply different ways of saying the same thing , that differences in modal meaning which do not affect truth-conditions are merely stylistic and so may be ignored . |
| 20 | These are obvious cases because the forms are linguistically or stylistically related , and in one of them it will be shown later that the name became hereditary — as Forsey — down to the twentieth century . |
| 21 | The forms are severely simplified : tubular tree-trunks , heavily stylized masses of foliage and ‘ cubic ’ houses . |
| 22 | ‘ I must not omit to tell you , ’ wrote Gould nonchalantly in a letter to Jardine on 16 January 1837 , ‘ that Mr Darwin 's Collection of Birds ( made during the late survey under Capn FitzRoy ) are exceedingly fine ; they are placed in my hands to describe ; some of the forms are very singular particularly those from the Gallipagos [ sic ] . |
| 23 | Once the forms are in , then they lose their amateur status and probationary members are on trial to make sure their play is up to standard . |
| 24 | The forms are more crudely simplified than in Cézanne , and while there is the same sensation of recession that one gets from Cézanne 's paintings , as one 's eye moves from one clearly defined plane to another , Braque 's paintings are composed in such a way that the feeling of depth is very restricted . |
| 25 | Once again the forms are more solid , more firmly drawn and roundly modelled than in Braque 's contemporary work . |
| 26 | Picasso 's landscapes are more incisive and linear , and the solidity of the forms is deliberately emphasized . |
| 27 | Here again most of them are inconveniently faint , and in no cases can the forms be properly seen with binoculars . |
| 28 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 29 | this is what I 'm fighting for , I 'm fighting for equal rights , and I 'm fighting to get more women into further education cos I think it 's it 's a very basic that we all need to go into and it 's hard , and the openings are n't there women to go into , you 've got to fight for it , yeah ! |
| 30 | But the essays are most demanding and ultimately most productive when they too occupy that position of liminality between the discourses that uneasily constitute us and our knowledge of the world . |