Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the many visits I paid in the course of promoting these activities I again found the kind of awareness of what was new in literature in places I had least expected ; and when in the autumn of that year The Idea of a Christian Society was published , it was much more successful than Eliot hoped . |
| 2 | Just this , tidying up about ten minutes I always fill the house up with junk ! |
| 3 | As I notice various strategies I frequently draw the class together and encourage them to share ideas . |
| 4 | By pointing to my ears and making signs I eventually elicit the response from the projectionist , ‘ I 'll turn it down when I 've had my tea . ’ |
| 5 | In some of these early Sonatas I even find the fortepiano to be of advantage , particularly in the first movement of Op. 7 where quick passages should come down like hail : the action is lighter , and the incisiveness of fast forte notes much bigger . |
| 6 | The only herds of the animals which now inhabit the area are derived from animals that have been successfully reintroduced since the late 1930s . |
| 7 | He built the famous shark sculpture sticking out of Bill Heine 's house at Headington in Oxford , and also the legs which once adourned the front of Mr Heine 's Oxford cinema , Not the Moulin Rouge , but the lease ran out and the famous legs had to go . |
| 8 | Methods which expressly reflect the term structure of interest rates or the market value of liabilities were rejected mainly on grounds of complexity . |
| 9 | There are sundry procedural steps which immediately follow the deposit of the order , and a number which in fact precede it ( for example , the local authority resolution under the 1973 Act and the deposit of the plans I have just mentioned ) . |
| 10 | The Thistle Collection offers independent sample units which strongly brand the name Stoddard Templeton . |
| 11 | Apple Computer ( UK ) have also assisted in this work by providing laboratory Macintosh computers which now form the Apple Mapping Centre at Birkbeck College . |
| 12 | After extensive conservation and repair work is completed , the Palace will house a rich series of displays showing how its apartments were used by the Stewart monarchs and their households , and a special display will be devoted to the carved wooden Stirling Heads which once decorated the ceiling of the King 's Presence Chamber . |
| 13 | In giving his provisional ‘ No ’ , Mr Patten said : ‘ Only if Hampshire County Council and the districts address the issue of distribution ( of new houses ) together , and take account of opinion at the local level , are we likely to reach solutions which both meet the housing requirement and satisfy local environmental concerns . ’ |
| 14 | building on LASMO 's strengths by investment in opportunities which best use the Group 's skills and expertise , and which are commensurate with management and financial capabilities ; |
| 15 | There were a couple of oriental rugs on the tiled floor , old maps , comfortable armchairs and sofas , flower vases which tactfully avoided the awfulness of Italian ceramics . |
| 16 | Kenneth Williams resorted to so many different voices which sometimes gave the impression that he was n't always sure himself which one was going to come out . |
| 17 | He possessed a little book of private prayers , with an image of himself kneeling before Christ on the cross captioned with a prayer that Christ " absolve my wounds for me " — a reference to sins which also likened the king 's sufferings to Christ 's . |
| 18 | The Female Genitalia consist typically of three pairs of valves which collectively form the ovipositor or egg-laying organ . |
| 19 | The other teenagers he meets there are mainly criminals — thieves , prostitutes and drug pedlars — and most of them are members of the infamous teenage gangs which sometimes turn the city into a battleground . |
| 20 | Last year three hundred and sixty pupils were injured from three thousand schools who regularly play the game . |
| 21 | It occurred to me that there might be other readers who also ran the program and were confused with the results they obtained . |
| 22 | Okay , maybe I should know all this by now , but I do n't and I bet there are a lot of new readers who also read the mag and in many of the reviews there comes a point where they say to themselves , ‘ what 's one of them ? ’ |
| 23 | The economic seers who regularly provide The Economist with forecasts for the 13 big industrial economies ( published once a month on our economic and financial indicator pages ) are not allowed that luxury . |
| 24 | On Friday the Law Lords in Edinburgh refused a Timex company management application for a ban on meetings taking place near the factory gates — interpreted by the union as paving the way for a show of force which will test the nerve of the company and its new recruits who daily run the gauntlet of jeering pickets and supporters . |
| 25 | Tory backbenchers who never liked the duopoly solution are determined to get the Energy department to unpick its handiwork , either by making National Power and PowerGen , more evenly sized companies or insisting that one or more new generating firms should be allowed to compete in the British market . |
| 26 | Companies like Carlton should be allowed to compete fairly with foreigners who already had the freedom to buy British TV companies , Green said . |
| 27 | In other words you essentially had the choice on the spot of saying , ‘ Yes , I certainly did it , and here 's my fiver or whatever it is , ’ or ‘ No I do n't agree with you and I would like to go through the proper judicial procedures . ’ |
| 28 | When work starts on the offices the car park will be the first area completed to minimise disruption to drivers who regularly use the car park . |
| 29 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 30 | Cathy Panton-Lewis led the three Scots who all made the cut . |