Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , as the intraluminal contents may influence motility , it is safer to infer that differences between individuals in motility patterns are causally related to their altered bowel habits if these motility patterns are seen when the intraluminal contants are similar — that is , after bowel evacuation , as opposed to varying from liquid to hard masses . |
| 2 | If two or more crewmen are slain then the remaining crew will be unable to cope , so when it shoots the cannon must miss a whole turn before it can shoot again . |
| 3 | If grammar schools were introduced then the existing comprehensives would suffer . ’ |
| 4 | The dragons were released whereon the red dragon killed the white and eventually took up residence on the Welsh flag . |
| 5 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 6 | The last straw was located about 10 or 15ft from safety , at which handholds seemed to disappear altogether and aching feet were scrunched up the tiniest of ripples . |
| 7 | As messages are passed down the autonomic nervous system , the blood vessels in erectile tissue everywhere — penis , walls of the vagina , ear lobes , nose ( notice the stuffiness ? ) — are engorging . |
| 8 | The system of Elector Counts is established whereby the provincial leaders elect one of their number to be Emperor . |
| 9 | As Anglican church discipline was tightened and as the Oxford Movement spread its influence throughout the clergy the happy-go-lucky attitude of older Broad and Low Churchmen was put on the defensive . |
| 10 | In the main part of the building the paintings are hung on the first and second floors . |
| 11 | The readings were taken on the right arm of the seated subject after a minimum of 10 minutes ' rest . |
| 12 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 13 | The seas swamped their boats , and all three boatcrews perished in the waters , their lifeless bodies being washed ashore the next morning . |
| 14 | What is most apparent is that when chronologies are put forward the resulting data either can not be , or is not used to study early Anglo-Saxon society in any more detail , and even when a pattern appears it is noted as an aside to the central issue . |
| 15 | The EEB declaration makes it clear that European environment groups ‘ believe that when decisions are taken on the respective competence of the Community , Member States and regional and local government in actions to protect the environment , the overriding objective must be to secure the highest quality of life for the Community 's citizens . |
| 16 | But if the controls are interrelated then the 20 cases will be divided into 10 men and 10 women and for each sex the age groups will be specified . |
| 17 | MAJOR-GENERAL Michael Skinner , who has died aged 60 , was Director General , Weapons , from 1986 to 1988 , when many important decisions were taken on the future equipment of the Army . |
| 18 | In Ancient Egypt , pig footprints were considered just the right depth for sowing corn , and at planting time , the farmer would walk behind a pig , dropping seeds in the impressions . |
| 19 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 20 | In functional terms there do seem to be storage facilities relatively near the entry channels through the senses , those for the visual and auditory systems are called respectively the iconic store and the echoic store ( Wickens , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | The older ones are given perhaps the only education they 'll ever receive . |
| 22 | He said a total of 24 dogs had died and despite many samples being taken away the local people had never been given any results . |
| 23 | He obtained the keys of a van and drove to see her and the twins were born later the same day . |