Example sentences of "the [noun pl] be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |
| 2 | The seamen are therefore determined that they will have nothing to do with Germans of any description until the Germans have made full reparation for the cruel murders committed and the lives lost on the high seas from submarine action " . |
| 3 | The strips are simply nailed and glued to the roof , allowing for an overlap between layers . |
| 4 | It is ‘ only rarely ’ , he says , that the accounts are fully completed when the auditors arrive . |
| 5 | The programmes are now registered as providing learning support for NVQs at level 3 ( the Certificate ) and level 4 ( the Diploma ) which means that any students paying their own fees should not be required to pay the 25 per centincome tax component on either the HCIMA assessment fees or the college fees . |
| 6 | Some of the old skill is perpetuated on the island as a cottage industry but the patterns are now used and often machine-knitted by mainland manufacturers . |
| 7 | For this is not an isolated incidence of confusion , though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised . |
| 8 | What is absolutely essential is that the integrity of each of the religions are properly preserved when they are taught . |
| 9 | However , it is noteworthy that even as late as the nineteenth century , the courts were still discussing whether , in the case of a young girl , there was penetration sufficient to constitute rape where the hymen remained intact . |
| 10 | In more recent times and in a case which did not strictly involve an employee , Lord Diplock said that the real concern of the courts was simply to ask whether the party with the greater bargaining power had exacted an unfairly onerous benefit ( Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 616 ) . |
| 11 | A fair proportion of the ducks were obviously hit but carried on and got to a point where the hunters could not pick them up , so a lot of those animals died slowly and in a great deal of pain . |
| 12 | The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars . |
| 13 | The houses were widely spread and the little road connecting them went nowhere , dwindling finally into the maquis . |
| 14 | The houses were meticulously painted and rose on ten-foot stilts above the ground . |
| 15 | the the railings were always painted and all the houses were beautifully kept and And now mm . |
| 16 | the the railings were always painted and all the houses were beautifully kept and And now mm . |
| 17 | At one stage , the prison guards went on strike , claiming the prisoners were better armed than them . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend is right to raise those issues and to seek to be satisfied that the proposals are properly examined and fully justified . |
| 19 | The proposals were heavily criticised and eventually , as a Bill legislating for the changes went through the House of Commons , the government bowed to their own back-benchers and produced an amendment introducing a total reorganisation ( Maclure 1988 : 109 ) . |
| 20 | The proposals were widely regarded as unrealistic , with adverse criticism ( at varying strengths ) from the Law Society , the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Aid , NACAB , the Legal Action Group and others . |
| 21 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 22 | If the keywords are ever removed and re-entered , they must have the same attributes as before . |
| 23 | In the Ephemeroptera and certain Lepidoptera and Diptera the mouthparts are greatly reduced or non-functional . |
| 24 | The rules were well defined and clear-cut . |
| 25 | As he had always maintained good relations with a number of Swiss wholesalers , the products were well known and well received there . |
| 26 | The situation could have been avoided had the teeth been regularly checked and rasped . |
| 27 | If needed , the teeth are then rasped as in photo seven . |
| 28 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 29 | She was then taken to the police interview-rooms in Chaykovskovo Avenue , the handcuffs were finally removed and then she was left alone . |
| 30 | The dividing line between the pro-cases and the contra-cases is so blurred and ill defined that you might as well toss a coin to decide it . |