Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the barracks were demolished , leaving within the defences only the granaries , now enclosed inside their own compound , the headquarters building and the commander 's house . |
| 2 | Earthquakes assisted the destruction and the land silted up so that by the Middle Ages only the capitals of the columns stood above ground and the forum 's name ( Campo Vaccino ) reflected its purpose — grazing land for cattle . |
| 3 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 4 | Hesees only the defects of parliamentary collaboration . |
| 5 | In the far west all the witches of West Cornwall supposedly met at Zennor and re-pledged their Satanic allegiance around the dying embers . |
| 6 | France is in the depths of recession so the Burghers of Calais love this influx of free spending English shoppers . |
| 7 | The pulp , or bagasses , left over from this process is then burnt to produce electricity which at present fuels only the distilleries themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ We do believe in regional government , but a regional government that draws powers from Whitehall so the powers currently exercised by central government are brought to the North and other regions . ’ |
| 9 | In this case only the projections of the eccentric spots are visible . |
| 10 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 11 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 12 | If you think that sounds like the sort of luxury only the likes of Joan Collins would have in her bathroom , you 'd be wrong . |
| 13 | Unlike Mengele , a freelance monster exploiting opportunities only the Nazis could give him , and unlike Teller , so openly fronting for the Pentagon , our anonymous scientist would acknowledge his dreadful error , his responsibility . |
| 14 | It it 's a test from now till next Friday all the conversations we have . |
| 15 | We see there with Good Friday all the words are , they 're negative words are n't they ? |
| 16 | Erm and on a Friday all the beds went out onto the grass outside the wards for the wards to be cleaned |
| 17 | I 'll always maintain that people with glasses know they 've got something wrong with their eyes so the chances are if they 're wearing glasses then they can see properly ! |
| 18 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 19 | He 'd like one with a spare bedroom so the children can come and stop . |
| 20 | Its a strange love affair for the jockeys … they take all the knocks and falls like the pros … but at the end of the race there 's no bounty just the bumps and bruises |
| 21 | There is authority for saying that the courts ( in practice usually the magistrates ) can and should intervene at both of these potential control points . |
| 22 | More than 18 months later the firms have taken the exceptional step of issuing a joint statement of position . |
| 23 | A few months later The Times Africa Correspondent ( W.P. Kirkman ) wrote two long centre-page articles ( 25 and 26 June 1962 ) on the new African leaders which do more than most to illuminate Nkrumah 's position . |
| 24 | A few months later the Revers and their baby daughter set off for San Francisco . |
| 25 | But five months later the peasants were back . |
| 26 | Four months later the Tories see it as an unqualified success , propelling the man who presided over it , Mr Michael Howard , into the political big league . |
| 27 | At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v. |
| 28 | NEARLY 2,000 businesses went bust in the three months following the Tories ' election victory . |
| 29 | Again , this presumption can be rebutted by evidence showing a contrary intention viz. the parties did want to make an enforceable contract , notwithstanding the domestic or social environment . |
| 30 | However , in practice often the micros are not to be found near the chalkface : rather they tend to live on trolleys and inhabit locked cupboards in primary schools , and cluster in specialist departments at secondary and FE levels . |