Example sentences of "[noun] the [noun pl] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Aristophanes ' play The Clouds Strepsiades is debating with Socrates about the causes of thunder , rain and other meteorological events . |
| 2 | Answer guide : Increase the bank column by £350 and increase the profit and loss column by £350 for sales as in this case the earnings process is complete and receipt of money is certain . |
| 3 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 4 | However , in that case the defendants had been aware of the plaintiff 's medical evidence and to avoid possible objections at trial it is good practice to amend to plead any substantial changes to the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 5 | In the present case the plaintiffs have been unable to suggest why the defendant should lose his home as well as his brother by reason of the death of his brother . |
| 6 | As we shall see in the next chapter , their commercial urge to expand was not adequately disciplined by proper costing , though in this particular case the distortions caused were quite small . |
| 7 | In this case the symbols used are the grammatical categories of the words in the corpus . |
| 8 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 9 | But because of the storm the hatches had been battened down and no matter how hard she searched she could not find a way out of the hold . |
| 10 | Much of our daily work was ten years in advance of the official police community involvement programmes and yet our actions were only an extension of those social welfare activities the police have been heavily involved in for generations , but which are never given status as ‘ real police work ’ simply because of the institutional emphasis placed upon summons lists , numbers of arrests , crime detections , and other statistical returns . |
| 11 | They were invited into the classrooms to take part in some of the activities the pupils had been engaged in during the past term . |
| 12 | Although the precise nature of the economic change the railways wrought is still debated , their impact can not be gainsaid . |
| 13 | In both cases the reasons advanced were concerned with the need for co-ordinating planning policies in these urbanised areas ( MLG 1970 : 12 — 13 ) . |
| 14 | Nevertheless the matter is not entirely theoretical , for in a number of cases the courts have been faced with the need to analyse the juridical nature of a shareholder 's interest in order to determine the principles on which it should be valued . |
| 15 | However , despite Lord Morton 's words quoted above , in some cases the courts have been prepared to interpret clauses restrictively even where liability could only arise in negligence . |
| 16 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 17 | What joins the various devices under a common heading is the fact that in all cases the discourses invoked are spoken through by a voice which has little or no inherent identity of its own but is defined as a principle of interrogative conjunction . |
| 18 | In both cases the treaties have been supplemented by General Assembly Resolutions . |
| 19 | In many cases the issues raised are contentious and there is more than one answer possible . |
| 20 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 21 | A major difficulty the divers faced was caused by a lack of valves . |
| 22 | Ever since she had come to Norfolk the skies had been grey , and she suddenly longed for warmth . |
| 23 | For the East Germans the Poles had been objects of contempt for most of Prussian history , and the loss of land to them was an insult that was not to be swallowed , but would instead produce a festering sense of indignity , shame and anger . |
| 24 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 25 | of course our members er of which we 've got a hundred and twenty three thousand , flood the lines into Luton wanted to know what happens they imagined a surplus as being some pot of er big tub of notes that they can dip it and we can dip into , but of course the surpluses have been used basically by British Telecom in particular for funding early retirement schemes er we 're in no way in knowledge whether the money 's every been paid back . |
| 26 | Through circumstances which developed during the sale of tickets for this function the numbers attending were smaller than usual . |
| 27 | As these commodities had to be kept perfectly dry at all times the barges used were of the soundest construction and were always well maintained . |
| 28 | Your application was one of a number which were recommended only in reduced form , by following the committee decision the costs have been raised to those in your original application . |
| 29 | It has not been revealed how much money the Bulgers have been paid for the interview , but the figure is thought to be in the five-figure bracket . |
| 30 | Not by the route the signposts have been urging ever since faraway Loch Carron but by way of Corran Ferry after a protracted series of diversions and deviations . |