Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four working groups were given the job of providing negotiators with scientific and technical information . |
| 2 | When pecuniary losses are added the outcome of an assessment of the plaintiff 's damage may be that it is worth , say , between £8,000 and £10,500 . |
| 3 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 4 | An analogous effect in linear molecules is called the Renner-Teller effect . |
| 5 | After watching a film of a car accident some subjects were asked the two questions in ( 3 ) . |
| 6 | The six brothers ' direct descendants were called the che gaon ki gor ( six village clan ) and similarly the artisans and their descendants were the twelve village clan , the labourers were the twenty four village clan and right near the bottom of the caste hierarchy came the shoemakers with their clan of ‘ several ’ villages . |
| 7 | A law which regulates the ability of a local authority to display venereal disease posters in public places is given the same weighting as a law which expands the welfare state substantially through the provision of free school education or establishes a free health service . |
| 8 | Forty years Where a term of more than forty years is created the tenant may , after the expiry of twenty-five years of the term , apply to the court for the discharge of any restriction affecting the user of the demised property ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s84(12) ) . |
| 9 | But in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment ex parte Rose Theatre Trust when the Minister decided not to make an order protecting the site of an Elizabethan theatre , a company of interested individuals was denied the right to challenge this decision , even though this meant that no one was in a position to do so . |
| 10 | Despite being the most visited archaeological site in Europe with 1.4 million visitors annually , rising to a probable 2 million if non-ticket buyers are included the Soprintendenza that administers Pompeii only receives around £700,000 ( $1.2 million ) per annum from central government to spend on the fabric of the site . |
| 11 | It is not often that social workers are given the opportunity to work closely with people at the end of their lives . |
| 12 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 13 | In the next few pages are listed the branches of The Society of the Alexander Technique throughout the world , from which you can obtain the names and addresses of teachers in your area . |
| 14 | With that the old man turned away to give orders that the assembled villagers be shown the hospitality of the Hall . |
| 15 | Even if no direct admissions are made the court may be asked to observe the child 's reactions and demeanour during the interview and these may be interpreted by an expert . |
| 16 | IT is unbelievable that in 1970 , during our formative years , only 30 undergraduates were awarded the first general degree of the University , at a ceremony in Pathfoot . |
| 17 | Unless some controls are imposed the centre of Darlington is threatened with becoming a total exclusion zone for anyone over the age of 35 . |
| 18 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 19 | He knew she was angry with him for allowing their daughter to join the hunt , traditionally something only a select few men were allowed the honour of , but she would see his way soon enough . |
| 20 | It was only in 1880 , after fierce quarrels , that English dissenters were given the tight to burial in the parish churchyard by their own pastors . |
| 21 | With the STV they do not , for some voters are allowed the effective use of votes of second or lower preference and some are not . |
| 22 | To these very sizeable territories were added the " Matildine " lands , given to the Roman Church by the Countess Matilda of Tuscany in 1102 . |
| 23 | When only a few records were retrieved the default display would be full . |
| 24 | In the 1890s magistrates were given the power to order corporal punishment as punishment for specific offences . |
| 25 | Now that France and the Low Countries were overrun the Germans were bombing shipping in the North Sea and threatening to invade England on 18 July . |
| 26 | A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured . |
| 27 | Construction of the three remaining dams was given the go-ahead . |
| 28 | From a modest start five years ago when 30,000 tonnes were handled the business has grown to 400,000 tonnes per annum . |
| 29 | How could a sovereign who reigned by the will of the people resist totally such overt manifestations — confirmed as they were by the reports of similar sentiments being expressed the length and breadth of France ? |
| 30 | A pair of identical twins of very similar abilities were taught the same topic by teachers of greatly different experience . |