Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 2 | Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom . |
| 3 | They drove along the empty country roads , then passed through a couple of small , sleepy villages , the soft golden stone of the houses reflecting the warm sunlight . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir David English was not informed of the visit and in consequence had no plans to attend the Ideal Home Exhibition that day , ’ the official statement announced . |
| 5 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 6 | The private sector would remain separate and the public would have the right to be covered by it if they wished — having first paid their taxes to support the general service . |
| 7 | The ideal is to have several simply-administered taxes to support the national exchequer , levied after people have earned their pay or income . |
| 8 | While these authorities restated the general rule attention was focused upon attempts to formulate and analyse the exceptions , especially where rights were accepted as having been bestowed upon a third party . |
| 9 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 10 | It has been reported that the addition of minute amounts of phosphatidylcholines normalised the short nucleation time of bile from patients with cholesterol gall stones while having only a minimal effect on the cholesterol saturation index . |
| 11 | Drains to carry the dirty water underground to the main sewer , septic tank or cesspool . |
| 12 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 13 | Liberal Democrats believe that expanding and utilising to the full scientific and technological talents offers the only chance of improving our performance and reversing the long tale of our relative economic decline . |
| 14 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 15 | Their discussions produced the Linggajati Agreement , as it is called from the hill station where they met ( 12 November ) . |
| 16 | In terms of arguments about the Caucasian Albanians , a people which no longer exists but which in the Middle Ages inhabited the disputed region . |
| 17 | The operation of news values constitutes the second set of pressures . |
| 18 | Below all these strata lay the immemorial peasant base of straight barter and the still-important tax in kind . |
| 19 | Wildlife experts fear the calm weather may return too late to save them . |
| 20 | For some of the work auditory sequences are presented to investigate the question of whether auditory and visual temporal patterns mean the same thing to the infant . |
| 21 | In the 1991 Employee Report , we outlined our plans to penetrate the Middle East market . |
| 22 | Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top . |
| 23 | From early on , Hollywood used British stories and lured British actors , later also directors and technicians , across the Atlantic , while making a mint out of British cinemagoers and developing strategies to drive the local product off the nation 's screens . |
| 24 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 25 | ‘ Compulsive spenders suffer the same urge to go on a binge as compulsive drinkers , eaters or non-eaters , ’ declares Dr Christopher Cook of London 's Middlesex Hospital Psychiatry Unit . |
| 26 | Mr Thomas wished his sons to enjoy the best education he could provide , partly as a means of fulfilling their intellectual potential , but even more as a necessary upward step on the social-economic scale . |
| 27 | Overhead he could now hear the dull roar and crackle of fire , as the hungry flames devoured the old house above him . |
| 28 | To protect the black child we need to develop strategies to enable the white family to become open so that there can be reciprocity between white and black society . |
| 29 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 30 | Up to then Graham , 33 , had been mainly in control and had at times outclassed the 27-year-old Grant . |