Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activities are then decomposed until such time as the related resources ( eg people , time , money , skills etc ) which need to be committed to the procedure can be clarified . |
| 2 | For example , the defences were firmly dated to the reign of Hadrian , although Antonine pottery was found in the rampart , but dismissed with the remarkable statement ‘ the overwhelming pre-Antonine character of the mass of associated pottery suggests the earlier , rather than the later of Dr Oswald 's limiting date for the exceptional sherd ’ , i.e. AD 130 — 50 . |
| 3 | The forms are severely simplified : tubular tree-trunks , heavily stylized masses of foliage and ‘ cubic ’ houses . |
| 4 | Picasso 's landscapes are more incisive and linear , and the solidity of the forms is deliberately emphasized . |
| 5 | Here again most of them are inconveniently faint , and in no cases can the forms be properly seen with binoculars . |
| 6 | By then it looked as if the hats were there to stay . |
| 7 | The first of the pros were already finishing their rounds on the 18th green . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Again , those who preferred the Greeks to the Goths were never vanquished . |
| 10 | Although troupes of Tiller 's dancers eventually appeared in more than twenty-four such shows , it was to mean more than any other Royal Command in that the acts were personally chosen by the King and Queen . |
| 11 | But for the moment these designs remain just that : the experts are still trying to sort out the answers that chickens have given them and , until they do , can not finalise a commercial prototype for improved cages . |
| 12 | It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that the experts are still arguing over something as basic as how a cat purrs . |
| 13 | The radical programmes drawn up by the experts were severely qualified . |
| 14 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 15 | By then , though , the television cameras were in place for the wedding , the cake had been baked , the crowds were already gathering on the pavement and the sense of happy anticipation was almost palpable . |
| 16 | By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier . |
| 17 | The horizons are gradually extended to include playgroup supervisors and classmates . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | The strips are simply nailed and glued to the roof , allowing for an overlap between layers . |
| 20 | After four washes in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , containing 0.05% Tween 20 , the strips were individually incubated in appropriate peroxidase conjugated anti-human IgM , IgG , or IgA or anti mouse IgG and developed . |
| 21 | The strips were continuously superfused with Krebs solution ( 37°C ) at a rate of 1 ml/ min . |
| 22 | The strips were initially placed under 1.0 g resting tension and allowed to equilibrate for at least an hour before the start of experiments . |
| 23 | The loss of confidence in the mid-1970s is usually put down solely to the oil crisis . |
| 24 | Eagleton 's Althusserian phase of the mid-1970s was strongly attacked by a Marxist academic , Kiernan Ryan , who has since taken issue with another Marxist , Alan Sinfield , on the extent to which the great literary works of the past can transcend the reactionary ideologies that produced them . |
| 25 | The clouds are nicely shown , the pebbles are nicely shown . |
| 26 | The icons are generally activated by an on-screen pointer controlled by a mouse or trackball . |
| 27 | For example , the icons are usually addressed by inputs from a mouse rather than a keyboard and many of their operational facilities are controlled by pull-down menus . |
| 28 | The contents of the jiffy bag were n't important but they were genuine , and the solicitors were well known for handling City problems . |
| 29 | The anchors are usually linked by sundry cords and tapes of varying age and wear . |
| 30 | The orangs were gradually forced back into the mountain forests . |