Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that the district officer became increasingly isolated from the activities that often had the greatest impact on — and the greatest importance for — his district . |
| 2 | To avoid confusion of terms , I prefer to refer to the activities as either projected or ‘ non-projected ’ . |
| 3 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 4 | She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column . |
| 5 | PC May did little but keep back the crowds and briefly interview Mrs Holt and George Grimsdale . |
| 6 | It neatly sidesteps the whole process of undoing and pouring spray by allowing operators to puncture the cans and then let the spray be rinsed straight into the sprayer . |
| 7 | His original partner had been killed in a shoot-out four years earlier but instead of taking on a new partner Mauer now worked with the rookies , showing them the ropes and generally helping them to settle into the daily routine at the Mozartstrasse precinct as quickly as possible after their graduation from the Police Academy in Vienna . |
| 8 | Yet at the time , he admits , he saw it merely as a way to travel , learn the ropes and then set up in business on his own account . |
| 9 | Wigglesworth has remained calm , coped with the aggravations and resolutely has soldiered through the work , saying only that what he ca n't bear is orchestral apathy . |
| 10 | Innovative only in using cantilevers for the galleries and hence abolishing intrusive columns , he was uniquely pragmatic in his architectural and technical responses to the commercial manager 's brief , which was to seat ever-larger audiences on ever-tighter city-centre sites . |
| 11 | SAS the sentences which show the meanings and therefore reveal if it is a positive or negative statement . |
| 12 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 13 | For the most part , what is good for the business will also be good for the shareholders and so speaking of a duty to benefit the business will often be accurate enough . |
| 14 | Broussac and Capote refused to read the signs and so made their most dreadful mistake . |
| 15 | Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today . |
| 16 | In response to a motion by the clinics , US District Judge Patrick F. Kelly , a liberal Democrat , declared the blockades illegal and , on July 23 , issued an injunction prohibiting Operation Rescue from blocking access to the clinics and physically harassing staff and patients , or encouraging others to do so . |
| 17 | The residence time of the instilled drug can be increased by mimicking the interactions that normally occur between the mucoid component of the tear film and the corneal surface . |
| 18 | There is , of course , nothing wrong with trying to look your best , but for the born-again Weldon to refuse to see anyone unless she spent half the day in the hairdressers and then proclaim that she 's only doing it to further her career ( oh , please ) smacks of hypocrisy of the very highest order . |
| 19 | He outlines a plan for coping with the conflicts that often arise in the family during the teenage years . |
| 20 | Animal life began with the invertebrates and then ascended through the sequence of vertebrate classes in the order : fish , reptiles and mammals . |
| 21 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 22 | At much the same time , however , workers on British Rail successfully defended their procedures in the courts and subsequently went on to conduct a very effective strike from which they emerged victorious . |
| 23 | The first crew removed the bodies of three of the airmen , but Raymond removed the body of the navigator , P/O McFarlane and took from him , his identity papers and personal papers which he concealed from the Germans and later passed to the French Resistance . |
| 24 | He also had time to record his radio shows and to think about the scripts that still mounted up in Peter Eade 's office . |
| 25 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 26 | I said about to see him and I says no , he says I should of kept the houses and just done the lot . |
| 27 | Young Sitwell visited Zborowski in his apartment and suggested that Zbo should help to choose and supervise the shipping of all the canvases and then travel to London to help in the hanging and selling of the pictures . |
| 28 | Humankind , to summarise , has been moving shoddywards since about 480 BC , when Confucius , Buddha , the Second Isaiah and Pythagoras died : to be succeeded , sages of wisdom and toleration that they were , by a return to superstition not unlike the reactions that tragically followed the Enlightenment or Victorian rationalism . |
| 29 | In the films , Col James Braddock ( Chuck Norris ) or John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone ) disobey orders but succeed in both rescuing the prisoners and single-handedly wiping out hordes of Vietnamese and Russians . |
| 30 | But the government will not talk to local people about the projects nor openly discuss their criticisms . |