Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inset downlights into the top of the openings to light anything that you might care to place in these openings — a plant perhaps , flowers , an interesting object — and you will instantly dramatize the space . |
| 2 | And as if Ontario was n't pretty enough of a picture , there are the galleries showing everything from the avant-garde to Old Masters . |
| 3 | ‘ We shall not need to use that formation again , ’ Thorfinn said , and saw that the forest was quiet and the scouts had nothing to disturb them before turning to walk to his men . |
| 4 | And The Shamen have plenty of theories . |
| 5 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 6 | The bombardment continued unabated until , at 16.00 , it reached its maximum intensity , inflicting such destruction that the Germans supposed nothing — man , horse , even rodent — could have survived . |
| 7 | It was quite spontaneous , for the Germans instigated nothing although they would sometimes co-operate in an elementary way by allowing wood for goalposts or permitting the construction of a theatre . |
| 8 | When biologists studying these birds added extra shade to some territories , the birds exhibited something that had not been seen in this species before ; trigamy , males with three mates . |
| 9 | Initially , the plans said no-one with a disposable income of more than £42 per week would get advice and assistance . |
| 10 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |
| 11 | However , I wish to stress that the racecourses have nothing to do with this idiotic piece of planning . |
| 12 | These two reports remain the source of almost all the information about the eruption ; the Royal Society in particular went to great lengths to amass every possible scrap of information and even inserted a notice in The Times requesting anyone who had seen or heard anything to come forward . |
| 13 | Let's hope the Crues have one sooner than later . |
| 14 | I noticed , er , I felt three of the groups had somebody centrally who , who was being fed information all the time . |
| 15 | Do the rules permit one to change a club during a round ? ’ |
| 16 | They will need to have the skills to talk someone out of another pair of loopstitch socks or convince a lost soul that a key-ring with a thermometer measuring wind-chill factor is not going to change their lives . |
| 17 | And the kidnappers demanded everything Maurice stole from you . |
| 18 | Mrs Bottomley , 44 , has been dubbed variously ‘ the milkmaid ’ and ‘ golden Virginia ’ , but the epithets do nothing to promote her cleverness and political acumen — she coined the jibe ‘ scaring not caring ’ on Labour 's health pronouncements . |
| 19 | Alex , however , subscribes to the standard conspiracy theory that the authorities undermine anyone investigating these sensitive areas . |
| 20 | The Act enables the authorities to detain anyone ‘ 'reasonably ’ suspected of being involved in the commission , preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism' ( Hewitt , 1982:166 ) for up to 7 days , and to take out exclusion orders banning British and Irish citizens from leaving or entering Great Britain or Northern Ireland on the grounds that they have been , or intend to become , involved in acts of terrorism . |
| 21 | Pakistan doctored the ball in the Texaco Trophy at Lord 's , but the authorities admit nothing . |
| 22 | The waveforms look something like Fig 15 . |
| 23 | The sensors cover everything , wall to ceiling ; they 're amazingly sensitive . |
| 24 | The geomancers led everyone to take their eye from the ball and fix instead on an illusory bubble that burst at about 2am on Friday . |
| 25 | Time was you used to go out to the pictures to see something new , to escape endless reruns of old TV shows . |
| 26 | When the haoles took everything , surfing became a gesture of revolt , a symbolic reassertion of power over superior forces . |
| 27 | The distinction between Spence and Litster is that in Spence the dismissals had nothing to do with any transfer of a business . |
| 28 | The cars parked one behind the other in a row on the road that crossed the green from the Hall to the church . |
| 29 | The general appearance of the cars owed something to the American inter-urban , almost the only example of this type in Britain . |
| 30 | When they exercise , the zeks see nothing but their feet dropping forward on the path . |