Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 2 | It is common ground that Norwich and Winchester carry on ‘ investment business ’ by reason of their engagement in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Act : section 1(2) . |
| 3 | Investment business is defined in paragraph 1(2) of FSA as meaning the business of engaging in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 of FSA ( ‘ Investment Business ’ ) and which are not specifically excluded by Part III of Schedule 1 ( ‘ Excluded Activities ’ ) . |
| 4 | A point worth noting is that when the State of Tennessee issued the order to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School , the entire assets of the school were sold at public auction , including the land , buildings , library , stock etc , and having learned this savage lesson from experience , the land and buildings on which the new Highlander Research and Education Center is now located are owned by a separate Trust which is completely distinct from Highlander , and is now answerable for any of the activities which take place there . |
| 5 | This is the language component : it provides the activities which help participants to understand the business situation as presented through the Information File , the Video , and the Audio Cassette and to develop the skills necessary to perform the assignment . |
| 6 | It is unfortunate that the activities which took place in the buildings can rarely be determined . |
| 7 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |
| 8 | The teacher is the initiator of many of the activities which lead towards number . |
| 9 | The activities which lead most directly to fluency , accuracy and comprehension are : listening , mimicking , drilling , and communicating , and any daily programme you follow should contain these four ingredients . |
| 10 | The activities which occur inside hospital and are taken so much for granted by staff can be bewilderingly strange to the patients . |
| 11 | The activities which seem most obviously to have their point in themselves are what we regard as typically leisure activities — art , playing games , joking . |
| 12 | These consist of all the activities which look good in the brochure but no one ever actually does , like windsurfing ( on a pond ) , clay-pigeon shooting ( which costs 20 quid ) or canoeing ( on a pond ) , . |
| 13 | The whole of the school community feels positive about the involvement of partners and the activities which have been introduced or enhanced through their existence . |
| 14 | This implicitly derogatory attitude to women is linked both to an overmonolithic account of male power , and to a failure to give much attention to the ways in which women have , in fact , often spent much of their lives , and to the activities which have been particularly theirs ( such as the rearing of children , for example ) . |
| 15 | Millett basically dismisses the activities which have tended to dominate women 's lives as ‘ infantilising ’ , because they restrict women to the level , she argues , of the merely biological , and do not allow them to enter upon the ‘ fully human ’ activities which have been the province of men . |
| 16 | In this process of revealing and sharing the head must manage the activities which add up to accountability . |
| 17 | ‘ College men ’ or ‘ academics ’ are considered to be potentially dangerous and polluting because of their limited understanding of the ‘ polis 's ’ real world ; for they never stay long enough to experience the depth and complexities of the activities which lend him his ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 18 | The evening resumes in the bar have some merit in linking in the activities we do not see on film but had an embarrassing ‘ bar bore ’ quality . |
| 19 | While the major policy-making and orientation roles rested with the members of the Council and its multiplicity of committees , the search for promotional roles in association with the institutions was inevitably a key part of the activities we have seen the CNAA 's officers playing . |
| 20 | One of the activities we have great hopes for is our private appeal which will run alongside our public fundraising . |
| 21 | Teaching needs to be discussed in a much more rounded and comprehensive way , with far less emphasis on surface aspects like display and resources ; far more emphasis should be placed on the character of the minute-to-minute encounters which children have with teachers and each other , on the precise nature and purposes of the tasks they are given and The activities they undertake , and on the relationship of these and other aspects of the practice of teaching to learning . |
| 22 | Agencies ' reports will thus provide information on both the financial and operational performance of the activities they cover at an earlier stage than is possible in departmental reports . |
| 23 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 24 | It was only the fact that , as Dorothy said , they believed that ‘ wealth entails social responsibility ’ , that made the activities they funded the target of six decades of jeers and sneers . |
| 25 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 26 | This analyses the kind of decisions to be made in an organisation , and the activities they affect . |
| 27 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 28 | None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement . |
| 29 | Charles had chosen to stay in Scotland because it was the perfect time of year for all the activities he enjoyed there . |
| 30 | Her husband , who had been so attentive in the sunshine , was back on home territory , in the place he loved best on earth , surrounded by the people and the activities he loved most . |