Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 2 | He stirred uneasily at the suspicions the steward had provoked . |
| 3 | Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose . |
| 4 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 5 | It was a shrewd thrust , bringing home to the sceptics the Pascalian contrast between the littleness of man , for all his ingenuity , and the immensity of the universe . |
| 6 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 7 | Political prudence and the dangers of a frontal attack on the Church restrained them to the sale of common lands and the abolition of civil entails , ‘ pulling up by the roots the tree which bears such bitter fruits ’ . |
| 8 | Despite a last minute clear up by the travellers the common was still strewn with waste — the leftovers of a twenty thousand strong party . |
| 9 | Interviews will ascertain , for both groups of firms , their clients ( B ) and will then trace back through the clients the former suppliers ( C ) . |
| 10 | The conversion was at first a family secret ; when it leaked out to the neighbours the Murphys fled to Dublin , where William worked in his teens in a boot shop . |
| 11 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 12 | When the Luggage appeared behind him and started to lurch confidently down the steps the customers at the rough wooden tables , as one man , looked suspiciously at their drinks . |
| 13 | I was coming back from the shops the other day when I saw him get out of his car . |
| 14 | Well we go down there for all the permits and things anyway you see , recording there with the documents the P F A. |
| 15 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 16 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 17 | The curriculum , based on the 5–14 Programme , follows on from the experiences the children have had in earlier years . |
| 18 | The Court concluded that the Association 's arguments were directed largely to the benefits the agreement gave the UK market . |
| 19 | In holding that the ban was not ultra vires , Sir Denys Buckley J. made the points that the order-making authority should put clearly before the courts the considerations which led to the making of the order . |
| 20 | As the roots begin to break out of the grains the barley is transferred to a vast hall heated with warm air and turned by large malt shovels . |
| 21 | He took a mapping pen and wrote on to the markers the dates when the killings had occurred . |
| 22 | As soon as the election was completed and announced in the words " St Peter elects Lothar pope " , three doves flew into the place where the cardinals were assembled and when Lothar was singled out from the others the whitest of them settled on his right shoulder . |
| 23 | At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining . |
| 24 | I think , I 'm not going to encourage debate on that I think we 've heard what Kenneth said particularly about the trusts the working done by the trust and would suggest that we ask Granville to take that on board as well and be within the presentations too . |
| 25 | In Stunt v. Bolton a man refused to hand over to the police the keys of a car which was causing an obstruction of the highway . |
| 26 | She got home to Kington Square at last , still grubby , very hungry , quite dispirited and having had to hand over to the police the document which had cost her an unreasonable amount of suffering . |
| 27 | What amazes me , apart from the instant MGM jungle scenery that leaps out of the walls the minute you walk in , the way the carpet has become an over the rainbow poppy field , only it 's rose petals , what amazes me is we do n't run out of things to say . |
| 28 | But by piecing together all these different kinds of information , it should be possible , if only very imperfectly , to bring out of the shadows the central actors in the whole story , the women in the composing rooms . |
| 29 | When national stations broadcast chiefly in the shortwaves the range of different newscasts available is immediately wider ; when people have every expectation that all broadcasts will tell some lies , they use different broadcasts as if they were radio beacons for navigators of truth : knowing the position of each , they can calculate the co-ordinates of reality with an acceptable degree of certainty . |