Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 2 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 3 | Exploring Hidden Processes : what goes on in the heads of pupils doing simple addition calculations ? |
| 4 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 5 | During this period of numbness , people are perfectly able to carry on with the practicalities of living . |
| 6 | I 'm not going to go on to the things of the brain because we are going to do them further down the list . |
| 7 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |
| 8 | Callaghan stood , hanging on to the rags of his self-respect . |
| 9 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 10 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 11 | However we feel that it is important that each type of service debates the issues fully , in order to reach a realistic agreed policy , which also fits in with the policies of other local services . |
| 12 | I look forward especially to a future opportunity to develop his views on the desirability of keeping national insurance contributions as low as possible and of working out exactly how that fits in with the policies of some of his right hon. and hon. Friends , but that is for another occasion , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 13 | This winsome description fits in with the descriptions of the messianic age in the book of Isaiah , with the wolf lying down with the lamb , the lion and the ox eating straw together , and the little child playing happily and fearlessly with them and even putting its little hand unhurt into the hole of the poisonous viper . |
| 14 | All of which fits in with the differences of stomach contents with which we began . |
| 15 | We follow our own way , the way which fits in with the conditions of our time and our country . ’ |
| 16 | For now , 16 years later , and with two children aged seven and nine , she is running , from her Croydon home , a thriving sole practice that fits in with the demands of a young family . |
| 17 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 18 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 19 | The personal estate was distributed in accordance with rules laid down by the Statutes of Distribution of Charles II 's and James II's reigns . |
| 20 | They were quite intimidating to a poor Waaf struggling along in the teeth of a gale , on a bike in a skirt . |
| 21 | Opposite was the site of the Royal Palace lived in by the kings of Bohemia from the Hussite Wars in 1419 , until King Vladislav reasserting the rights of kingship in 1484 , returned to the castle . |
| 22 | Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth . |
| 23 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 24 | Steps led down to the banks of the river , and from the water 's edge , the ruins of the castle dominated the skyline . |
| 25 | Tiny fields , green and white where the snow was melting again , led down to the outskirts of the town . |
| 26 | At dawn on the morning of his twelfth birthday — in the official court annals his thirteenth , for they accorded with ancient Han tradition in calling the day of the child 's birth its first ‘ birth day ’ — Li Yuan was woken by his father and , when he was dressed in the proper clothes , led down to the stables of the Tongjiang estate . |
| 27 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 28 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 29 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 30 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |