Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 2 | In Paradise Street , in particular , weavers ' workshops can be seen on the top storeys of brick houses built early in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 4 | Tables listing 60 endowment companies published in the periodical Planned Savings show that the top performers for endowment policies paying out at the end of 1990 could do anything up to twice as well as companies at the bottom of the table . |
| 5 | To make the railings , press halved cocktail sticks point down into the icing at 2cm ( ¾inch ) intervals all the way round the front edge of the deck — about eighteen in all . |
| 6 | An inexpensive sweet Muscat which is from the Mediterranean coast of Spain , boasting sultana and honey notes tagged on to the familiar medley of citrus fruits . |
| 7 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | However , the MacSharry proposals look only in the most narrow , blinkered way for solutions . |
| 9 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |
| 10 | Thus significant fractionation of O isotopes occurs only at the surface of the Earth . |
| 11 | Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs , adding to a vicious circle of violence . |
| 12 | In its first year of rail operations based solely on the seven-mile Paignton to Kingswear line , these figures can only be regarded as poor . |
| 13 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 14 | The theorems indicate that the results to be expected from bargaining sessions depend heavily on the institutions which govern the manner in which the bargaining takes place . |
| 15 | people who were not regular paper readers relied more on television , while Guardian readers relied more on the press ; but a plurality of every other paper 's readers said they found press and television equally useful . |
| 16 | The Hudson 's Bay Company went on trading at its posts on the shore of the Bay , and did rather well for its shareholders , but French fur traders moved out beyond the Great Lakes and by the 1740s La Verendrye had led them to places well west of the Bay . |
| 17 | Thin silk cords and silver chains hung down from the nets , which Apanage adjusting by pulling and tweaking them . |
| 18 | ‘ What you got there then , boys ? ’ he shouted as he tight rope walked over a strip of rock strata showing just above the mud of the trough . |
| 19 | The frozen lakes and surrounding snow peaks gleamed ethereally in the wan light of a crescent moon and a starspangled sky . |
| 20 | Whilst it is true that parole was advocated in Crime — a challenge to us all , it is true also that in the consensual politics of the day party study groups drew freely upon the available sources of expertise and received wisdom : the penal services themselves , the legal and academic communities , penal reform and other related interest groups , and published material from official or academic sources . |
| 21 | The jobs questions can also be tackled from the other end : by negotiating more flexibility over the short term contracts provided both by the university and by outside research sponsorships . |
| 22 | permission from the Association of Northern Ireland Car Clubs to opt out of the NI championship for one year only , but they have agreed and so will be running the event for vintage , historic and class cars only , ’ says William Heaney of the TSCC . |
| 23 | But how do our actual eating patterns measure up to the ideal ? |
| 24 | Fragments of moss and algae that land on snow surfaces survive well in the moist environment , and may settle through the remaining snow to colonize the ground beneath . |
| 25 | San Jose-based the Complete PC Inc is to be acquired by Boca Research Inc , Boca Raton , Florida : the Complete PC , a privately held company , develops , manufactures and markets facsimile modem and voice messaging products ; terms were not disclosed ; Boca Research recently raised some $13.6m from its initial public offering and designs , manufactures , and markets worldwide board-level enhancement products directed primarily for the MS-DOS micro market . |
| 26 | Royal Scottish offers a range of investment plans linked directly to the stock market . |
| 27 | Along the western edge of the valley were tumbling glaciers and high rock ramparts sweeping up from the great moraines and scree slopes to culminate in lofty , snowcapped summits . |
| 28 | A boom was now built across the River Foyle which connected it , via Lough Foyle , with the open sea , and the 30,000 citizens began a long ordeal by privation and disease , in which many thousands died , while enemy bombs plunged down upon the town . |
| 29 | Its omnifont recognition algorithms teamed up with the use of the dictionary have given us a recognition rate we 'd estimate at between 98% and 99% , and all without having to teach the program what any letters are , which we consider to be very good . |
| 30 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |