Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was in 1976 , a black year for British sprinting when no one was selected for the 100 metres at the Montreal Olympics . |
| 2 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 3 | There is a much appreciated personal escort for the 100 yards to the hotel , for the price of a handful of Marlboro . |
| 4 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 5 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 6 | Even as a match for the Tatar warriors of the Crimea , who were similarly equipped , their value declined when in the 1630s and 1640s a strong line of fortifications was built in the south . |
| 7 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 8 | It was tempting to think that he might live down there for ever , occasionally emerging to dodge through the empty quiet streets ; watching for the armed patrols of the faceless men in black . |
| 9 | The 53-year-old seating — installed when the school was built in 1938 had done a sterling job for the armed forces during the war and pupils alike over the year . |
| 10 | After the Egyptian leader , Sadat , granted the United States rights to use certain of Egyptian military facilities at the beginning of the 1980s , notably at Ras Banas on the Red Sea , Soviet writers described his ‘ preparedness to allow military bases for the armed forces of the United States of America on his territory ’ as being ‘ in violation of the basic principles of the Non-Aligned Movement ’ . |
| 11 | It would be truer to say that the regime which enters the war is usually discredited at the war 's end , probably because of its supposed lack of adequate provision for the armed forces in the final pre-war years . |
| 12 | By the early twentieth century this was undoubtedly less of a calculative relationship than Michael Anderson has described for the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus . |
| 14 | The bass clef is used for the lower parts of the compass , the tenor for the higher . |
| 15 | Stone or marble was used for the lower parts of the walls , the upper being of sun-dried brick and timber . |
| 16 | With the titans of 1945 gone , the stumbling old guard of the Conservative Party finally tripped up : it was the chance for the lower orders of the middle classes to bite back . |
| 17 | As the numbers grow , it is to be hoped that the voluntary organisations will be pivotal in local planning for the specific needs of the very old in these minorities , both in terms of actual provision and also by drawing the attention of the statutory services to particular needs and problems . |
| 18 | We are the people that God has equipped , for this time in history , in our city and neighbourhood , for the specific needs of the people around us . |
| 19 | Of all the changes in the last two generations , only the great reservoirs of water for the industrial cities of the North and Midlands have added anything to the scene that one can contemplate without pain . |
| 20 | The town itself is 8 miles from Manchester and is convenient for the industrial centres of the Mersey . |
| 21 | An agreement between two or more competing manufacturers whose combined market share exceeds 20 per cent of the market for the appropriate products in the EC or a substantial part of it would not however be exempted under the 1985 block exemption ( though it might benefit from an individual exemption ) . |
| 22 | And the cost of admission for the better seats in the house — £30 and £23 . |
| 23 | Malc was taking first watch with the kids and was in no hurry to leave the cosy guarded fireside for the icy wastes of the bathroom . |
| 24 | Does the Oxford Forestry Institute have a programme of education for the ordinary members of the public to enable them to have this vision of their assets . |
| 25 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 26 | I write to ask your readers for nominations for the Catholic Women of the Year . |
| 27 | The Faculty also houses the internationally famous Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities . |
| 28 | He was not expected at Bramshill until after luncheon and had planned to take his time over the journey to north Hampshire , visiting churches at Sherborne St John and Winchfield and lunching at a pub near Stratfield Saye before arriving at Bramshill in time for the usual courtesies with the Commandant before his two-thirty lecture . |
| 29 | The pendulum swings from right to left , and from left to right , each side overcompensating for the perceived aberrations of the other . |
| 30 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |