Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 2 | And besides , there was soon a property wagon and two more sleeping wagons for the many members of the wealthy company . |
| 3 | A great deal of traffic was involved in moving ammunition and bombs for the many airfields in the vicinity . |
| 4 | It was suggested that a flour-mill for the employment of the paupers should be created , the flour produced to be used for making the bread for the paupers in the workhouse , as well as for the several parishes in the union . |
| 5 | The star of the show was undoubtedly Sue Edwards from Middlesex , who rode nine tests on three different horses , and was not only the winner of the Preliminary and Elementary trophies with two different horses , but also won the 1991/92 points trophy for the most wins during the whole season . |
| 6 | The Phostrogen prize for the most points in the show was shared between Mr. W. Howarth and Mrs. J. Lee . |
| 7 | Even within these areas , there is smaller-scale , shorter-distance commuting for the few jobs in the larger villages and the smaller towns . |
| 8 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 9 | They now compete , not for comparable resources ( ‘ separate but equal ’ as the phrase went ) but for the same resources in the same labour or housing or educational or other markets . |
| 10 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 11 | Often , however , the amount subscribed for a particular class of shares by management is less per share than the amount subscribed for the same shares by the institutions . |
| 12 | He served in the US Army Signals Corps during the latter stages of the First World War before settling in Onawa , Iowa , where he worked as a teacher and ran a sweetshop in his spare time . |
| 13 | The work that followed to finalise the user requirement is hitherto unpublished , and is derived from a series of discussion papers raised during the latter stages of the project . |
| 14 | After a month of continued competition , the pressure was understandably present in more than one camp during the latter stages of the tournament schedules . |
| 15 | post-war instructions from Moscow ( the Comintern had been dissolved in 1943 ) were to maintain the policy of cooperation with democratic forces which had been implemented during the latter stages of the war . |
| 16 | He took part in the attack on Porto Farina , and was advanced to rear-admiral during the latter stages of the expedition . |
| 17 | The Joint Transport Operation ( with Oxfam ) which was formerly located in Desse , capital of the region of Walo in the north of the country , was relocated in Addis Ababba during the latter stages of the civil war . |
| 18 | During the latter years of the war , Italy had undergone a traumatic experience with battles raging up the length of that country , and emerged with their King Victor Emmanuel resigning in favour of his son , Umberto II , and a succession of coalition governments . |
| 19 | The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century . |
| 20 | Analyses of survival distributions of contemporaneous cohorts showed that roots at the northern site consistently lived longer on average than roots born during the same periods at the southern site ( Geham-Mantel test , α =0.05 ) . |
| 21 | Your lower leg should be at the same height as the knee as the latter points to the target . |
| 22 | But the prime minister failed to broaden his alliance as the former Communists of the Democratic party of the Left and the small Republican Party refused to join his administration . |
| 23 | Kulishov does not rule out some complications in the talks with Germany and Hungary caused by relations between the former republics of the USSR . |
| 24 | In spite of the fact that the Russian parliament suspended the agreement on Russian territory , an interdepartmental commission , which includes Russian officials , is still at work in Minsk sorting out claims between the former republics of the USSR . |
| 25 | Between the many breaks in the cloud the rays of a thin evening sun shafted down at an acute angle to spotlight the pastoral scene . |
| 26 | The focus of the project is the social and economic history of Aleppo between the latter years of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and the creation of the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria in 1958 . |
| 27 | Those rules are therefore designed to preclude , in so far as is possible and from the outset , the possibility of a situation arising such as that referred to in article 27(3) , that is to say the non-recognition of a judgment on account of its irreconcilability with a judgment given in a dispute between the same parties in the state in which recognition is sought . |
| 28 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |
| 29 | And with that , the great swan spread its wings and glided gently downward through the many branches of the big tree . |
| 30 | They crashed through their set as if they were in a competition to see who could get through the most songs in the shortest time , sounding like an unrehearsed version of the group Charlie and I had seen in the Nashville . |