Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer … is not to resign ourselves to our women 's role — in a woman 's place — and demand payment for staying put , but to collectivise childcare , to share the responsibility for bringing up children within the community . |
| 2 | In this chapter , techniques for building up systems of the joint influence of variables have been outlined , using differences in proportions as the measure of strength of effect . |
| 3 | The wheel may be used for the identification of objects , for forming original sentences based on the pictures , and for building up stories around the picture ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 4 | It is about opening up ideas about the range of choices which could and should be available to them . |
| 5 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 6 | Their protest follows that of local Penan tribal people , some 20 of whom were arrested after setting up barricades in the forests nearby . |
| 7 | Eleanor Rathbone firmly believed that the only way to remove a major barrier against equal pay in professions such as teaching would be to take account of the differences in standards of living reflected in the higher costs of bringing up children in the higher income groups . |
| 8 | You know about having t how do they feel in terms of bringing up kids in the flats ? |
| 9 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 10 | This was a time when Haslam learned the subtle art of keeping up appearances despite the fact that the world seemed to be collapsing all around him . |
| 11 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 12 | He told the Centre for Economic Policy Research that what was needed was an in-depth comparison of the costs of cleaning up emissions on the one hand with the economic benefits on the other . |
| 13 | Klein suggests that ‘ The process of splitting off parts of the self and projecting them into objects are thus of vital importance for normal as well as for abnormal object relations . |
| 14 | Without their help , the security forces will have little hope of tracking down militants in the valley . |
| 15 | He reckoned that the islanders would be so devastated by the deaths of their children that they would be incapable of taking up arms against the invaders and , later , would be easily subjugated . |
| 16 | However , it is sprightly compared with the pronouncement on ‘ automatic honours for public servants ’ by Richard Shepherd , the Conservative MP : ‘ It almost has the quality of handing out lollipops to the general satisfaction of the recipients . ’ |
| 17 | You only have to see some of run down estates for the evidence . |
| 18 | Long hours of standing over benches by the lock makers got part of the Black Country known as " Humpshire " . |
| 19 | The idea of endowment paid to a mother ‘ on account of her motherhood and on behalf of each of her children … is ’ , it was asserted , ‘ entirely opposed to the idea of relief of distress or poverty , because it implies a universal national provision and not a means of making up deficiencies in the incomes of particular families ’ . |
| 20 | The assumption is that if such research is successful , then pedagogy is a matter of conforming to the revealed sequence of natural acquisition and of setting up conditions in the classroom which replicate those of its emergence . |
| 21 | His presidency was plunged further into trouble with a series of minor health scares culminating in the humiliation of throwing up sushi over the feet of the Japanese Prime Minister . |
| 22 | At first the winter months were used for training but when the policy of laying up cutters for the winter was discontinued the courses were held throughout the year . |
| 23 | The work consisted of laying out costumes in the appropriate dressing rooms in advance of the required changes , rescuing those from the previous number and returning them to Wardrobe , checking for damage , separating out for laundry . |
| 24 | He is even accused of casting out devils by the power of Satan ( Luke : 11:15 ) . |
| 25 | To date the number of paid up members of the Society is 51 - a satisfactory start - but please do your best to recruit further members . |
| 26 | The amount breaks down as follows : * a criminal fine of $100 million , the highest ever levied against a polluter , set after Exxon agreed to plead guilty to charges of criminal misdemeanour ; * a total of $900 million in civil damages , to be administered by a board of Alaska state and US federal officials , and used for cleaning up operations along the Alaska shoreline over the next decade ; * if further damage from the slick emerges between the years 2002 and 2006 , Exxon will be liable for up to $100 million more . |
| 27 | Without constant inflows of external wealth through territorial acquisitions or through raiding , royal power could be maintained only through granting out bits of the fisc , that is , of royal estates . |
| 28 | De Quincey wrote that habitual opium-taking reawakened the childhood capacity that we all recognize and remember , for conjuring up monsters in the dark . |
| 29 | The threat to employ outside contractors is in line with plans for hiving off parts of the ambulance service sketched out by Mr Clarke during the dispute . |
| 30 | Charged by Bragg with writing up notes on the case , Morton decided that they could equally well be done that night , at home . |