Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
| 2 | She ground her teeth , glaring down at the neat stack of notes before her on the desk . |
| 3 | Similarly , secondary education librarians point to the lack of continuity between primary and secondary education , The lack of continuity between the various sectors and the poor transference of skills from one to the other is partly a consequence of lack of co-operation between the different sectors , but also the dilemma of librarians at different levels as to whether they should focus on short-term or long-term information needs . |
| 4 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |
| 5 | ‘ So what we did was to take a couple of months for everybody in the band to write songs , and to rehearse everything . |
| 6 | Clearly , out of sorts with himself in the wet and windy conditions which he hated , he smashed his racquet on the ground on no less than eight occasions . |
| 7 | Put a couple of holes in it for the legs . |
| 8 | The set of changes by which during the last 700 years or so , for example : /ei : / became /i : / in words like see /i : / became/ai : / in words like time / / became / / in words like bone |
| 9 | It increases the mortality of pigs and causes an awful lot of problems for anyone in the pig industry . ’ |
| 10 | It increases the mortality of pigs and causes an awful lot of problems for anyone in the pig industry . ’ |
| 11 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 12 | Some of these dogs will be strays , abandoned by their owners because of difficulties with them in the home . |
| 13 | We were heading for a little cluster of figures round something on the beach . |
| 14 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 15 | It should be noted that if any of these ineffective exclusion clauses are included in an advertisement , the trader responsible will expose himself to the risk of proceedings against him under the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988 ( see paragraph 16 — 37 , below ) . |
| 16 | Sometimes a grammar school and a secondary modern school were located close to one another , even on the same ‘ campus ’ , in order to facilitate the sharing of resources , or the movement of pupils from one to the other . |
| 17 | Well I wo n't be paying for another lot of lessons for you at the drama class David because that 's two weeks in a row you 've been saying you 've not gon na go . |
| 18 | The plants here have a dense but high canopy of leaves over them during the summer ; so , apart from the odd shaft of sunlight , the conditions are overcast but not dark . |
| 19 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
| 20 | ‘ Brother , if you will send it to me I will make lots of drawings for you of the Heike , and whatever you want … . |
| 21 | Of course , like thousands of others around the world , I felt I ‘ knew ’ him from the wireless and his writings on the game ; but the training of binoculars on him in the commentary-box at Lord 's or The Oval was the nearest to physical contact . |
| 22 | We travelled thousands of miles in it over the next two years . |
| 23 | Even so , there was competition for places in it towards the end of her reign , and many of the ageing Chamber officers were trying to bring in their own relatives as their successors . |
| 24 | Malcolm Badenoch , 25 , of High Street , Elgin , had brought in local youths , some still at school , to act as dealers for him in the sale of the drugs at all-night raves , Lord MacLean was told . |
| 25 | Bucharest 's shops are supplying a population deprived for years of everything but the poorest-quality basics . |
| 26 | Then came the puzzle — how can Dunkin' Donuts sell very cheaply the ‘ holes ’ from their doughnuts when , as far as I know , doughnuts are made like rings with nothing in the middle ? |
| 27 | The same air , the same scarlet announcements , the huge sea flecked with sunlight , the same insistent mountain , the same child climbing slowly , the years like rocks above him in the ubiquitous sun . ’ |
| 28 | After a long day filming , our three Busmen went off with notes on everything from the capital of Grand Cayman to the flag of Ougodogoland . |
| 29 | From the very first page , where he both mistranscribes and then mistranslates further the opening of Terce in a Book of Hours , he matches marginal pictures with random words of text beside them , wildly associating words out of context with pictures near them in the margins , apparently grasping the flimsiest of puns and word associations . |
| 30 | Industry was like that in Glasgow , but with disadvantages in everything except the local labour supply . |