Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This includes ensuring that a proper market and proper information exist for the products that the exchange trades ; and that transactions are properly recorded .
2 Cos if we put sort of ten thousand away the interest would be paying for the fees all the time would n't it ?
3 ‘ It 's difficult for us to understand why everybody wants to talk about the Russians all the time , ’ says ballerina Fiona Chadwick .
4 • What experimental evidence leads us to believe that we possess an internal body clock ? • What do we know about the rhythms that the clock controls .
5 Goin' on about the seats all the time she was .
6 Woolley checked off the names all the way down her spine .
7 Maybe Rocco 's just hitting to the centre of the greens all the time .
8 A good art lesson must stretch the mind and imagination of the children all the time , just as it must stretch your minds and imagination .
9 For many people it is rather demoralising to finish a long way behind the leaders all the time and so pursuit racing is an attempt to provide a handicapping system .
10 Do you stay with the horses all the while u in the flight ?
11 The skills of counselling are concerned with enabling this communication process , whilst at the same time dealing perceptively with the problems that the counsellee faces .
12 They ran through field after field , with the hounds all the time slowly gaining on the fox .
13 He was with the Americans all the time — certainly till after we found the body .
14 She never went on holidays anywhere , she stayed with the nuns all the time .
15 Pipe loops carefully along the railings all the way round , and allow to dry .
16 Under the Tories all the family silver was sold off and we have very little left to show for it . ’
17 It means getting away from the children all the time .
18 In the mornings all the talk was of the babies and their welfare .
19 You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds .
20 In the years 1880–1913 the number of land purchasing agencies and co-operatives associated with the Land Purchase Bank was to rise from about 120 to nearly 300 .
21 The first canals were constructed between 1757 and 1761 in order to transport coal from the mines to the towns and factories ; in the years 1791–7 the canal system expanded rapidly , and by 1815 covered most of England 's transport requirements in the industrial field .
22 Er well only two er and Skerrymor but I was er three year because it was called a rock station or a relieving station was a big island the island of Rhona seven miles long when the sea was n't near the tower at all but er and Skerrymor the sea was battering round the towers all the time .
23 And th , think they 're having a real problem in Birmingham as well the they 're , trying to get rid of them and they 're down the sewers all the time trying to get rid of the bloody things !
24 Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort .
25 The wintry weather can take its toll on the face because it is the only part of the body exposed to the elements all the time .
26 The wind shifts mentioned so far are small and fairly frequent so hopefully you can tack on the headers all the time .
27 ’ People still come up to me on the streets all the time and ask the most personal kind of questions that you 've ever heard in your life , like , ’ How could you do such-and such on screen ? '
28 One person must remain at the nets all the time to deal with the rabbits as they become entangled .
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