Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E knows more about that place than the guv'nor 'imself , ’ he asserted . |
| 2 | Obviously , however , Bristol and West hopes to hear from interested people in advance — if only so it can gauge the likely demand for each property before the auction starts . |
| 3 | ‘ What shall I do to keep my mind off that thought while the day passes ? ’ |
| 4 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 5 | Broadly , the reason for this is that in smaller populations the selection of an extreme value for the sample would have a greater effect on the calculation of any value for that sample if the sample was also small as a ratio of the population . |
| 6 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
| 7 | Some of these worms may also secrete anticoagulant , and small vessels , ruptured in the digestion of the mucosal plug , may continue to bleed for some minutes after the worm has moved to a fresh site . |
| 8 | For some days after the scandal broke , the press could find out nothing about him . |
| 9 | It was a diamond shape , flown as the Flexi-kite for some years before the patent application was made , and it heralded the concept of a lifting surface with two cones which could be controlled as a parachute or kite . |
| 10 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 11 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |
| 12 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 13 | X-rays showed there was no serious damage to the skull , but Dr Volkov had remained unconscious for some time after the door had been finally broken down . |
| 14 | They relaxed , sagging apart , but lay without moving for some time after the car had departed . |
| 15 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 16 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |
| 17 | They are better for this purpose than the Home and End keys because they work even when the typing line containing the cursor is very short . |
| 18 | They will be wholly ineffective for this purpose if the patient is incapable of understanding them , they are not explained to him and there is no good evidence ( apart from the patient 's signature ) that he had that understanding and fully appreciated the significance of signing it . |
| 19 | Please would you let me have a VAT receipt for this payment so the Parish Council can reclaim the VAT paid . |
| 20 | For the next few weeks the male passes food for his entire family through this hole until the female breaks the wall down and leaves the hole to help him collect the increasing quantity of food demanded by the growing chicks . |
| 21 | Bill Beeby , of Boeing Aircraft Co in the United States , in his description of their search for an integrated manufacturing system , claims that they were nearest that goal when the firm was first set up to make sports planes for their wealthy owner . |
| 22 | After this year if the government no longer underwrite losses , will banks be willing to provide overdraft facilities ? |
| 23 | Kay Maskell who has just retired after many years as the Chairman of the Finance Sub-Committee has agreed to become one of our Vice-Presidents . |
| 24 | ‘ We have a divorce law which allows marriages to be broken up after less time than the run of an average HP agreement , ’ Mr Field said . |
| 25 | Feminist liberation is bourgeois and talks about such things as the legalization of abortion . |
| 26 | Many special instruments have been developed to help us to find out about such things as the pressure of air in the lungs and the vocal tract , the flow of air out of the mouth and nose , the opening and closing of the vocal folds and of the soft palate , and the movement of articulators like the lips and the lower jaw . |
| 27 | Let's concentrate on the important , serious issues and spend less time worrying about such matters as the quality of the beer . |
| 28 | Pregnant women are particularly warned about such lakes since the foetus is very sensitive to mercury poisoning . |
| 29 | One unresolved issue is the extent to which price discriminatory practices can be taken as evidence of market dominance , since one view is that the authorities should only be concerned about such practices if the firm has a dominant position . |
| 30 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |