Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This daily parade assumed for the bagnini something of the significance that the Changing of the Guard has for London 's tourist guides . |
| 2 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 3 | This chapter considers the relationships between the partners themselves during the course of their business . |
| 4 | This clarity , aided by his youth , made him handsome , though there was about the handsomeness something of the coldness of a coin . |
| 5 | This apparently involves sending patients an eyesight test card and then running through the test itself over the telephone . |
| 6 | You can go through the points one at a time . |
| 7 | The Head of Department then went through the objectives one at a time and satisfied the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies that , with different emphases , the objectives were all subsumed in the 3 criteria for the assessment of pupils ' work . |
| 8 | The instructor should distribute Handout 13 , then go through the steps one at a time using the details in the text and asking the trainees to complete exercises where necessary . |
| 9 | If electrons are sent through the slits one at a time , one would expect each to pass through one slit or the other , and so behave just as if the slit it passed through were the only one there — giving a uniform distribution on the screen . |
| 10 | which is useful for taking the heat off the window itself in the Summer . |
| 11 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 12 | At a rave in Stafford 's Bingley Hall last month , Altern-8 launched an offensive by proclaiming rock music dead , flying in an African witch doctor to ‘ cleanse the air of rock ’ with an ancient incantation , and rounding off the ceremony themselves with the sacrifice of a Fender Stratocaster . |
| 13 | People were coming to accept that Nonconformist chapels should look like ‘ churches ’ and that Nonconformist services should be more ‘ dignified ’ and ‘ ecclesiastical ’ ; it was not surprising that people should come to view the nature of the Church itself in a different vein from their forefathers . |
| 14 | ( A Mrs. Furness , for example , ‘ was last night seized with vertigo and other symptoms of congestion of the head which by the immediate application of a dozen leeches was presently relieved … ’ ) . |
| 15 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |
| 16 | Now the advent of the man himself into a classroom caused something of a sensation , even if it was under cover . |
| 17 | My charge against the Government and most of the Conservative Back Bench Members is that the majority of them do not care , and those who do — I include the Minister for Housing and Planning — are too wedded to , too unable to break away from , the principles of the Government who during the past 12 years , have created the crisis . |
| 18 | Do not necessarily accept the doctor 's word for this , you have your own duty to the client and the doctor may not have taken into account the importance of the case itself to the client 's best interest . |
| 19 | Within Protestantism a shift occurred — away from the exegetical principles of the Reformers themselves toward a more legalistic attitude . |
| 20 | … the standard of conduct required from a director in relation to dealings with a shareholder will differ depending upon all the surrounding circumstances and the nature of the responsibility which in a real and practical sense the director has assumed towards the shareholder . |
| 21 | As Pressman reports , Woonerf streets exhibit a stronger social cohesiveness , much brought about by the involvement of the residents themselves in a sophisticated process of planning their own surroundings . |
| 22 | However , the sudden intervention of the princess herself in the speculation about her marriage raised more questions than it answered . |
| 23 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 24 | This development parallels ( not accidentally ) the enormous growth of the TNCs themselves since the 1950s , both in scope and geographical spread . |
| 25 | Assuming that the Court is prepared to make an interim payment , the amount it is empowered to make is : — ‘ such as it thinks just , not exceeding a reasonable proportion of the damages which in the opinion of the Court are likely to be recovered by the pursuer ’ . |
| 26 | But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management . |
| 27 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |
| 28 | You 'll also notice that we put a provision in there of half a million for expansion of packing cos we believe that we may need this erm with the production of the o you for the carry on . |
| 29 | Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent . |
| 30 | between erm oh by the end of the war one in every three dwellings had been demolished . |