Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 2 | And thank you everyone for the lovely presents for our new home . |
| 3 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 4 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 5 | the sheer weight and ferocity of their charge carries them through the massed ranks of their Moorish adversaries . |
| 6 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 7 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 8 | Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’ |
| 9 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |
| 10 | As a consequence , the changes produced will tell you nothing about the normal functions of that part . |
| 11 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 12 | Finally , Bell draws specific attention to the growth of professional and technical workers and identifies them as the key occupations around which the structure of post-industrial society is organized . |
| 13 | It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine . |
| 14 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 15 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 17 | She lashed the class with scorn and ridicule and punished them for the nasty thoughts in her own mind . |
| 18 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 19 | Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members , to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs . |
| 20 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 21 | For now , Therapy ? are at the start of their first proper American jaunt , glad to take a break from the pressures of Britain and their debut major label release , and swap them for the promotional chores of the States . |
| 22 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 23 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 24 | It 's part of the the I I P I actually picked up , rather irritatingly retrospectively , erm some things from the tech , erm that actually take me through the various stages of I I P . |
| 25 | " I shall never forget " , he said , " the support and help he gave me during the critical months of the revolution in 1917 . |
| 26 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 27 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 28 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 29 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 30 | For someone in the early stages of mastering Coke throat-burn like myself , this is impressive . |