Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was two hours too early for dinner and so spent the interval in a cloud of steam with my wet clothes draped around the fire . |
| 2 | In order to find out what the substantive law is , we must still go back to the time when Law and Equity were administered in different courts ; we may still have to picture to ourselves distinct proceedings taken about the same matter in those courts , and work out the result of those separate proceedings . |
| 3 | The urgency which mainstream critics applied to the task of denouncing A Very British Coup was no doubt fuelled by the fact that the film was screened as a three-week serial , hence reviewers were in the unusual position ( for TV critics ) of being able to influence readers as to whether they would watch future episodes . |
| 4 | However remote their political views remained from the rest of the electorate , the " Clyde group " remained as secure in their own area as they had ever been . |
| 5 | Benedict imprisoned her closer , oblivious to her grubby hands caught against the pristine whiteness of his neckcloth . |
| 6 | A woman the same age as their combined ages stepped into the car at Woodford and quickly stepped out again when she saw Lee swinging from the passenger hand-holds , Damon and Kevin sparring on the floor and Chris doing something to a continental ferry advertisement with a red felt-tipped pen . |
| 7 | ‘ Urrah , urrah , urrah ’ : their growling calls carried above the sound of the sea — and all those other bird noises . |
| 8 | It involves a new subdivision of manufacturing processes on an international basis under which multinational corporations based in the UK , Europe , Japan and the US have established manufacturing plants in the Third World to produce parts which are combined in branches of the multinationals in other countries . |
| 9 | The emergence of a new pro-capitalist party in the South from the end of 1985 , the Progressive Democratic Party , might show the extent to which political divisions based on the treaty and within the nationalist component of hegemony may have become problematic , to be partially replaced by an even more explicit concern with increasing the popular wealth and prosperity . |
| 10 | It seems that the Rub' al Khali desert of south-eastern Arabia occupies a structural offshoot of the Persian Gulf in which marine sands accumulated in the later parts of the Tertiary period and have since been reworked by the wind . |
| 11 | Employed workers , who found that they were being compelled to maintain their unemployed relatives out of their meagre wages joined with the unemployed . |
| 12 | Their light beams played around the interior . |
| 13 | Her wet feet burned on the hot stones at the edge and she walked across the grass to the shade where he stood jubilant , beckoning . |
| 14 | Down below rushed the river , its muddy waters swollen by the heavy rain . |
| 15 | Elliot Jacques and Wilfred Brown , in their longitudinal studies associated with the Glazier Metals Company , found that individuals have a felt need to have their role and status clearly defined in ways that are acceptable to them and their colleagues . |
| 16 | Canoeists and swimmers took their chance amongst speedboats towing water skiers and wind surfers bowling along , their multicoloured sails reflected in the deep blue of the water . |
| 17 | MEMBERS of the Lloyd 's insurance market will have capital gains on their premium funds taxed in the same way as those of other corporate insurers the Chancellor said . |
| 18 | Nor dreamed her light words echoed on the ear |
| 19 | Their residential courses held throughout the year for both beginners and advanced students are widely known and popular ; students come from all over the world . |
| 20 | In Figure 1.1 we have represented the holism-individualism range on the vertical axis and the explaining-understanding contrast on the horizontal , with the actors in their social capacities located on the dividing line , where , one might say , structure meets action . |
| 21 | At one station a nice old Burmese woman brought us limes — her old arms scratched by the thorns — she asked no payment , it was her gift of love to this train load of refugees . |
| 22 | Fourthly , the skills and methods which social workers developed during the welfare state era are relevant as never before ( Department of Health and Social Security , 1985 ; Parsloe , 1988 ; Department of Health , 1989 ) : psychosocial assessments , direct work with children , maintaining links , interprofessional collaboration . |
| 23 | Her dark eyes narrowed with the strange squint-eyed intensity which so fascinated Ludens and to which he had drawn Franca 's attention . |
| 24 | I find myself instead picturing Claudia , her dark eyes turned to the sky . |
| 25 | This powerful , victorious Spirit which indwells believers , and can keep their sinful natures nailed upon the cross , is like a seed planted in the soil of the believer 's life . |
| 26 | When the East coast enjoyed its mighty fishing fleets , many of the skippers had their imposing homes built in the tranquillity of Swanland . |
| 27 | While we are on the subject of the amount paid in business rates , can the Minister tell us whether shops whose rates have been assessed on the basis of six-day or even five-and-a-half-day trading will have their rateable values reassessed on the basis of seven-day trading ? |
| 28 | A team of over 100 scientists was working to produce a weapon of almost inconceivable power , ‘ their moral scruples overcome by the fascination of the research and the haunting fear that the Germans were following the same path ’ . |
| 29 | Its mighty talons sliced through the dragon 's scaly hide . |
| 30 | The reinforced darkglass shattered , and she felt warmth around her hand as her durium-laced fingerbones stabbed through the man 's skull . |