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

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1 Always put the cleaner first onto a clean , lint-free cloth to stop fluids getting into ventilation slots or between the keys of the keyboard .
2 Superb photographs illustrate the remarkable life-cycles of ferns and their close relatives , and their extraordinary adaptability — for example , ferns growing in impenetrable mangrove swamps or between the boulders of the Mexican desert .
3 If five peaks were set up they could provide the basis for the tentacles of hydra , or for the fingers in the early development of the human hand .
4 6.1 As respects all information as is directly or indirectly communicated to it by another Party ( hereinafter called the supplying Party ) under the terms of this Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Project ( including technical information or otherwise relating in any manner to the business or affairs of such other Party ) the recipient Party hereby undertakes to the supplying Party that it will until five years after Completion or abandonment of the Project treat the same as ( and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the same be kept ) confidential and will not disclose the same to any other person without prior written consent of such other Party in each case except to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in or for the purposes of the exercise of the rights and licences granted to it pursuant to this Agreement .
5 It is certainly true that the individual is more sensitive to particular types of influence at some developmental stages than at others , but to say that tells us little , either about the extent to which the period can be shifted or about the reasons for the increased sensitivity .
6 However , very little is known about the extent of this trade or about the mechanics of the transactions which take place .
7 It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire .
8 He sat at his desk , huddled in his great cloak , oblivious to the cold draughts which came under the door or through the cracks in the wooden shutters on the window .
9 A careful consideration of the nature of virtues , or of the lives of the saints and apostles may help , as will meditation on the Passion and Mary , whose virtues enabled Christ to be born and make manifest the wisdom and goodness of God .
10 This is so notwithstanding any resolution of the creditors ' committee or of the creditors to the contrary ( r 6.148(2) ) .
11 Secondly , is it right that relief should be refused because the court disapproves of the applicant personally or of the motives behind the bringing of the application ?
12 Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read .
13 But Attlee and others believed that Britain could not act without the support of or against the wishes of the United States .
14 Whether these groups work for or against the interests of the company depends to some extent on the type of supervision they get .
15 Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ?
16 And carry it loose into the the cow shed or into the sheds for the out-wintering cattle .
17 The Chamber of the House of Commons was damaged by bombs during the Second World War and when deciding whether it should be rebuilt as it was originally , or along the lines of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa and elsewhere in the Commonwealth ( ’ one representative : one desk ’ ) , Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee , with other senior politicians , plumped for the old ways — and the old ways were those of adversarial politics .
18 I slept in graveyards or along the steps of the churches and woke hollow-eyed and sick with hunger to the oaths of the men-at-arms , the mocking jeers of cheapjacks and mountebanks , the clatter of hooves and the crazy jangle and flurry of hundreds of city bells .
19 They must therefore retain the property to which an infant is entitled till he attains full age , and meanwhile deal with it under the directions of the will or settlement or under the orders of the court .
20 Nor will a network of single-purpose bodies find it easy to co-ordinate services either with one another or with the services of the districts or boroughs .
21 A magistrates ' court may transfer private law proceedings where in the interests of the child they could be dealt with more appropriately in the county court ( APO , art 8 ) .
22 Such a spreading strategy is useful when the price of the middle contract is out of line with the prices of the near and far contracts , and the trader is not able to predict whether the adjustment will be primarily in the price of the middle contract , or in the prices of the near and far contracts .
23 It may , of course , happen that he deliberately holds himself out as a partner for his own private benefit and not in the course of his work or in the interests of the firm .
24 We did n't have time to play on the beach or in the streets with the other kids .
25 One of the most commonplace simplicities in the 1980s was that there were two alternative forms of industrial relations available to employers in Britain : one was based on employee involvement , flexible forms of work organisation , single-union deals or no union representation and the other persisted with multi-union representation , traditional forms of work organisation , strict workplace discipline and offered employees little opportunity for direct participation in their work or in the affairs of the enterprise .
26 or in the leg-feathers of the deafening macaws .
27 Even the half-mortals do n't know — they still think Undry 's lost , or in the hands of the dark powers .
28 He obviously thought her friends would either be dead , or in the hands of the Gestapo .
29 Of course , there was the continual ringing sound of the quarryman chipping away the stone at Tilly Whim or in the bowels of the earth under Cowleaze .
30 If anyone had been there , thought Dalgliesh , there was plenty of opportunity for concealment behind the hunks of concrete or in the crevices of the sandy cliff .
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