Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have continued as prosperous farming villages right through the centuries to the farmers who live in them today . |
| 2 | Because advertising revenue is now critical , a paper or TV channel catering successfully for the views of the poor or the unemployed would soon go bankrupt , whereas those meeting the minority tastes of the wealthy remain financially sound . |
| 3 | This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement . |
| 4 | Matters went awry for the Allies from the start . |
| 5 | The predominant over-view in this Department was that Television held a special kind of mystique ; that writing and producing drama for it demanded special levels of skill which were to be somewhere between the scopes of the Theatre and the Cinema . |
| 6 | We must remember that this collection was put together in late 1955 , when most Jewish thinkers ' minds were somewhere between the atrocities of the Holocaust and the fearfully questionable use of the Bomb . |
| 7 | In this case the request for help falls somewhere between the extremes of the Glasgow dustmen 's strike and straight humanitarian operations such as rescuing people from snowdrifts . |
| 8 | Their venture had been from start to finish " planned by the woollen interests , financed from the profits of that trade and built predominantly for the needs of the woollen industry . " |
| 9 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 10 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 11 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 12 | Follow the track for a short way until a path leads on through the bogs beside the Allt a ‘ Mhuilinn . |
| 13 | So as they continued on through the trees to the fort at Ballingolin , with the blackbirds chittering and the smoke from turf fires coming from the farmhouse inside the castle walls , Gerald Hussey broke the news to his daughter that she would be leaving Ireland . |
| 14 | And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world . |
| 15 | Using a sharp knife , shave a little off the sides of the body to round off the edges slightly . |
| 16 | I mean we 've only got to have a look at the recent events in London went on about the insurances over the bombings over the weekend have n't we ? |
| 17 | This means making decisions very early on about the contents of the whole essay ( e.g. by writing an initial synopsis ) . |
| 18 | I just went on about the frogs in the flowers , and I never thought about his dreams . |
| 19 | Right for the pragmatists in the group , we want to do something practical learn from that . |
| 20 | Other tombstones tell us a little about the inhabitants of the town , and include F. Antigonus Papias , a citizen of Greece and possibly a Christian , who may also have been a merchant . |
| 21 | At eleven o'clock , the demonstrators formed a line in front of the abbey and prepared to parade slowly through the streets of the historic Georgian city . |
| 22 | They moved slowly through the crowds in the streets , glad of the obscuring numbers and the bustle and the noise , and the quivering , suppressed excitement , a thick veil behind which they walked , unnoticed and anonymous , towards the High Cross , and the long , gentle descent to the castle gate . |
| 23 | Away below , a tall figure moved slowly through the trees of the demesne . |
| 24 | The Isles of the North suffered most during the Wars of the Sundering . |
| 25 | I endeavoured to believe that much , if not all of what I felt , was due to the bewildering influence of the gloomy furniture in the room — of the dark and tattered draperies , which , tortured into motion by the breath of a rising tempest , swayed fitfully to and fro upon the walls , and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed . |
| 26 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 27 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 28 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 29 | Beyond the park , in some parts of England such as East Anglia , the bulldozer rams at the old hedges , blots them out to make fields big and vacant enough for the machines of the new ranch-farming and the business-men farmers of five to ten thousand acres . |
| 30 | Under Imperial rule , a number of emperors added their own forum bearing their name ; one forum was not large enough for the needs of the whole city . |