Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUPERCHUNK — On The Mouth ( City Slang ) : Superchunk check in somewhere between the Pixies and the Buzzcocks with a bit of grunge topping . |
| 2 | Somewhere between the Mongols and the present day the lands to the north of the Black Sea acquired the name Ukraina , which means ‘ at the border ’ . |
| 3 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 4 | When you were talking earlier on about the bombs and the detonator coming in , where were they stored , at the docks or were they |
| 5 | ‘ He was aware that Oz had to be diverse ’ , observes David Widgery , ‘ and that there was an interesting debate going on between the hippies and the politicos . |
| 6 | Perhaps there was something not quite right about the files and the ledgers . |
| 7 | When Kent played Surrey in 1890 a fine spread was laid on for the gentlemen but the professionals ‘ were left to shift for themselves , and thought themselves lucky to get a bit of bread and cheese ’ . |
| 8 | In a sense the music existed rather for the participants than the hearers ; thus they wished only to be helped , or nudged , not commanded , when in danger of error . |
| 9 | But it is not only through the sacraments that the Spirit assures us we belong to Christ . |
| 10 | And VERDI , known only for the Operas and the Requiem : how much non-operatic music did he write ? |
| 11 | ‘ It 's only for the players and the managers . |
| 12 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 13 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 14 | In between the Oaks and the Elms darted the Silver Birches , slender and frivolous-looking , with wild , shining white hair that streamed out behind them and mischievous features and trailing garments that might have been some kind of cloth , but might as easily have been simply their pale leaves . |
| 15 | In between the ladies and the gents ( matches I mean ) we were ushered to private rooms , where , beneath striped awnings , we were right royally entertained to a distinguished tea . |
| 16 | The Act made several other changes in the hope of reducing the friction between counties and districts , but the difficulties remain — especially between the counties and the districts based on former county boroughs ( Alexander 1982a:55 — 7 ; 1982b:67 — 8 ) . |
| 17 | The USA had moved to send out the invitations only after the Israelis and the Arabs had failed to agree on a time and venue . |
| 18 | It had n't lost one , there was no eye socket on one side of its head , so after the photos and the corny jokes about ’ one eye and goes by the name of lucky ’ back into the water and off she swam . |
| 19 | Everything had associations — Dorothy 's , Edward 's , given by so-and-so , bought on a particular holiday , left behind by relative or friend ; Helen saw an insistent kaleidoscope of references , shimmering tiresomely behind the garments and the implements , as ineradicable as the blackberry stains on a sleeve or the ingrained mud on everything . |
| 20 | I enquired deeper into the Teachings and the more interested and enlightened I became . |
| 21 | And that would tie in with the markings and the holes … |
| 22 | and they 're coming in with the colds and the shivers and not feeling very well . |
| 23 | On 7th July , a week after taking office , Fitzroy was pressed by Tite to adhere to Manners ' promise to exhibit Scott 's new design for the Foreign Office along with the tenders and the prize-winning schemes from the competition . |
| 24 | Newby ( 1979 , p. 170 ) suggests that , in fact , ‘ what are demanded are pet farm workers who cause no trouble but who form part of the landscape along with the fields and the trees ’ . |
| 25 | What are demanded are pet farm workers who cause no trouble but who form part of the landscape along with the fields and the trees . |
| 26 | Under the terms of the Honiara accord the rebels were given immunity from prosecution , together with the promises that the government would remove its blockade and would not attempt to re-establish its troops upon the island by force . |
| 27 | They walked for miles on the hilltops in the strong clean wind , alone with the birds and the sheep . |
| 28 | In fact , Shane ‘ Patrick Number Six ’ MacGowan and Shaun used to be in a group together at school long before The Pogues and the Mondays were formed . |
| 29 | Loss of voice and dry hoarse bark , especially in the mornings and the evenings , worse ( < ) cold and dry winds , worse ( < ) uncovering . |
| 30 | Angus District in the Tayside Region is an area of general population loss especially in the glens and the highlands , but some pressure for commuter housing exists in the south near Dundee . |