Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the council meeting , Kleinwort Benson and UBS Phillips & Drew objected strongly to the two proposals . |
| 2 | Indeed , his capital city of Aachen ( Aix la Chapelle ) was partly chosen because of its hot springs , where Charles swam daily in the great bath . |
| 3 | I want to begin by going back to an argument that Aristotle put forward in the Ethics , since I think that the point at which his argument breaks down can illuminate the nature of the problem some feminist thinking has faced . |
| 4 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Although Pakistan inched forward in the eight overs following the welcome tea-break , England were pulling the strings . |
| 6 | So it was not until 30 August that Brusilov struck hard at the Austrian right , causing it to collapse and its formations to retreat westward in panic and confusion . |
| 7 | Although Liphook strove hard for the equaliser , they were unable to take advantage of the many opportunities created . |
| 8 | They noted too that Scotland contributed fully to the costs of all network programmes while seeing only 94 per cent of them , and paid a full share for network radio despite patchy reception in some areas . |
| 9 | Schwer saw his unbeaten record slip away on cuts , although Burke fought splendidly on the way to an upset victory . |
| 10 | In 1927 , the year that Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic , Cooks chartered a plane to take fans from New York to Chicago to attend the Tunney-Dempsey boxing match . |
| 11 | It was as they approached the gates that Joe pointed away to the left and towards the hills where a man was walking and he cried excitedly , ‘ There 's Mick ! ’ |
| 12 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 13 | Although Franco seemed well on the way to having Hedilla in his pocket in late October , Falangist support for merging with the Traditionalists was not yet guaranteed . |
| 14 | ‘ Hong Kong People Rule Hong Kong ’ : the slogan propagated by China during the 1982-84 sovereignty negotiations , to encourage popular local support for its demand that Britain withdraw completely from the administration of Hong Kong on 30 June 1997 . |
| 15 | She said the words with such bitterness that Tempy glanced inquisitively from the window . |
| 16 | And then there 's the way that Steve played right on the on-beat , in contrast to the rhythm section , which always fell way back behind the beat — that 's part of the reason it all worked so well . ’ |
| 17 | A report in New Cyclist magazine revealed yesterday that York sits proudly at the top of a 150-city cycle league , but Newcastle should be avoided at all costs . |
| 18 | I suggest that Shakespeare reacted critically against the whole European tradition of the sonnet as a form of impotent adoration or frustrated lament by striking out , like Donne , towards fulfilment . |
| 19 | It relates , too , to the recommendations with the NDG model that CMHTs work closely with the voluntary sector . |
| 20 | The team was the same as for the West Ham game , except Hodge played instead of the injured Speed . |
| 21 | How far East Anglia was typical is hard to say , and the historian must guard against making generalizations from evidence which is geographically limited : certainly the Stonor correspondence suggests that Oxfordshire suffered less from the kind of violence recorded in the Paston Letters ( 17 ; 24 ) . |
| 22 | Overall you can tell that SMA worked hard on the 'cave for this deck . |
| 23 | For example , how should policy makers react if , having been persuaded that the larger part of observed unemployment is Keynesian , they are also persuaded that NAIRU lies well within the range BC in Figure 8.8 ? |
| 24 | Just as he reacted strongly against Richards 's suggestion that The Waste Land had severed poetry from belief , which carried the implication that the poem was a cultural museum , so Eliot campaigned now for the preservation of London 's churches not as museum pieces , but as centres of religion . |
| 25 | Finn looked up angrily and Melanie ran upstairs before the sharp words and blows began . |
| 26 | Weir and Wainwright did well at the line-out and the loose forwards were just as quick and creative as their much more illustrious opponents . |
| 27 | On the 20th of March Katherine and Beatrice dined together at the Closerie des Lilas . |
| 28 | In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime . |
| 29 | Bob and Beryl live just off the beaten tracks |
| 30 | He explained his change of mind by pointing to the danger that if Stockholm went ahead without the Allied socialists , the case for the Allied war effort would be lost by default : |