Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [coord] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her charms increased every day , not only in my eye but in the eyes of all who beheld her , for my mother took the greatest delight in her waiting maid . |
| 2 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 3 | They got past my crater and to the trenches we had attacked from , but they were driven back again almost at once . |
| 4 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 5 | In my judgment and for the reasons which I have given , the challenge based upon the implication of a requirement of natural justice must fail . |
| 6 | It was the logic of their medium ( the camera filmed what it saw ) and the need for stories that led producers to film aspects of their times but in the movies themselves the supremacy of fiction relegated society to a background . |
| 7 | Is not the simple truth that the Government do not give a damn about law and order and do not care about the safety of people in their homes and on the streets ? |
| 8 | Rather it is necessary to look at the people involved — the professionals — and understand how they relate both to their clients and to the organisations in which they work , for it is these structures that powerfully condition the primary relationships . |
| 9 | Fish excrete both from their vents and through the gills in the form of ammonia . |
| 10 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |
| 11 | But it should be clear that while one or two methods may be the most important for attributing coins to a mint or dating them , almost any other consideration can be important , depending on its relevance or on the accidents of survival . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But even without looking he 'd known that her clothes — all her dresses and her coats and her cardigans and her shoes were no longer in her wardrobe or in the chests of drawers she shared with his father in their bedroom . |
| 14 | Individuals are responsible for fire safety in their own homes but most householders insure against the possibility of accidental fire damage to the fabric of their home and to the contents . |
| 15 | Therefore , he reasoned , " a simple calculation will show that the UAE and Kuwaiti loans to Iraq were not entirely from their treasuries but from the increases in their oil revenues as a result of the drop in Iraqi oil exports over the war years " . |
| 16 | It was predictable that another important single issue could bring the students back out of their classrooms and onto the streets . |
| 17 | Marcella Tate was very pale and her skin was clear , almost transparent , so that fine bluish veins showed on her forehead and at the temples . |
| 18 | If we want to support the United Nations in its role and in the reorganisations that we have suggested , it is essential that we vote the means for that as well as talking about it . |
| 19 | Francome suggests that the only way to obtain reliable data about heterosexual behaviour is to ask men about their previous experiences and the ages of their partners and from the responses construct the data for women . |
| 20 | Yeast from the beer beer in the brewery had caused a scaly rash to grow on her forearms and across the backs of her hands . |
| 21 | In the book itself he carried through this programme by asserting that theology could not be dictated to by another discipline either about the nature of its object or about the methods appropriate to its study . |
| 22 | During chemical reactions , there is always a dispersal of energy either from the chemical system to its surroundings or from the surroundings to the chemical system . |
| 23 | ( Articles of association are an agreement between the company and its members and between the members : Companies Act 1985 , s14 . ) |
| 24 | The Institute strives to achieve this and , in doing so , it deserves the support of its members and of the companies to which they belong . |
| 25 | It seemed in truth a time of indulgent expansion ; and , as if in retribution , students of all kinds , in universities old and new and in the polytechnics , became more and more resistant to authority , not just social authority , but the academic authority of their teachers and of the disciplines within which they were studying . |
| 26 | Two centuries later , the Enlightenment returns : but not at all as a way for the West to take cognizance of its present possibilities and of the liberties to which it can have access , but as a way of interrogating it on its limits and on the powers which it has abused . |
| 27 | She could do it — not with her fists but with the techniques learned in martial arts . |
| 28 | Many 16 to 18-year olds are living off their wits and on the streets . |
| 29 | If a B T employee did disclose information against all their training and against the rules that we 've got in place in B T , then we would obviously take that very seriously indeed and erm dismissal would no doubt follow if it was found that th the person had disclosed information . |
| 30 | But we 're trying to , in the course , give engineers and physicists the opportunity to see something right through from a fundamental simple scientific idea , the scientific concept , to its application and to the limitations which are imposed by the scientific theory and by practicalities and economics , and of limitations on existing techniques . |