Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 2 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 3 | The head of the ‘ effigy ’ is a wax portrait — Bentham 's own head was removed , desiccated , provided with glass eyes and placed under a glass dome to sit between the feet of the auto-icon ; it , too , is now on public display — a little start-eyed , yet nevertheless recognizable ( Col. 3 ) . |
| 4 | It would be a simple matter to saw off the shafts of the clubs and embed the heads in a dummy top . |
| 5 | The group says they 'consider it inappropriate and ill advised to carry through the prposals for the restructuring of the Army in their entirety , and that they recommend the Government cancel all amalgamations or disbandments ’ |
| 6 | Pushing himself with indolent grace away from the door , Rourke came into the room and began to rummage about the shelves beneath the counter . |
| 7 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 8 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 9 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 10 | It is perhaps hard for us to realize after the years of the inter-war depression that for sixty years before 1914 the Durham pit men and the shipyard workers of Tyne and Wear were among the most highly paid workers outside the USA … . |
| 11 | 2 Is the product or sample small enough to slip between the pages of the magazine or can it easily be attached to the front cover ? |
| 12 | The difficulty arises partly in differentiating between what the user needs to know about the workings of the system , i.e. , how transparent the system should be so that the task can be performed effectively and efficiently . |
| 13 | NEW BOOKS Rt Hon John Biffen MP will be signing his new ‘ everything you wanted to know about the proceedings of the House of Commons ’ Guide . |
| 14 | Ginnie was to write about the wonders of the First Aid Group and George about his beloved badgers . |
| 15 | Times have changed since Naipaul began to write about the societies of the Caribbean : these are now less apt to seem , to the outsider , petty and remote . |
| 16 | As Byrd begins the long rehabilitation process which doctors hope will enable him to regain some movement , former team-mate Al Toon , one of the game 's top wide receivers , sits in retirement after being unable to shake off the effects of the ninth concussion in his eight-year career . |
| 17 | After considering updating the old parish church the decision was made to provide for the needs of the 21st century , building a church large enough for both the old St Peter & St Paul church and St George 's , Kettlethorpe . |
| 18 | Swetz found a problem in a Tanzanian textbook about canned peaches and ‘ is concerned about asking a poor man to struggle through the problems of the rich ’ . |
| 19 | Few questions ask the rich to struggle through the problems of the poor . |
| 20 | The way of working therefore should be to negotiate long term visitors with regions on the present ‘ bidding ’ system as this gave enough space to work through the Coordinators with the opportunity of a regional strategy for using the visitor . |
| 21 | These projects , covering issues such as information requirements and the purchasing role of health authorities , are designed to work through the implications of the White Paper at a local level . |
| 22 | I made it my practice , not without some official misgivings , to work through the chairmen of the regional boards as a collective body , behaving , though they were my appointees , as no more than their primus inter pares . |
| 23 | Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side . |
| 24 | The road serves the village of Barashevo and sometimes the civilians have to stand behind the lines of the guards and wait for the columns of criminals to go by before they can proceed on their way . |
| 25 | Indeed it is his duty , and his duty alone , to communicate with the departments of the government on all matters affecting the policy of the council . |
| 26 | The Board instructed their clerk to communicate with the governors of the infirmary on the matter , and in his reply a week later , the house surgeon there ( who acted as hospital secretary ) said that he had thought the case capable of being treated as an out-patient . |
| 27 | You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles . |
| 28 | There can be the desperate feeling that life has passed them by , and they stand on a precipice , wondering whether to jump into the arms of the first person who offers , or risk endless loneliness. , |
| 29 | WHILE the rest of the country is still trying to grapple with the effects of the recession , Las Vegas , the desert oasis created by gambling , continues to boom and prosper in much the same way as it has always done . |
| 30 | Trade union education has , for the most part , barely started to grapple with the implications of the growing importance of public-sector trade unionism : in 1972 , for example , 6.6 per cent of all TUC membership belonged to NUPE or NALGO alone ; by 1982 , the equivalent figure was 14.1 per cent . |