Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever one thinks about the activities of the author , he was a former member of the security services . |
| 2 | Oxygen from the air goes through the LUNGS into the blood . |
| 3 | Nearing the head of the loch , the road goes through the woodlands of the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve and trails are available for the public up the mountainside . |
| 4 | So these are the things that are worrying Robyn Penrose as she drives through the gates of the University , with a nod and a smile to the security man in his little glass sentry box : her lecture on the Industrial Novel , her job future , and her relationship with Charles — in that order of conspicuousness rather than importance . |
| 5 | Mapping of the contact points between the deoxyriboses in the DNA backbone and cAMP-CRP and CytR |
| 6 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 7 | Alejandro Mayta the revolutionary theorist who heads for the hills in the hope of joining a mass uprising comes over finally as a misguided almost pathetic figure . |
| 8 | ‘ It is difficult to ask my colleagues to risk their lives if nobody cares about the lives of the people , ’ Mr Mendiluce told reporters in Sarajevo . |
| 9 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 10 | She looks after the dogs at the moment to keep herself busy . |
| 11 | Mrs Jones ' mother looks after the children in the afternoon . |
| 12 | Why ITV are pulling plugs : Neil Wilson looks behind the screens at the changing picture of televised sport |
| 13 | Cartographic logic suggests it was in fact an isolated hill that stands above the headwaters of the Rio Congo — an unspectacular 1,800 ft-high hillock , somewhat denuded of trees , a short distance away from a rudimentary track ( made by wild pigs , or cattle , or perhaps by people long ago ) which can still be discerned in the jungle . |
| 14 | The tower still stands above the walls of the old Hindu fortress , a tapering cylinder rising up 240 feet in four ever-diminishing storeys like a fully extended telescope placed lens-down on a plateau in the Aravalli hills . |
| 15 | Reddish stands in Broad Chalke , a large and disparate village which lies along the meadows of the Chalke stream . |
| 16 | This rating system starts with the likelihoods of the beginnings of letter strings . |
| 17 | The direct , if fragmentary , evidence for this history lies in the archives of the earth , the sedimentary rocks . |
| 18 | Hundreds more may be missing in the disaster at Llipi , in Bolivia , which lies in the foothills of the Andes . |
| 19 | If the essence of infanticide lies in the effects of the stresses consequent upon recent childbirth , then it is this , and not the age of the victim , which should be the basis of the law . |
| 20 | The reasons for delay differ in civil and criminal procedure , not least because in civil matters the conduct of the action lies in the hands of the parties , who may agree through their lawyers to delays in proceedings . |
| 21 | Remark The real meat in this theorem lies in the equalities of the degrees of G and g and of H and h . |
| 22 | Rather , its importance results from where it lies in the circuits of the left hemisphere and the way that it processes the inputs it receives . |
| 23 | ‘ If this judgment is less helpful than the parties hoped , as it almost certainly is , the reason lies in the terms of the statute , which places the discretion so unequivocally on the trial judge that it leaves little or no room for an appellate court to lay down principles or even guidelines . |
| 24 | At moments like this Forester writes within the conventions of the genre and uses them superbly . |
| 25 | Parents in Middleton St George , near Darlington , have raised several thousand pounds to maintain the building which stands in the grounds of the village school . |
| 26 | She lives in the depths of the country and is a little eccentric , so they say . |
| 27 | life in the fast lane … has its problems though … and our round-up starts in the pits with the Williams team from Didcot … they 're going to appeal against a proposed ban on the technology that 's helped them dominate the sport over the past couple of years … |
| 28 | This was received in the next room on Creed teleprinters from the wires of the Canadian Press . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the cervical spine is constrained between a somewhat rigid thoracic spine and a skull weighing 6 kg ; movement of the head , which has been estimated to occur around 600 times each hour , adds to the forces on the articulations . |
| 30 | The lack of supply points on the route adds to the difficulties of the walk . |