Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be extremely frustrating for people who have to travel to London and face the expense of preparing a case — sometimes employing parliamentary counsel to put their case — knowing that decisions are not necessarily taken on the merits of the arguments but on political considerations . |
| 2 | Erm but er we 've had one or two people come to us , and report that they 've been mugged , there again we get straight on the phone to the police . |
| 3 | Coleridge even dares to take on the subject of the workings of Nature , as it were , as he attempts to describe the power and intensity of the earth breathing ; his reference to the ‘ ceaseless turmoil seething , as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing ’ shows the poet getting almost as close to the heart of creativity as it is possible to do . |
| 4 | It is not enough to notify the regional chairman or committee members of what 's going on and hope that they will pass on the message to the members and supporters . |
| 5 | defiance of house rules ( e.g. breaking rules about playing with matches , about not switching on the TV before the children 's programmes begin , about sitting at the table until the meal is finished , or about not taking food out of the fridge without permission ) ; |
| 6 | In 1971 the CNAA gave evidence to the James Committee expressing its willingness to take on the validation of the Teachers Certificate if there was a need for it to do so . |
| 7 | But Thamesdown councillors are worried that few private companies will want to take on the project in the depths of a recession . |
| 8 | A " Space " drama in which each class takes on the roles of the inhabitants of different planets , each of which is in trouble . |
| 9 | Few of the facts are disputed , while everything hangs on the intention behind the actions . |
| 10 | While pulling down the ropes between the stalactites , crane your neck upwards and peer at the bolted lines of Jacky Godoffe 's grade eights , such as Autoportrait ( 8b+ ) . |
| 11 | Vultures fly down the ceilings into the depths of the tombs . |
| 12 | Using a long hooked pole , he yanked down the mistletoe from the boughs of an old apple tree . |
| 13 | Ceauşescu 's interference with features of the design wore down the patience of the architects and their staff . |
| 14 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 15 | Turning from the ugly sight of the old woman 's contorted features , she fled the room , running incontinently down the gallery to the stairs , unaware that Hector , barking excitedly , ran out after her . |
| 16 | Write down the answers to the questions listed below . |
| 17 | Prana can be inhaled and directed by means of currents flowing down the sheaths of the nerves to all parts of the body . |
| 18 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 19 | If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road ! |
| 20 | The thing about thing about if you go down the south of the islands they 're so nice , it 's very hard . |
| 21 | This incident was an isolated one , but it served to highlight the overlap between the possible measures of performance that had been considered ; an undetected error not only slowed down the payment of the expenses , but could also have bought into question the honesty of the individual and thus affected the status of the section head . |
| 22 | They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids . |
| 23 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
| 24 | At the CPSU congress currently in session Gorbachev tried to play down the significance of the strikes , claiming that the " general strike " urged by independent miner 's leaders had not materialized . |
| 25 | He hunched his shoulders and stamped his way defiantly down the rest of the stairs and out into the cobbled street . |
| 26 | Instead , he half lifted her down the rest of the stairs meaning to frogmarch her towards the door that led to the yard . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , have you not ? ’ snapped the other , coming hastily forward to confront her as Theda came down the rest of the stairs . |
| 28 | I was half way down the alley between the walls with the hope bright before me that my patient would be improved when from nowhere an appalling explosion of sound blasted into my right ear . |
| 29 | At that moment , too , there was another diversion — a large black and white cat appeared from some kitchen region and stalked down the passage between the tables . |
| 30 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |