Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysis of cells from these rats showed that drug action had interfered with the expression of genes for some of the proteins designed to move sugar into muscle and fat cells , exactly the target tissues which must be stimulated by insulin if they are to take up excess sugar . |
| 2 | Passengers who had left their vehicles on the car deck had crowded at the rails on the upper deck . |
| 3 | Colchester Hackney Carriage Association had pleaded with the borough council to relent after they were told cabbies would face five or six per cent increases on licence charges this year . |
| 4 | Five years later the Football Association adopted numbering in the Cup final , using numbers 1 to 22 , but Chapman was not finally vindicated until 1939 — five years after his death — when the League made it compulsory , primarily for the benefit of spectators . |
| 5 | THE Football Association is to launch an inquiry into the crowd trouble involving Birmingham City supporters at Blackpool on Saturday , when police in riot gear had to move into the terraces to part fighting fans . |
| 6 | The total loss of these aircraft and crews was the bitterest blow Bomber Command had to suffer in the entire war , and it is difficult to understand why it happened . |
| 7 | When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route . |
| 8 | The heat was intense and the humidity so heavy that the setting sun seemed crushed into the mountains like a piece of squashed orange modelling clay . |
| 9 | Clwyd council and the borough council had agreed to the transfer of the premises but the plan has been put on ice because NEWI , formerly under the wing of the county council , is to become an independent body from April . |
| 10 | In a ballot , the Club membership decided to stay with the trails and Brower 's suspension by the Board for ‘ dictatorial methods , disobedience and fiscal irresponsibility ’ was upheld . |
| 11 | Of the 80 to 90 staff employed in Liverpool and Watford all the 55 directors and senior managers eligible for the relocation package continued to work in the new location and of these 55 , all but three moved to Congleton . |
| 12 | There had already been a violent expression of xenophobic sentiment earlier in the year when China 's football team failed to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 13 | He explained that he wanted to stay silent until the special trade union review group had reported on the options available . |
| 14 | The orientation of sCD2 is chosen relative to a cell surface assumed to lie at the bottom of the illustration in the plane normal to the vertical . |
| 15 | In the mid 1940s Battelle took an interest in developing the process further , and at a later date it was exploited through the Haloid Corporation after a research person had read about the technology in a journal . |
| 16 | There was initial speculation that hooligan behaviour had contributed to the disaster , but an official inquiry by Lord Justice Taylor ( Taylor , 1989 ) blamed police crowd-management tactics . |
| 17 | Third term Thatcherism became grounded in the imaginary place that was called the inner city . |
| 18 | CAR demand failed to respond to the Budget boost last month and , with election uncertainty now affecting business , manufacturers are pessimistic about the outlook and are cutting sales forecasts . |
| 19 | The sit-in at Beishida ( shortened form of the university 's name ) caused some tension , but eventually the college principal promised to look into the matter . |
| 20 | The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself . |
| 21 | In mid-afternoon the first glints of steel in the spring sunshine began to appear on the high ground of Scremerston Brae , and soon the long hill down to sea-level was covered in a vast tide of men and horses , armour gleaming , banners waving , under a faint haze of steam rising from thousands of beasts long ridden , muting the colours of plumed helmets , heraldic surcoats , painted shields and horse-trappings . |
| 22 | As the economy slipped into recession and the value of real estate declined , however , estimates of the bailout cost continued to rise throughout the year . |
| 23 | The Noonday Gazette had arrived with the water cart that morning , children were still working the spigot to fill the tall earthenware jars from the big barrel mounted in the muletrap , while the carter stood by to keep count of the charge . |
| 24 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 25 | A carriage clock lay smashed on the floor beside an art-nouveau lamp ; and the bedside table on which , presumably , they had both stood , had been split almost in two . |
| 26 | Sometimes the wheelbarrow was stuck so firmly that the aluminium honeycomb began to rip from the rim as I pushed . |
| 27 | Finally , the graph search perspective helped to focus on the dynamic aspects of speech processing . |
| 28 | The auction house decided to withdraw from the sale when its December 1990 contract with Lord Northampton came up for renewal . |
| 29 | A tribute to Leo Fender 's apparently limitless creativity , almost before the Jazz bass had leapt off the drawing board he was working on yet another guitar concept , the marriage of guitar and bass which was to become the Bass VI . |
| 30 | The Data Protection Act did apply to the doggy database , he added , and all details would kept confidential . |