Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [det] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your issue on Chile ( NI 174 ) was a truly significant and encouraging publication both for Chileans in exile and those working within the country . |
| 2 | He punched Mr. Gilbert in self-defence and both fell to the ground . |
| 3 | The relation between the effects of habituation and those implied by the Pearce — Hall model can perhaps be made clear if we adopt the elaboration offered by Liddell ( 1950 ) of Pavlov 's notion of the orienting reflex . |
| 4 | In the life drawing classes it was hard to get a seat and many sat on the windowsills . |
| 5 | In the 1980s it became apparent that an increasing number of the senior jobs were handled by executive search and this increased during the decade until the late 1980s , when 80% of all senior jobs in the UK sourced outside the company were covered by the search firms . |
| 6 | The correlations between the recognition measures from this study and those calculated from the previous study were compared . |
| 7 | The children live outside the immediate neighbourhood and this accounts for the difficulty in persuading parents to visit the school although great efforts have been made to improve upon this . |
| 8 | On the west , between the still central figure and those reclining in the angles , the strugglers are divided into three groups in each wing : two groups of three figures each separated by a short one of two . |
| 9 | In years with more bees , there is clearly a different quality of pollination and this varies with the time in the season considered , but poorer quality pollination at other times is better than none , so that specialization with one pollinator per plant species is unlikely to evolve . |
| 10 | It was therefore considered appropriate to assign responses such as these to the ‘ other ’ rather than the ‘ no ’ category and this accounts for the rather unusual statistics . |
| 11 | Er was on a smaller scale of course and more done with the hand than machine . |
| 12 | Based on a ten year study the report shows remaining areas of woodland and those lost since the end of the First World War . |
| 13 | All employees are part of THE TEAM and this extends throughout the organisation . |
| 14 | Having tracked down Amy , we asked her to explain what attracted her to ‘ Believing ’ : ‘ I 'm obsessed with flamenco at the moment and that fitted with the ‘ Believing ’ references to exotic South American styles . ’ |
| 15 | For instrument approaches airfield QNH is to be used until approaching the Final Approach Fix or Final Approach Point , as appropriate , when QFE is to be set at the Initial Point and all flying in the visual circuit is to be conducted on QFE . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're like some beautiful sea nymph … ’ he whispered softly in her ear , his hands protectively holding her slim body as , half standing and half floating in the water , she wound her arms about his neck . |
| 17 | A POLICEMAN was kneed in the groin and another punched in the face as they tried to break up brawling schoolgirls at a railway station . |
| 18 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 19 | Animals come here and the only contact they have with man is a prod or a kick and that combines with the stress of the journey and the noise . |
| 20 | He stared at the ice-covered ground and half listened to the cold wind moaning gently amongst the trees . |
| 21 | As a child , she was always deeply affected by the story of the sower who sowed his seeds , and some fell by the wayside , and some on stony ground and some fell among the thorns , and some fell upon good ground and bore fruit . |
| 22 | The companies took the point and began beautifying the environs of their stations in the manner suggested by Mitchell , designing their station gardens to be seen to best advantage by both those arriving on the train and those waiting on the station . |
| 23 | The poetry which the children produced as a result forms a major part of the exhibition which also includes photographs from the library 's archives , the Bigger-McDonald Collection , the Willie Carson Collection and those donated by the late Mabel Colhoun . |
| 24 | ‘ I found her lying with her head on a little chair and half lying on the floor . |
| 25 | Comparison of size might be made more clearly between prints made by an adult and those made by the children . |
| 26 | In contrast , Skinner regards language as part of the process by which human beings interact with their environment and this points to the relations between utterances and their environmental effects as the natural focus for research activity . |
| 27 | People are looking for tastier beef and that comes from the Hereford cattle . |
| 28 | I gather that the cloth has really been dated , found to be the wrong age and that disposes of the matter . |
| 29 | There is strong evidence that fraud and irregularity against the Community budget continue on a large scale and that controls within the system are not sufficiently effective throughout the Community . |
| 30 | There is no clear boundary between the measures that can be adopted under the Treaty and those adopted under the Agreement . |