Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During Ministry 's set tonight the earth started flying , along with the bodies . |
| 2 | We , it was when I went to , when I , we were doing something with maps when I was at school and they were trying to find out what , it was the , where the local rates where the money was spent for the local rates and one of projects was taken down the sewage works . |
| 3 | Having secured seats on the saloon deck we went to look about us , and saw another large flock of sheep being driven down the quay towards our steamer . |
| 4 | Such a claim can of course be brought in the same action by which the recognition of the automatic hiring and the awarding of the relevant salary is sought . |
| 5 | This pattern of living was reproduced wherever the peripatetic court might settle . |
| 6 | Their dance is very different from the work of petipa , whose suggestion of demi-caractère is seen when the Songbird and Bluebird dance in The Sleeping Beauty , where the fluttering of the hands is meant to indicate that birds fly and sing . |
| 7 | This type of shift was slit down the back for ease of application and secured with back-tie draw-strings at the neck and waist ; such items were , it is assumed , readily available from the undertaker . |
| 8 | When degrees of control are introduced then the situation does become manipulated by the observer . |
| 9 | This identity of message was recognized down the line , and had the effect that one would have expected . |
| 10 | These two schools of thought are termed here the ‘ kinship defenders ’ and the ‘ society as parent protagonists ’ . |
| 11 | Where the jobs of members are guaranteed then the rationality of opposition retreats . |
| 12 | Let bourgeois philosophy be cudgelled and smashed by the Revolution " , when he uncompromisingly asserted : " Let us have the courage to be crude : let the spirit of subtlety be swept down the sewer … |
| 13 | If the balance conditions are independent of the frequency of the supply then the use of a nonsinusoidal source poses no balancing problems , the harmonic components of potential being balanced whenever the fundamental components are ( see section 11.1 ) . |
| 14 | A block of stone being brought up the slide from an underground quarry at Herston . |
| 15 | Fifty-four acres of land were acquired down the line in Darlington in 1899 . |
| 16 | The second reading of the Finance Bill follows and from 1969 the bill has then been divided , clauses and schedules which involve issues of principle being taken on the floor of the House while the more detailed clauses are sent upstairs to a standing committee . |
| 17 | The Treaty of Canterbury was signed later the same month and included among its provisions of the establishment of an Intergovernmental Commission to monitor the execution of the concession , and a Safety Authority which advises the Commission on all safety matters relating to the construction and operation of the Tunnel . |
| 18 | We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank . |
| 19 | In Lebanon , where the Palestinian war against Israel was focused once the PLO 's guerrilla movement was evicted from Jordan in 1970 , they were squirrelled away beneath floors or carpets , sometimes stored in rusting biscuit tins , broken suitcases and ancient trunks , often the very containers in which the refugees carried their most valuable belongings from Palestine in 1948 . |
| 20 | Once belief in Satan is overthrown then the church has to see its role not in conquering the ‘ Devil and all his works ’ but in overcoming ignorance , disease , superstition and injustice . |
| 21 | Arsenal 's lack of genuine quality in midfield was made all the more painful by a fine display by David Rocastle . |
| 22 | Up to 60 staff at S and S Press in Abingdon were told yesterday the company was going out of business and their services were no longer required . |
| 23 | They let off frequent bursts of fire into the air to remind everyone that the only law in Somalia is administered down the barrel of a gun . |
| 24 | The funeral had in fact been held only the day before . |
| 25 | However , while Danzig enjoyed these widespread trade contacts and reaped the benefit of the still massive river trade in Polish timber ( 16,949 log floats of 9 logs per float were rafted down the Warthe to Stettin or Berlin in 1871 alone ) Western Europe had already moved on to develop its rail networks . |
| 26 | And the introduction about about care is passed up the three tiers , like a triangular system 's |
| 27 | Yet when he and other top men at GE are asked why the company has only one foreigner on its 19-member board of directors , they insist that this is no obstacle to making the company truly global . |