Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry about that whingeing on at the end of the last letter . |
| 2 | We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage . |
| 3 | Statistical studies , such as that published recently in the British Medical Journal , show that there is no association between the consumption of lightly boiled eggs and illness . |
| 4 | In the case of the UK these figures are supported by surveys such as that carried out by the Inner London Education Authority which showed that over 22% of the children it its schools spoke a language other than , or in addition to , English at home . |
| 5 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 6 | The responsibility for that lies not with the west , but with the CIS itself . |
| 7 | For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout . |
| 8 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
| 9 | And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question . |
| 10 | An ordinary member of parliament who attempted to gratify constituents by pressing for a senior appointment was likely to be put firmly in his place by the Treasury , for this happened even to the well-connected David Scott , when representing the Dundee burghs in 1796 . |
| 11 | Current trainer John Hyland is keen on the dog taking his chance in the St Leger after Shy bowed out of the Irish |
| 12 | The movement broke the spell , and a hubbub of laughter and shouting replaced the silence as one woman after another jumped gleefully into the pool . |
| 13 | A professional career as such seemed out of the question ; his only ambition in life was to be an artist . |
| 14 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 15 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 16 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 17 | But did any of that come out at the inquest ? |
| 18 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
| 19 | And most of that goes on in the daytime |
| 20 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 21 | This mill may well stand on the site of that recorded here in the Domesday Survey . |
| 22 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 23 | Most of this falls back into the sea , as rain or snow , but 100 000 cubic kilometres of it falls on land . |
| 24 | Occasional evidence of this percolates through into the newspapers and , now and again , the law reports . |
| 25 | The Col du Somport and the upper valley of the Aspe are at the western end of the Pyrenean National Park — to be exact , a narrow tongue of this extends across on the other , western side of the valley into the ring of mountains forming the Cirque of Lescun . |
| 26 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
| 27 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 28 | Corroborative evidence of this comes sometimes from the spectral widths of the lines , and sometimes from observation of movement of the patches , revealed in sequences of photographs . |
| 29 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 30 | The roots of this belong not in the New Testament but in Latin legalism . |