Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 5 | This mill may well stand on the site of that recorded here in the Domesday Survey . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Just pr producing new copies as you need them rather than produce five thousand and I think we we have sort of hundreds to throw away in the end . |
| 9 | Yet a staggering eight out of 10 disagreed strongly with the idea AIDS is n't really a risk for young people . |
| 10 | The first of these survives only in the form of a writ sent out by Edward I on 14 November 1279 , informing his judges that henceforward no religious or other person should receive any land in perpetuity , on pain of seizure by the chief lord , or , if he should neglect to do so , then by the king himself . |
| 11 | Many of these grew wildly over the past few years , and have now seen business vanish . |
| 12 | Monosaccharides carry several hydroxyl groups ( OH ) and , when a disaccharide is formed , two of these link together with the loss of the elements of water . |
| 13 | ‘ We heard the noise of glass falling to the floor and I saw this group of three heading straight for the door . |
| 14 | Perhaps the best one of all happened again at the good old reception desk at the BBC , but this time not to me . |
| 15 | There were tables of ten arranged right through the gallery . |
| 16 | Beside the door of each room a supply of ready-loaded firearms had been laid ; every available weapon , from the Enfield rifles of those killed earlier in the siege to native flintlocks and the countless sporting guns which had been such a feature of " the possessions " , had been pressed into service . |
| 17 | The State Education Commission does have records of those sent abroad by the state and those who return , but has incomplete data on self-financing or sifei students . |
| 18 | Imagining the terror of those left behind in the middle , their precious cover dwindling every moment , Mungo could bear no more and looked away . |
| 19 | Michael Zhidkov , a great grandfather with a look of Ken Dodd , tries to alleviate the suffering of those left behind by the stampede for capitalism through his work as head of the Compassion Ministry . |
| 20 | SIR — Details of the mysterious respiratory illness mentioned by Nelson ( June 12 , p 1526 ) among Navajo Indians are at present sparse , but the symptoms are reminiscent of those described early in the course of an ‘ acute nephritis ’ which occurred with trench warfare in the First World War . |
| 21 | She turned to the doorway where she knew the singer would emerge as the stroke of twelve died away on the still night . |
| 22 | Pieda 's report found that 56,000 jobs outside the Scotch whisky industry depend on the jobs of 15,000 employed directly by the big Scotch concerns . |
| 23 | Only around 15 out of 200 work privately at the moment . |
| 24 | Only around 15 out of 200 work privately at the moment . |
| 25 | Better-than-expected trade figures and increasing optimism that UK interest rates may start to fall from their current 15 per cent level , perhaps as early as next spring , helped fuel a 23.9 point rise in the index to 2,422.7 — within four points of the year 's high of 2,426 established just before the mini-crash in October and within hailing distance of the all-time high of 2,443.4 , established on July 16 , 1987 . |
| 26 | Through the glass I could see the long lines of blue moving away down the street and I could still hear the shouts of the corporal . |
| 27 | With a lead of 61 gained early on the third day , England were in a strong position to win . |
| 28 | basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next |
| 29 | A situation like this continues only at the peril of all of us , and a heavy responsibility rests on the new TECs to set it right . |
| 30 | She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs , but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh . |