Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 2 | Now I can not bear the darkness and have to keep on relighting the candle , fumbling for the matches in the total darkness . |
| 3 | Table 5.9 also compares values for the bonds in the diatomic halogen molecules as the group is descended . |
| 4 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 5 | As for the provisions in the social chapter , that would be a discipline that would reduce jobs . |
| 6 | Following the recent discussions between [ name of MAS partner/manager ] and[name of vendor/vendor 's representative ] we are writing to confirm that we would be pleased to act for the shareholders in the proposed sale of your subsidiary , More Mature Business Limited ( ‘ the company ’ ) , and to set out formally our terms of reference and responsibilities with regard to our involvement in the sale process . |
| 7 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 8 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 9 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 10 | It is likely , particularly if one allows for the gaps in the 1474–75 returns , that the period when London secured its massive commercial lead over the rest of the country was the last quarter of the fifteenth and the first quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | Appearances : Tudor Owen for the officers in the first case , Edmund Lawson QC and Michael Egan for Mr Cherry , all instructed by Russell Jones & Walker ; Ann Goddard QC with Nicholas Ainley in the first case , and with Oliver Sells in the Cherry case , all instructed by the DPP ; James Holdsworth instructed by the Treasury Solicitor for both magistrates . |
| 12 | The unit provides an intensive casework and development service for the advisers in the 65 West Midlands bureaux to help them deal with particularly complex social security , employment and related enquiries from the public . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , statistics have been produced by the FPSC for the countries in the European Community and a tentative ‘ league ’ table of one parent families produced . |
| 14 | Lyon added a consolation try for the visitors in the last minute . |
| 15 | If five peaks were set up they could provide the basis for the tentacles of hydra , or for the fingers in the early development of the human hand . |
| 16 | This section outlines the theoretical background to the topic in question , and provides a conceptual framework for the tasks in the following two sections . |
| 17 | We could almost have forgotten about the war but for the shell-holes in the surrounding downland , stark white chalk amid the tawny grass , the result of gunnery practice on the artillery and tank ranges at Tidworth , Bulford , and at Larkhill , where I remembered Leslie had gone to a firing camp all those months ago . |
| 18 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 19 | A change of livery for the Coronations in the Sixties . |
| 20 | The second , concerning the Alpine soldiers , took place five days later : ‘ Submarine cast off and with the Lewis gun accounted for the soldiers in the rubber raft ’ [ my italics ] . |
| 21 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 22 | There was no need for the pebbles in the overall plan , and there was no likelihood of their imminent deployment . |
| 23 | As can be seen from paragraph 3 of the reports for the hearings in the two cases , the British legislation at issue , dating from 1988 , provides for the establishment of a new register of all British fishing vessels including those registered in the old register maintained under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 . |
| 24 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 25 | In any event , and no matter what reforms were contemplated , the issue that was posed by Marius Moutet , pre-war Minister for the Colonies in the Popular Front and shortly to become Minister for Overseas France , was whether or not France really considered herself to be a nation of 100 m. and whether or not she was to be a great power . |
| 26 | Finnan 's passengers stowed most of their gear in the hold and the Hearthwares slept there , but there was room for the others in the three-sided cabin , though the roof was so low they bumped their heads . |
| 27 | The accord follows a threat by the Greens to withdraw their support for the Socialists in the regional assembly unless consideration for environmental factors was built into development strategies . |
| 28 | This is necessarily a source of weakness for the banks in the competitive struggle against the building societies . |
| 29 | In these cases , however , the Central Committee will also allow reasonable charges to the Scottish solicitor for meetings with the client and minor correspondence to ascertain the availability of legal aid for the proceedings in the particular country involved . |
| 30 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |