Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | new sectoral relations of exploitation ( in which a relatively large number of people exploit an increasingly marginalized minority for whom collective provision remains the only and strictly second best , option ) . |
| 2 | After his narrow failure to convince the Labour party conference in 1930 , he and six other MPs left the Labour party to form the New Party , which actively campaigned on the Mosley Manifesto , a rewritten version of the memorandum . |
| 3 | Citizens going about their lawful occasion merit the support of the police and the courts , not their moral disapprobation . |
| 4 | JO DURIE brushed aside worries about her injured knee to reach the second round of the Volkswagen Cup at Eastbourne with a 6–3 4–6 6–1 win over Elena Likhovtseva . |
| 5 | Furious barking about her flying feet penetrated the despair in her breast , and she looked down . |
| 6 | He thanked the committee for their support , and especially Greta Matthews for her hard work organising the festival , along with the secretary Elaine Land and the treasurer . |
| 7 | To establish the total proportion who would break the law , we must add to this a factor which reminds us how many rich people were in the sample ( 767/1326 , or 0.578 ) times their increased propensity to break the law ( +0.144 ) . |
| 8 | Commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse in association with Nottingham New Arts Works & Dance 4 ‘ … a wonderful dancer who attracts our gaze like a magnet ’ Le Monde ‘ No other London dance group does so much simply through its mere existence to expand the boundaries of dance ’ Time Out ‘ Catalyst , agent-provocateur , sex-symbol and idol … the Wunderkind of British New-Wave ’ The Times |
| 9 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 10 | To the world at large , the Sultanate of Oman attracts attention for its strategic position guarding the Straits of Hormuz through which passes fifty per cent of the world 's oil supplies . |
| 11 | This cam is in turn pinned to the upper arm of the bell crank C. The resulting rotation of the crank about its fixed pivot causes the horizontal portion to rise and fall , lifting link member D and with it the vertically constrained rod member E. The needle carried in a collet at the lower end is thus made to oscillate vertically . |
| 12 | His tongue thrusting between her impassioned lips emulated the rhythm of his penetration . |
| 13 | She sighed erotically in his ear , as the tips of his fingers explored between her mature quim-lips to run the whole length of her crack as if he were playing scales on a piano . |
| 14 | Explanations for their increased susceptibility include the impairment of humoral and cellular host defences , defective reticuloendothelial phagocytic function and impaired complement activity . |
| 15 | Tory councillors disagree and continue to press the case for their alternative plan to make the town 's Northgate traffic-free . |
| 16 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 17 | That such a prolific goalscorer should choose a club renowned for their attacking play demonstrates the practical considerations which influenced his decision . |
| 18 | Our thanks to all who attended and to the Sports and Social Committee for their hard work to make the night yet another success . |
| 19 | Alaskans faced with choosing Mr Bill Clinton or Mr Jerry Brown for their presidential candidate took the third option , with the majority voting ‘ do n't know ’ . |
| 20 | An Essex Police spokesman said the three men were to be praised for their swift action following the raid . |
| 21 | I tell you , I went up those steps faster than a scalded faggot , propelled by a barbarous diuretic terror on behalf of my exposed rear end The heavy door at the top did n't give until the fifth push , but by then I had turned , and seen the shrugging figures as they retreated into the light , and now I could hear only laughter . |
| 22 | I detest the armoured , air-conditioned truck that deprived me of my final opportunity to desecrate the holy relic that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 23 | This debate is taking place in the early hours of the morning , but the presence of so many of my hon. Friends underlines the importance which the Opposition attach to it , which contrasts starkly with the importance that the Government attach to it . |
| 24 | One of my favourite bits concerned the column she was commissioned to write for a newspaper during the general election . |
| 25 | So this fact ( that they were not being totally myopic ) accounted for the fact that , despite their poor ability to get the myopically optimal production level right ( which is what many of them said that they were trying to do ) , they almost did as well ( in terms of realized profit ) as the myopic strategy . |
| 26 | This is because of their legitimate keenness to stress the presence of a communal principle in the history of mankind . |
| 27 | True , they did n't show the filming of their frantic attempts to resuscitate the desperately injured girl , but they did show Kathleen emerging from Resus. , tears in her eyes , telling the cameraman to get out of her way , and then they showed a brief interview with Jack where they discussed the case in scant outline , and also her reaction to the death . |
| 28 | Passing beneath the arch the children felt the slope beneath them and tumbled into a trot , the echoes of their stamping feet sending the pigeons plummeting from their perches . |
| 29 | In the final , Royston and Cawkell settled quickly and took full advantage of their five-point start to take the first game 15–5 . |
| 30 | The end of their fearful regime left the country with the task of reconstructing the entire Greek economy and bridging the deep rifts that had opened up between the Greek people themselves . |