Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | European reaction to the sale has been muted ; one London auction house expert pointed to the poor quality of a number of the items illustrated in the publicity material ( items which will apparently be in the sale ) , several of which date to the early years of this century . |
| 32 | The scheme involves replacing buildings , some of which date to the 1930s . |
| 33 | Listening to these ‘ old ’ recordings , most of which date from the early days of this century up to 1939 , one is conscious of a technical vocal mastery , musical understanding and intensity of communication that bridges the years . |
| 34 | The museum is housed in a former manor house , parts of which date from the 15th century including a Great Hall and an oakpanelled room . |
| 35 | As in so many villages , the parish church is the oldest building , the earliest parts of which date from the 13th century . |
| 36 | Many of the sounds we hear emanating from insects , for example , are only the bottom end of a spectrum of sound signals much of which lie above the auditory frequencies to which our ears are attuned . |
| 37 | From the same stable , come two rather different products , both of which conform to the National Curriculum and are well presented additions to the fast improving library of educational software available for the PC : — |
| 38 | In this , the markings consist of a pattern of dark spots all of which look like the dark pupil of the fish 's eye . |
| 39 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 40 | I have already argued ( Chapter l ) that capitalist development does not of itself lead to the political unification of the working class . |
| 41 | As he turned he caught a glimpse of something go past the open door , he dashed outside in time to see the figure of the old tramp going towards the slope as if to climb up and away . |
| 42 | Glory may have departed from this earth , but faint traces or soft echoes of it persist in the unlikeliest recesses of mind and landscape . |
| 43 | Psychiatrists , too , have been periodically sceptical of multiple personality disorder , though cases of it appear in the medical literature as far back as the mid-1600s . |
| 44 | Thereafter Anselm gave him such aid as he could against the despoilers of his see among the Norman barons who had recently penetrated into southern Wales as far as Pembroke . |
| 45 | Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason — in order to live — but the choice of job may be influenced more by necessity than choice . |
| 46 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
| 47 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 48 | And what millions of us watch on the big screen can influence whole areas of our lives — from our kitchen design , our holiday destination , our fantasy men , to what we eat and wear and how we 'd like to look . |
| 49 | Research evidence shows that , whilst human adults vary greatly in their intellectual curiosity and their levels of mental energy , most of us learn by the unconscious process of internalizing knowledge , skills or attitudes that have a more-or-less permanent effect on our subsequent behaviour . |
| 50 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
| 51 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 52 | A gene for celibacy is doomed to failure in the gene pool , except under very special circumstances such as we find in the social insects . |
| 53 | In between we pass through the inevitable stages of people disappearing because they know too much . |
| 54 | For example : The understood realities of redemptive love and a feeling of separation from them break into the narrative sequence of both versions . |
| 55 | This one has a commercial storyline : it is a modern ghost story in which research into the 17th century affects the present . |
| 56 | Corbett sang the psalms with them , feeling a great deal of the tension within him dissipate with the monotonous , harmonious chant . |
| 57 | Apis mellifera ( the common bee ) has to have a convention as to which angle in the vertical plane corresponds to this latter angle . |
| 58 | However , there are two other aspects on which counsel for the interim government has relied . |
| 59 | This publication , and the Directory of Mines and Quarries , on which work for the next edition continued , provide prime sources of basic data for the United Kingdom minerals industry . |
| 60 | So so which is your so so you go to you go to the local catholic church . |