Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara Craig as well as Daphne Park returned for the Gaudy for the years 1960–5 . |
| 2 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 3 | We suggest an alternative wording for the second of the proposals : ‘ - to recycle valuable coastal land which has become redundant , e.g. the regeneration of rundown coastal towns and ports ; and … ’ |
| 4 | The area under the peak corresponding to the actin cable is about 5 times that for the largest of the peaks corresponding to cortical actin elsewhere . |
| 5 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 6 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 7 | Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant . |
| 8 | Her hands were shaking as she reached for the first of the envelopes . |
| 9 | Conservative Anglicans , unable to endorse its open approach in matters of religion , founded a rival organisation in 1811 : the National Society for the Provision of Education for the Poor on the Principles of the Established Church . |
| 10 | There is greater awareness amongst those who work with and for the elderly of the ways in which we manufacture social and economic dependency . |
| 11 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 12 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 13 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 14 | I could imagine my aunt as a young girl asking for the latest of the books for birthday or Christmas until she had them all . |
| 15 | 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 . |
| 16 | Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis . |
| 17 | Hill gradually moves up the grid … he 's second for the last of the starts but his engine is n't quite powerful enough and comes home in fourth spot … |
| 18 | On 16 April , the day of the vigil , I put on my smart suit for the last of the interviews and went into work to look through the papers . |
| 19 | Separated bridles linked to two lines enabled this American invention to be positioned within reasonable accuracy over any likely shipwreck victim.The kite was star shaped and would thus lack the refinement of current designs ; but nevertheless , it must be credited as the first of the steerables . |
| 20 | The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis . |
| 21 | As the last of the lorries went in , the trouble started . |
| 22 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 23 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 24 | As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate . |
| 25 | Balor gave a last bubbling cry and a sudden ripple of triumph went through the Trees as the farthest of the Oaks pulled free an arm and held it aloft , a bloody stump , a torn-off gobbet of flesh . |
| 26 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 27 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 28 | The writings of the rabbis repeatedly maintain that the Holy spirit departed from Israel after the last of the prophets , Haggai , Zechariah and Malachi ( e.g. T. Sota 13:2 ) . |
| 29 | The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) . |
| 30 | So , a victory for Oxford United ; it came after a few of the supporters had left the ground , it came in injury time — Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil , reporting on the match , a very happy Nick Harris . |