Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | GHI Advice : If you 'd like a copy of Practical Guide for Asthmatics , send a cheque for £1.75 made out to the Good Housekeeping Institute ( Asthma ) , 72 Broadwick St , London W1V 2BP . |
| 2 | Three hundred tons of fish arrived daily from the western fishing ports . |
| 3 | This Act introduced the Rate Support Grant , made LEAs ( rather than central government ) responsible for paying for school meals and milk , and allocated funds ( under Section 11 ) to local authorities for payment of staff employed specifically for the education and welfare of immigrants . |
| 4 | A lot of people ran away with the idea that they were Pacifists , but so far as he was concerned that was not true . |
| 5 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 6 | The Pumphouse in Liverpool 's Albert Dock claimed its busiest day ever as droves of people poured in to The Mersey Regional Health Authority-sponsored event was one of many Drinkwise Day events arranged around the country yesterday . |
| 7 | On March 3 several tens of thousands of people demonstrated peacefully in the capital , Bamako , in support of multiparty politics and an end to " rule by violence " . |
| 8 | Cromwell destroyed that liberty : he appointed twenty-seven fit and proper persons — schoolmasters , lawyers , ministers of religion , doctors ( the sort of people found nowadays on the regulatory bodies for broadcasting and video ) to censor public reading . |
| 9 | There were 9 separate incidents in Oxford on saturday night and crowds of people turned up on the Blackbird Leys estate and in Rosehill to watch the stolen car displays . |
| 10 | There were 9 separate incidents in Oxford on saturday night and crowds of people turned up on the Blackbird Leys estate and in Rosehill to watch the stolen car displays . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people turned out for the funeral of the PC Patrick Dunne , who was shot dead on duty in South London . |
| 12 | Thousands of people turned out at the Royal Showground today to protest against a private members bill which aims to abolish blood sports . |
| 13 | I think it 's the odour of sanctity the atmosphere of a nice church and nice vicar and lots of people joined together with the same idea |
| 14 | There is no evidence that the Ministry of Works spent more on the public sewers than on the helpless , but they can scarcely have expended less money or effort on them . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I will never get it clean ! ’ ran through her mind , but already there was worse to witness for a plate of spinach was already spattered on the tiles of the fireplace and a bowl of zucchini sailed out of the window . |
| 16 | Vern Schuppan , not content with building 50 road-going Porsche 962s , will run two rebodied , all-synthetic 962s at Le Mans this year with chassis lifted directly from the road car . |
| 17 | Kevin Feeny at Warburg Securities is looking for £242m against £183m with £650m pencilled in for the year . |
| 18 | Currently , records back to 1986 are on the system , and retrospective cataloguing will be carried out from data picked up at the loans desk when books are issued , so that we will have records for all material in current use . |
| 19 | They follow the Cheque Act hurried through Parliament just before MPs broke up for the election . |
| 20 | These objects will be able to link to data stored anywhere in the enterprise using the company 's OpenODB object-oriented database . |
| 21 | It is likely that the majority of the A.A. claims related to aircraft shot down by the fighters but also fired on by the guns — possibly including some of the Hurricanes ! |