Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion allocated , it says , reflects an assessment of the activities undertaken by the manager in pursuit of the company 's investment objectives . |
| 2 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 3 | The General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) is designed to ensure that products placed on the market in member states are safe for consumers to use . |
| 4 | Three fingers whispered against the skin in the V of her blouse , reaching inside to move within the lace edge of her bra , pushing beneath the confinement of it with greater insistence , hot now and seeking more intimacy than that first feather-light touch had allowed . |
| 5 | The probability of the ‘ top ’ failure occurring is the sum of the values assigned to the events in the first level , and we can compute this if there are sufficient failure data to determine the latter directly ; if not then the analysis must proceed to lower levels of the tree . |
| 6 | The cutlers rioted against the system in 1756 . |
| 7 | These projects arose from the recommendations in the report of the Cockcroft Committee on the teaching of mathematics published at the beginning of 1982 . |
| 8 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 9 | Nine deputies resigned from the SDPP in November and December 1989 in protest against the expulsion from the party of six Kurdish deputies who had attended a Kurdish conference in Paris in October [ see p. 36988 ] . |
| 10 | In June , two million West Germans voted for the party in the European Parliament elections , sending Schönhuber and five colleagues to Strassburg . |
| 11 | Among the 50 or so booksellers and publishers attending a seminar on the new Single Market rules organised by the Börsenverein in Frankfurt in December the mood was described as ‘ agitated and despairing ’ . |
| 12 | But it is the photographs that hit home the hardest : prisoners paraded round the streets in execution parades , broken men with cardboard signs hung around their necks on TV ( post-Tiananmen ) and kneeling before firing squads . |
| 13 | Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine . |
| 14 | As to the latter he dismissed from consideration certain authorities relating to the admissibility in evidence of information obtained under powers similar to those which he had to consider , on the ground that the matters before him concerned , not the admissibility of replies to questions , but the right of the authorities to demand answers . |
| 15 | An anti-Fascist march soon after the Cable Street incident was the occasion for Mosley 's supporters to go on the rampage in the Mile End Road , smashing the windows of shops whose owners were Jewish and inflicting injury at random . |
| 16 | The two brothers parted at the docks in Lothern . |
| 17 | The Friar frowned , checked his ho-hoings and allowed his eyes to flicker from the enemies in front . |
| 18 | In addition , a source and application of funds statement ( an example of which is shown in Fig. 2.3 ) is usually produced to show the various sources of funds received during the period in question and how those funds have been spent . |
| 19 | The extension of this power in 1983 to cover elderly people in residential care and nursing homes led to the growth in the number of private home places , which more than doubled from 1979–84 , and was estimated to be continuing to rise ( Audit Commission , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Her teeth grimaced as she traced the bright orange outline , her eyes riveted on the reflection in her lime-green plastic hand-mirror . |
| 21 | According to Mikhail Afanas'yev , of the 600,000 German books received by the Library in the 1940s , no more than 30,000 were kept . |
| 22 | There were the usual long-hairs and burned-out heads hanging at the back in velvet trousers or dirty jeans , patchwork boots and sheepskin coats , discussing bus fares to Fez , Barclay James Harvest and bread . |
| 23 | No-one understood more clearly in November 1911 than Havelock Wilson that although the strike victory of that year represented a major gain to the union , the Shipping Federation 's abandonment of " the Ticket " was a reluctant one and that his battle against the managerial prerogatives claimed by the shipowners in manning their vessels and paying their crews was far from over . |
| 24 | I hope it is not too fanciful to think in terms of the old universities , the civic universities , the former colleges of advanced technology , and the polytechnics grouped like the colours in a spectrum each with its distinctive character but with no barriers . |
| 25 | Were Lascars and Chinamen to benefit from the improvements in food , accommodation , repatriation etc. which it provided for British seamen ? |
| 26 | One or two of the cars parked beneath the trees in the centre started up and moved off . |
| 27 | Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 28 | It is worth noting that many of the most interesting studies of the language/ethnicity relationship are not quantitative at all , but focus qualitatively on the social meaning which bi- and multi-lingual speakers associate with the codes in their repertoire ( see further 8.3 ) . |
| 29 | It may be true that Satan and the demons plot against the church in hellish councils , but we do not really know . |
| 30 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |