Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 2 | This ringwork is the most impressive of a series of earthworks stretching away west of the church towards the village . |
| 3 | The offer is only open while stocks last so post off the order form today . |
| 4 | This makes Britain in autumn a very special place as a staging post for birds flying further south to the Mediterranean and Africa and as a winter home for many others . |
| 5 | But the figures tell only part of the story . |
| 6 | A representative from each subject ( module grouping ) collates room requirements ( overhead projectors , etc. ) and set requirements ( number of sets and preferred times , although there are rules guiding alternative set times to ensure even use of the teaching week , and balanced numbers in all sets of all modules ) . |
| 7 | But feeble personalities explain only part of the Social Democrats ' woes . |
| 8 | However , these rules and formally laid down procedures tell only part of the story . |
| 9 | Cushendall police requested further assistance in the Glengariff area at 1345 where more livestock had become cut off by the flood waters . |
| 10 | She could hear Maria clattering about with her water buckets in the yard and far off church bells ringing somewhere north of the Arno . |
| 11 | Those training activities represent only part of the work in which Roy Knott and his team are involved . |
| 12 | Flowers and creepers became almost part of the architecture . |
| 13 | Thus the understanding of glacial landforms such as cirques required further knowledge of the processes of ice movement and glacial erosion and the interpretation of planation surfaces as having been produced by marine erosion required knowledge of the nature and rate of processes of coastal erosion . |