Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulses of energy coursed down the beam . |
| 2 | PLATO 'S WORDS of wisdom echo down the centuries : |
| 3 | One of the agents observing some fragments of rock clattering down the shaft and falling around him , warned , " take care or you will have your brains knocked out . " |
| 4 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 5 | He now faces seven months in prison serving out the rest of an old jail term , Durham Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 6 | Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack . |
| 7 | By the last decade of Edward III 's reign it had become customary for the contracts of service to specify how the gains of war were to be divided . |
| 8 | There were signs of reluctance to take seriously the need for revival of activity at the local level to overthrow apprenticeship before its due term under the act of 1833 . |
| 9 | Swooping patterns of energy tingled down the labyrinths of her nerves . |
| 10 | Thunder rumbled high above us , the clouds reaching down towards us , wisps of mist sweeping down the valley . |
| 11 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 12 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 13 | Areas of study reflect both the old and the new concerns : they range from head-counting to Grand Theory ; they cover religious organisations and their power structures ; they examine processes such as conversion , apostasy , institutionalisation , bureaucratisation , the growth of charisma and its rationalisation ; typological distinctions are drawn ( such as those between church , denomination and sect ) ; the relationship between religion and other areas of society ( the family , education , economy and , especially , politics ) is examined from a number of angles at a number of levels ; and there is also developing an increasing number of specialist ‘ sub-disciplines ’ — such as the sociologies of Catholicism , secularism , the ministry , gender and religion , and new religious movements . |
| 14 | O break instead our British wills of steel Cast out the traitor in our hearts , and slay The coward in our guts ; and turn , and kneel , And listen , and obey . |
| 15 | When the forest is gone , the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mould is evaporated , and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted . |
| 16 | It was raining , thin trickles of water sliding down the window , tainting the air with dampness . |
| 17 | However , Baker had to call on his years of experience to shake off the gritty Ballymena man , who made all the running , but faltered over the final ends . |
| 18 | You then scan your image using each of the filters in turn saving out the images . |
| 19 | A team of Education Ministers will have been locked up together for days or even weeks on end to thrash out the details of the Bill . |
| 20 | New codes of practice set out the standards of service to expect . |
| 21 | Centralized state control of the economy had proved grossly inefficient , fostered privilege and corruption , and given rise to a ‘ totalitarian ’ party dictatorship whose terrifying powers of coercion controlled even the innermost thoughts of its citizens . |
| 22 | When , in June 1967 , the Beatles ' ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ was released , UFO , with its light shows , and globules of colour spewing down the old Irish walls , seemed the natural place to go and listen to it . |
| 23 | With strong evidence that the disclosures to date represent only the tip of the iceberg , the State President 's claim that a commission of inquiry would create a climate of distrust verges on self-parody . |
| 24 | Drops of water trickle down the panes of glass . |
| 25 | The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes . |
| 26 | Rivulets of water coursed down the panes , puddling on the sill . |
| 27 | I gaze out through the steam and the rivulets of water running down the glass of the shower cabinet . |
| 28 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |
| 29 | Wheezes of laughter wafted down the telephone line . |
| 30 | Whether a guillotine has been imposed or not , the Speaker has the power to select and group amendments in order to cut down the number and to confine debate to the salient points , but even with this power of Speaker 's selection , a guillotine may mean that blocks of amendments are never reached . |