Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management . |
| 2 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
| 3 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 4 | We started our 1964 test with the words : ‘ Sun-capped Dolomites and the distant roar and squeal of one of the works rally cars scrambling its way up the Gavia Pass — this is perhaps the image that some people have of the big Austin-Healey at work . |
| 5 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 6 | The way we have chosen the symbols T and S also means , conveniently , that trajectories threading their way through the top face of the box B according to some sequence of Ts and Ss , make the same sequence of passes through the tubes , T and S. |
| 7 | Being Saturday , there were a number of burly walkers picking their way over the granite from both directions which , unlike the presence of the bermuda-shorted brigade puffing their way up the other side of Ben Nevis , was curiously comforting . |
| 8 | The function of adjudication is the determination of the rights and duties of the parties presenting their dispute to the tribunal . |
| 9 | Up to 1988 life assurance companies were gaining ground on pension funds , with individual life assurance premiums doubling their share of the personal savings market to 1988 . |
| 10 | And in an effort to keep up with the rival performance claims of manufacturers running its database for the purposes of TPC-A and TPC-B benchmarking the company has put together a comparison table : |
| 11 | The six clients attending our group at the Bristol Eating Disorder Clinic had been referred by their GPs . |
| 12 | There are lots of new opportunities coming your way in the year ahead , but you must move quickly to take advantage of them or unscrupulous colleagues and rivals will get there before you . |
| 13 | There are lots of new opportunities coming your way in the year ahead , but you must move quickly to take advantage of them or unscrupulous colleagues and rivals will get there before you . |
| 14 | Well , the Doc Marten has now been granted official recognition — it 's one of the words making its debut in the new Shorter Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 15 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |
| 16 | WALES , the Soviet Union and West Germany are three new nations making their debut at the 15th Hong Kong Sevens , to be staged from 31 March to 1 April next year . |
| 17 | Indeed , none of the candidates sitting their referral for the first time passed . |
| 18 | I sat in front of him watching as he ate , my eyes following his hand from the moment his fingers plunged into the bowl until it rose into the air , and carried the food into his mouth . |
| 19 | Among the companies developing their business on the technology are Celgene Corporation of Warren , New Jersey , and Sepracor of Marlborough , Massachusetts . |
| 20 | ‘ So do you still find anything suspicious in the circumstances surrounding your discovery of the yacht Hirondelle ? ’ |
| 21 | Now pyramids spring into view , wondrous and ancient temples , strings of camels wending their way through the desert — ever picturesque , ever supercilious . |
| 22 | A dispute with the local rector and manager led to a group of parents withdrawing their support from the school and coming together to form the Dalkey School Project . |
| 23 | Visitors making their way to the upper levels . |
| 24 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , a sturdy member of the tiny band of small UK computer and software companies making their mark across the Atlantic , reports from its Mountain View , California Insignia Solutions Inc base that it has raised $4.75m in ‘ mezzanine ’ financing from Technology Venture Investors of Menlo Park , California , which gets one seat on the board of the High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire company 's board ; the investment is its first in a foreign company . |
| 25 | Torquil Cowan , head of Longfield comprehensive in Darlington , has already written to some parents voicing his concern about the number of children roving the streets . |
| 26 | And then the railway lines themselves , snaking out secretly and backwards and then suddenly fanning out into a thousand arteries of shining black steel leaping through London and beyond to the places you can only imagine , the lines pulsing her brain with the excitement of where they 're going . |
| 27 | What follows is a consideration of a few vital food elements outlining their importance to the health of older people , and looking at the effect that dietary deficiency might have on what have hitherto been considered normal factors in the ageing process . |
| 28 | Iliescu resigned his party posts following his assumption of the presidency and asked Roman to form a government . |
| 29 | In Dunlop 's conception of an interdependent industrial relations system three principal actors , namely workers , managers — as well as their representative organisations — together with certain state agencies , all interact to establish a network of rules governing their relationship in the workplace , the rules being the output of the system . |
| 30 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |