Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1983 election , more electors thought the Conservatives had the better policies than actually voted for the party . |
| 2 | North Tyneside MBC opposed both these developments pointing out that the Tyne Tunnel proposal in particular was for more square feet than currently existed in the whole of central North Shields . |
| 3 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 4 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 5 | Probably you know that , under the Parliament Act , Parliament lasts for five years unless sooner dissolved by the Crown , and that the Crown acts on the advice of the Government of the day . |
| 6 | Coleman was blamed for reducing the period of three years as originally fixed for the course of instruction in Vial 's time , to as little as three or four months , so that some men were sent out into practice at 19 , 18 , or even 17 years of age ( as a contrary example , Coleman 's nephew , E.C . |
| 7 | These days everyone seems to be hopping on and off jets if only to go to the Spanish holiday resorts , but I have never left these shores . |
| 8 | Ted Stanley used up two pints of bronze maggots while loose feeding at the opposite end of the car park bank and finished with a heavy mixed net of fish . |
| 9 | It was , it has the face value of one million pounds in physical terms , there is , in fact it is thought that there was a ten million pounds as well based on the same , on the same er principle . |
| 10 | It is important not to take a dogmatic stance with regard to the categorisation of terms as always concentrating on the nature of the breach . |
| 11 | Figure 3.1 clearly shows production processes and relations as intimately linked with the circulation of capital and the consumption of commodities . |
| 12 | After all , she and the Queen had always happily nattered away for hours while out riding around the castle estate that runs along the River Dee . |
| 13 | Labour mobility has been achieved by market mechanisms , and training and re-training of redundant workers has assumed greater proportions than ever envisaged by the original Act . |
| 14 | A virtually foolproof method , since one roots potential cuttings while still attached to the parent plant . |
| 15 | For many women , bringing up children while also working outside the home represents the ultimate fulfilling lifestyle — as well as contributing towards ( or solely providing ) financial security for the family . |
| 16 | ROS membranes were prepared from freshly dissected bovine retinae as previously described in the presence of proteolytic inhibitors : 0.1mM DFP , 5μgml -1 aprotinin , 2μgml -1 leupeptin , and 2μgml -1 pepstatin . |
| 17 | Lot seventy does not have a horn with it but Lot ninety two , the good news is it does have a reproducer er Lot one hundred and eleven should have a black dot against it to indicate that it will be removed from the premises if not cleared within the stated time Lot one seven four is withdrawn one nine one the estimate should read eight to twelve hundred and finally Lot one nine eight is withdrawn . |
| 18 | They realize , as feminists , the extent to which this Christian story has hurt women , indeed how far the fact that God has been seen as ‘ male ’ in the west has served to undermine a sense of women as also made in the image of God . |
| 19 | Marxist feminism is rather more complicated in that it sees the oppression of women as inextricably linked to the class system . |
| 20 | It is extremely important to the case for assessing whether we should proceed with the King 's Cross proposals as currently enshrined in the Bill . |
| 21 | You know how some sports cars manage to look like they are doing about a hundred miles while still parked at the kerb ? |