Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then I was able to put in drops of blood and nasty black and white pictures and get rid of the Paisley patterns and bindweed round the edge of pages everywhere . ’ |
| 2 | The majority of studies have been in urban areas and have focused on the activities of building societies and finance institutions in the private sector ( Ford 1975 ; Boddy 1976 ; P. R. Williams 1976 , 1978 ; Short 1978 ) , and on the activities of housing managers in the public sector ( Gray 1976a , 1976b ; Paris and Lambert 1979 ) . |
| 3 | This is despite the fact that the veto clause is standard in private companies and had existed within the client company Articles of Association since the incorporation in 1979 . |
| 4 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |
| 5 | The cluster I found particularly er important and so like yourself the Aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it , it 's just a matter of practice erm the Aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously |
| 6 | Bishop Jon , after a punishing excursion in Thorfinn 's company to Buchan , rode south to Brechin to bathe his feet and get rid of the dust in his throat and found Prior Tuathal from Fife already there , with the Abbot and Malpedar the Mormaer . |
| 7 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 8 | In short , they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody . |
| 9 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
| 10 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |
| 11 | With a background in ICI 's pharmaceutical and paints operations , he told The Economist a year ago that a case could be made for hanging onto the jewels and getting rid of the tarnished tinsel . |
| 12 | Now contrary to what we 'd been informed erm the problem occurred over the last couple of days and having spoken to the ladies in the laboratory , the problem has n't been purely on line five machine . |
| 13 | I always donate to these organisations and have benefited to the extent that organisations like THT , Body Positive and LAGER have made the general public aware of the infection and have made some employers take it into account . |
| 14 | This combined with the smell of their droppings and the musky odour of the birds themselves , makes such colonies very smelly places and has led to the suggestion that the birds may use the smell to guide themselves back to it through the darkness of night . |
| 15 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 16 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 17 | She had seen pictures in books and on television of gaudily painted narrow boats and had warmed to the romantic life they portrayed . |
| 18 | Mark , 27 , who is married with two children , has been a soldier for nine years and has served with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers . |
| 19 | With the spread of home ownership , a process that began in earnest during the inter-war years and has accelerated since the 1960s , the passing on of the family home will become an increasingly important aspect of defining who owns what , and confirming the advantages enjoyed by some groups of the population . |
| 20 | She has been a civil servant for over 30 years and has worked at the town 's county court for 24 years . |
| 21 | She has been a keen walker and rock climber for many years and has climbed in the Alps , Pyrenees and Dolomites . |
| 22 | It mattered to Randolph Ash what a man was , though he could , without undue disturbance , have written that general pantechnicon of a sentence using other terms , phrases and rhythms and have come in the end to the same satisfactory evasive metaphor . |
| 23 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 24 | All this second-generation old school stuff is shite on wheels and has led to the emergence of the Old School Fool , a mug with a large disposable income who is prepared to cough up half a week 's wages for anything he perceives to be pre-Day-Glo sportswear . |
| 25 | In response to the prevailing economic conditions it has withdrawn from peripheral businesses and has focused on the core activities represented by its silver products . |
| 26 | When made into handbags , the leather ceased to exist as separate goods and became absorbed into the handbags . |
| 27 | They were Mr Gilbert , sound recordist Peter Edwards and cameraman Philip Bonham-Carter , both of whom are independent film-makers and have worked on the broadcast before . |
| 28 | The communiqué that was issued after the meeting noted that the talks had been ‘ frank and useful ’ and did not disguise the fact that there were still ‘ major differences ’ on a series of key issues ; but the two leaders had achieved a better understanding of their respective positions and had agreed on the importance of maintaining a ‘ constant dialogue ’ . |
| 29 | Subclone fragments were then sequenced in both directions using M13 universal and reverse sequencing primers and aligned based on the method of Staden using the GCG 's Fragment Assembly Programs ( 8 ) . |
| 30 | FOUR remand prisoners were on the run last night after they attacked prison officers and jumped handcuffed through the smashed window of a moving coach . |