Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb -s] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the party season , so Louise Pickford takes our favourite winter fruits and gets cracking with the nuts to produce a selection of Christmas canapés and two delicious dishes |
| 2 | Ariel clasps Roukoubé and runs towards the sea ; the shadows conceal her , she hears the shot , but then she splashes into the shoals and turns to run along the tideline to keep her bearings in the dark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We are made to share his view , and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good . |
| 5 | Mr Hartley 's mother Isabel said : ‘ He often has barbecues and goes swimming at the river when it 's hot . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She has been a civil servant for over 30 years and has worked at the town 's county court for 24 years . |
| 12 | She has been a keen walker and rock climber for many years and has climbed in the Alps , Pyrenees and Dolomites . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Later came the task of packing the barbecue and hampers on to the trailer which also carried the rafts , and while Silas and Matt stored smaller items away the two raft guides used pails and mops to wash over the floor with hot water . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Product of York and North Yorkshire Schools representative teams , he has signed on profesional terms and has played in the reserves . |
| 17 | If the Society shall at any time convert the Garden into buildings for habitations or to any other uses , save such as are necessary for a physic Garden , for the culture , planting and preserving of trees , plants and flowers , and such like purposes , then it shall be lawful for Sir Hans Sloane , his heirs and assigns to enter upon the premises and to hold the same for the use and benefit and in trust for the said president , Council and Fellows of the Royal Society , subject to the same rent and to the delivery of specimens of plants . |
| 18 | Situated on the coastline of Omura Bay near the City of Nagasaki , the town of Huis ten Bosch covers an area of 1.5 million square metres and has risen from the ground in less than eight years . |
| 19 | Lack of space in which to build laterally resulted in this characteristic Edinburgh townscape of early tower blocks , often with additional lower floors invisible from the street , clinging to the cliffs and reached through narrow wynds , vennels and closes overshadowed by the dark flanks of buildings stained by the smoke of those ‘ Auld Reekie ’ years . |
| 20 | Daniel Day-Lewis grabs the part of Hawkeye with both hands and becomes transformed as the buckskin-clad , 18th century equivalent of Rambo , with knife and tomahawk ready . |
| 21 | The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill . |
| 22 | The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there . |
| 23 | " What Spanish regime " , he enquired rhetorically , " at any time , has been more productive in carrying out its tasks and has created for the Nation , in any respect , wealth comparable to that created up to now ? " |
| 24 | There were , he said , 180 parks , forests and chases belonging to the queen , and the rights proposed to be leased in them were worth far more than £40,000 a year . |
| 25 | He has sought treatment on a number of occasions and has come to the conclusion that he can not break the habit and that what he needs and wants is a maintenance regime , preferably on heroin — something that the medical profession in Wirral does not want to give him . |
| 26 | Many walkers cross its famous ‘ Bad Step ’ just above the waters of Loch Scavaig , but few scramble up its slabs and buttresses to take in the view of Coruisk and its magnificent amphitheatre of black , jagged peaks — arguably the finest viewpoint of Skye . |