Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He collaborated closely with the Russian ambassador , Count Ostern , and worked to secure a defensive alliance with Sweden ( 1766 ) , safeguard British trade , and prevent France 's resurgence in the Baltic by supporting the party of the Caps in their resistance to the pro-France Hats . |
| 2 | It is a policy profoundly opposed by the national Football Supporters Association ( FSA ) which recruits its members on a regional rather than a club basis and which aims to unite its fans in their love for the game rather than in their narrower club devotions . |
| 3 | But Daum coolly , cynically and calculatingly named the four foreigners in his squad from the start . |
| 4 | The collectors have now agreed a bequest that leaves the Icklingham bronzes in their will to the British Museum as part of an out-of-court settlement , dependent on their acceptance by the museum 's trustees . |
| 5 | This is speculative but they are on firmer ground when they point out that violent incidents were underreported both by referees in their correspondence with the FA and by the press . |
| 6 | Honey magazine recognized this and acted on it in an extraordinary way with the launch of the ‘ Honey boutiques ’ in the major conurbations , so that the groovy styles portrayed in the magazine could be had by hitherto deprived readers in whatever part of the sticks they had the misfortune to live , with no more trouble than a Saturday day return fare . |
| 7 | The affair came to a head in a series of by-elections in the early 1930s in which the press barons gave their support to Empire Crusade candidates in their fight against the official Conservative central office candidates . |
| 8 | He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree That we might die to sin and live to righteousness . |
| 9 | Remarkably , however , neither internal opinion reports nor the reports of the Sopade mentioned the passage on the Jews in their comments on the impact of Hitler 's speech . |
| 10 | My Sister was at Sandy , but up to her eyes in her work with the Maquis . |
| 11 | At a press briefing on May 1 a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that while Iran and Turkey shared common goals in their handling of the refugee crisis , Turkey wanted the allied forces to remain longer in border areas , while Iran preferred UN supervision . |
| 12 | This whole matter was destined to create much controversy and is addressed further below , but it is necessary here to note that the problem was of concern to the Rapporteur , Mr. Taborda Ferreira of Portugal , who expressed his anxieties in his commentary on the preliminary draft . |
| 13 | Gordon Lind , chairman of Monklands West Conservatives , claimed that Monklands had misused public funds in its pursuit of the paper and he said he would call on the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , and the local government Controller of Audit to investigate . |
| 14 | In the weeks following the general election the NLD adopted extremely cautious tactics in their dealings with the military . |
| 15 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |
| 16 | It appears that rather than allowing us to enter a realm of meditation and escapism so associated with abstraction these paintings are determined to make us face up to the ambiguities in our readings of the visual world . |
| 17 | ( This is a borderline case between normal and deviant justification , or rather it points to one of the many ambiguities in my formulation of the normal justification thesis . ) |
| 18 | Alois Spinner , 77 , left the diamonds and pearls in his will to the ‘ fair daughters ’ of his home town . |
| 19 | As the influence of other agencies of socialization and knowledge transmission such as the Church , schools , and political parties declines , the mass media become even more central in the creation of the ‘ images in our heads of the world outside ’ . |
| 20 | Hans Peter Feldmann , Rodney Graham and Allen Ruppersberg have also included words in their works in the past . |
| 21 | I 've had a good few warming-pans in my bed over the years . |
| 22 | She shared her home with a woman friend and was intensely secretive about her privacy , leaving complicated embargoes in her will on the publication of her letters , many of which she destroyed . |
| 23 | We had doubts in our minds about the strength of these children 's attachment to their adoptive parents and though our sample group is very small , we would like to pose the hypothesis that ‘ severing children 's meaningful emotional links with members of their birth families limits their capacity for full attachment to their new families ’ . |
| 24 | Her Majesty 's Inspectors in their report on the teaching of English published in 1987 were particularly concerned by the low standard of teaching for A level English : ‘ Teachers spend too much time scrutinizing past papers and then drilling students in what are taken to be the ‘ correct ’ answers . |
| 25 | The combination of utilitarian function , personal advertisement through statues and inscriptions , and florid architectural ornament is typical of imperial buildings in the Mediterranean provinces in their heyday from the late first century to the early third century AD . |
| 26 | The establishment of relatively uniform statutory procedures is particularly important in view of the wide disparities between individual schools in their policies on the sanction of exclusion . |
| 27 | The report also outlined areas in which implementation of the White Paper had been delayed , including the publication of strategic reviews of nuclear and renewable energy , both of which had been postponed , and the failure of many local authorities to publish plans for achieving the 25 per cent recycling target . |
| 28 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 29 | I fitted the brackets in their pairs to the top rails , grinding away the point on a plate sander . |
| 30 | Down one wall were full-length metal lockers with keys in their locks on the end of long thin chains so they looked like dog-tags . |