Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 , ICI produced nearly half of the global output of the most common halon gas . |
| 2 | We have already been in touch with two GP practices in Middlesbrough to see how much of the medical history we can pick up , and shall be doing the same in Sunderland . |
| 3 | He even offered to continue to supply arms — thought at this time the new regime was trying to get the United States to buy back some of the more expensive equipment that the Shah had purchased . |
| 4 | We had arrived in Indonesia speaking very little of the language , with 20,000 feet of film stock and what was left of Ringo 's £2,000 , intending to film our search for the Bird of Paradise with the Bugis pirates aboard the schooners which Alfred Wallace himself had sailed in 125 years before us . |
| 5 | Mr Vinct brought in some of the ‘ Daily Service ’ folk to see me and to tell me about their work . |
| 6 | The Kremlin said later that during the course of the conversation , Mr Yeltsin had invited Mr Clinton to a Moscow summit and had also suggested further reductions in nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | The new Ludwig museum in Koblenz adds yet another to the many showcases for the Ludwig Collection that dot the map of Europe . |
| 8 | There is also footage of steam locomotives in action at Dublin , Dun Laoghaire , Bray and Cork to name just some of the locations featured in this unique video . |
| 9 | A 180 score and 19 dart checkout by R McLarnon plus wins by P McGleave , G McCormick and J Reynolds proved too much for the host side . |
| 10 | It is relieved that the most the Americans now want ( apart from money , naturally , of which the Koreans are putting up $220m ) is for Korea to take over more of the job of defending itself , thus freeing American troops and equipment based in Korea for duty in the Gulf . |
| 11 | It is interesting that Leapor makes so little of the high perspective . |
| 12 | Mr Hook pointed out many of the Division One sides were concentrated round the south-east , which meant they had less travelling expenses . |
| 13 | But at a time when tunes from bourgeois sources were increasingly popular and when traditional , so called ‘ folk ’ tunes were in decline , certainly in the music hall , Corvan used comparatively few of the former and actively retained many of the latter . |
| 14 | Please let Josephine Williams know how many of the vouchers issued to new members to attend a rally were actually presented — we need to assess the popularity and cost of this scheme for future plans . |
| 15 | Josie fluffed out some of the tail-feathers on a costume for the upcoming number , and gave the matter some thought . |
| 16 | She turned to see Sendei gulping down more of the pink drink . |
| 17 | Holding the gipsy girl 's hand , Carrie answered as many of the questions that crowded Anna 's confused mind as she could . |
| 18 | Winchelsea had ceased to function and , although Rye carried away some of the iron from the Weald , the trade went increasingly in ships from other ports . |
| 19 | Carrie picked up some of the books . |
| 20 | The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself . |
| 21 | But America has always wanted Israel to give up some of the occupied territory , and has grown keener since the start of a desperate revolt by the occupied people . |
| 22 | Property Department 's Shona Jennings eyes up some of the plastic cups collected at Drummond House . |
| 23 | In the same way , Illich argues that much of the illness in contemporary society is due to the environment . |
| 24 | Cooke noted how many of the examples were rather parochial in being drawn largely from drainage basin , slope and channel studies in geomorphology and hydrology and to a lesser extent from atmospheric research , so that the reader was left to determine how systems related to the biosphere and to the pedosphere . |
| 25 | Callaghan tinkered very little with the machinery of government apart from breaking off a chunk of the Department of the Environment and re-creating a separate Transport Ministry in his ministerial reshuffle of September 1976 . |
| 26 | Typically , neither Frank nor Jack knew too much about the prostate gland , nor that it could be affected by disease , until it happened to them . |
| 27 | Paul McCartney owns practically all of the Mull Of Kintyre . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the exertions of Peachtree proved too much for the four and they were all defeated by the quarter-final stage . |
| 29 | Now the explicit policy aim for schools is much more a directly vocational one , and the article by Moore traces out some of the connections between education , qualifications and the labour markets young people are seeking to enter . |
| 30 | Why have SSDs achieved so little despite the massive increase in resources allocated to them since they were first established in 1971 ? |