Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If five peaks were set up they could provide the basis for the tentacles of hydra , or for the fingers in the early development of the human hand . |
| 2 | He sat at his desk , huddled in his great cloak , oblivious to the cold draughts which came under the door or through the cracks in the wooden shutters on the window . |
| 3 | We do not , however , know whether this reflects voluntary behaviour , whether it is a result of deficiencies of the individuals concerned , or of the situation in the local/occupational labour market in which they are located . |
| 4 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 5 | Is it the sullen sky , small and mean in winter , the rank dank smell of piss sharp through your nostrils when you walk below the tracks at Gospel Oak or beneath the highway in the Edgware Road ? |
| 6 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point means that the pedestrian tried or succeeded in walking across the carriageway i.e. from footpath to footpath or along the carriageway in the same direction as the traffic flow . |
| 7 | John Keane opted to convey through ironic allegory the greater message of the human race , of only through waiting , with the army , in the Saudi Arabian desert , or with the RAF in the bar of the five star Sheraton Hotel in Bahrain ; a more telling topic than might be imagined , since alcohol is forbidden in Saudi Arabia . |
| 8 | John Keane opted to convey through ironic allegory the greater message of the human race , of only through waiting , with the army , in the Saudi Arabian desert , or with the RAF in the bar of the five star Sheraton Hotel in Bahrain ; a more telling topic than might be imagined , since alcohol is forbidden in Saudi Arabia . |
| 9 | Any terms proposed or to be proposed by or to the authority in the course of negotiations for a contract for the acquisition or disposal of property or the supply of goods or services . |
| 10 | The alternative version has it as a description of the style of the painting ( and it makes no difference here whether the recumbent posture belongs to the living sitter or to the image in the finished picture ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll sleep on the floor or on the seats in the lounge , or anywhere . |
| 12 | If you were now talking to each other tonight round the table in the restaurant or at the bar in the hotel okay . |
| 13 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 14 | There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts . |
| 15 | The four companies revealed substantial losses in the half year to September , as the public reaction to the corruption allegations grew , and as the mood in the Tokyo exchange remained subdued by the property price collapse afflicting the country . |
| 16 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 17 | As most pancreatitis episodes in men are caused by alcohol abuse , and as the increase in the incidence of pancreatitis discharges took place particularly in men between 25–64 years of age , and this group consumes most of the alcohol in the country , it is suggested that the increased alcohol consumption and the increased incidence of pancreatitis discharges may have a causal relation . |
| 18 | After deductions for loans from the subsidiary to Cabra , and for the stake in the Fulham ground , the net cost to Chelsea would be about £10m . |
| 19 | This is particularly true of the value of votes for the smaller parties of the centre — the Liberal Party , the SDP and now the Liberal Democrats ; and of the value of votes for Labour in the South and for the Conservatives in the North and in Scotland . |
| 20 | Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail . |
| 21 | The municipal railings had been taken away for the war effort and through the gaps in the makeshift fence of galvanised iron he saw a tramp in an army greatcoat sitting on a green bench . |
| 22 | Inside our flat , small drifts of this sand began to blow in under the doors and through the cracks in the window frames . |
| 23 | He looked into the wardrobes and through the drawers in the dressing-table and tallboy . |
| 24 | Fish excrete both from their vents and through the gills in the form of ammonia . |
| 25 | The Newry celebrations start this evening with a special dinner at the Mourne Country Hotel , and after the entertainment in the marquees ( 2–15pm ) and the unveiling of the plaque on Saturday afternoon , the Wild Geese sky-diving team will land with the match-ball in time for the 3pm start . |
| 26 | And after the affair in the Beqa'a Valley , he was trusted . |
| 27 | And despite the reduction in the annual budget which comes from this stretching out , the programme is still a target for budget-cutters . |
| 28 | Patients with active duodenitis had comparable proportions of cases with gastric H pylori , regardless of NSAID intake , and despite the differences in the overall prevalence of H pylori in the presence or absence of NSAID . |
| 29 | Despite the conversion of some entire communities in Asia Minor to the sect , and despite the advocacy in the West given by their most eminent convert Tertullian , the great church did not concede recognition . |
| 30 | The characteristics of both the phonemes and of the things in the natural world that are selected for specific purposes are arbitrary in themselves but they become meaningful when contrasted with others to form a set . |