Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members .
2 Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose .
3 By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda .
4 China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways .
5 The Court concluded that the Association 's arguments were directed largely to the benefits the agreement gave the UK market .
6 As soon as the election was completed and announced in the words " St Peter elects Lothar pope " , three doves flew into the place where the cardinals were assembled and when Lothar was singled out from the others the whitest of them settled on his right shoulder .
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