Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny particles of uranium oxide , containing radioactive isotopes of caesium , strontium and plutonium , had been scattered in their millions over the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 3 | In relation to Jesus , popular tradition has imposed upon him one of the oldest and most archetypal of functions — that of the eternal adversary , the dark opposite , the embodiment of all the vices and iniquities that the hero is not . |
| 4 | It was his battalion 's heroic defence of their positions on the Basra to Baghdad road , when the rats from Iran had swarmed in their thousands from the marshlands , that had given him his present renown . |
| 5 | Understandably , these fires — which at thirty shillings were cheap to buy and easy to install — were widely sold in their millions in the postwar years . |
| 6 | Tourists are now bused in their thousands to the Sellafield Visitors ' Centre , where all the slick techniques of modern exhibitions are brought to bear on radioactivity . |
| 7 | His maximum brought with it one of the fastest race times ever seen in Swindon . |
| 8 | Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life ? |
| 9 | Glochidia are the larvae ( young stages ) of Swan Mussels , which , when released in their thousands by the adults during breeding , must find a ‘ host ’ fish upon which to settle , or they will die . |