Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was crude and probably impracticable , but it embodied an idea that has now come into its own in the age of the silicon chip . |
| 2 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 3 | The notoriously media-shy financier has come into his own in the last ten years as one of the most successful behind-the-scenes advisors in the British art world . |
| 4 | Tiny particles of uranium oxide , containing radioactive isotopes of caesium , strontium and plutonium , had been scattered in their millions over the surrounding countryside . |
| 5 | Out in the lake the gulls wheeled and scolded above their young on the pile of reeds ringed with rocks that formed Seagull Island . |
| 6 | Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses . |
| 7 | For example , in Romeo and Juliet this aspect of his choreography is seen at its finest in the pas de trois fur Romeo , Mercutio and Benvolio before they enter the Capulet ball . |
| 8 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
| 9 | It is an interesting town with several historical buildings including the Old Hall , where Mary Queen of Scots once stayed , and a wealth of fine Georgian architecture seen at its best in the famous Crescent . |
| 10 | Podvig , also prominent in the Crime and Punishment notebooks , gets relegated in the final text to the Epilogue where it is seen at its simplest in the mitigating circumstance that the murderer is discovered at his trial to have burnt himself rescuing two little children from a blazing house . |
| 11 | What conflicts have you had with your intended in the past and how did you ( as an individual ) handle them ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The figures are based on my own in the 1970s and now bear no relation to the present day , but they serve as a broad outline . |
| 16 | It was impossible for him to have escaped on his own for the door was secured by a wedge , pushed through a hasp to hold the hinged staple in place . |
| 17 | Likewise , less expensive , sparkling wines from farther afield are also being brought into their own by the champagne houses ' hauteur . |
| 18 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 19 | Matey was seated on her own in the parlour , darning , and there was no sign of McAllister . |
| 20 | Was it a mania for translating bishops — represented at its oddest in the idea that it was sensible at the age of 73 to move the revered George Bell to one of these sees ? |
| 21 | Heather Calzini spent thousands of pounds looking for Milliegrey , worth around £60,000 and pregnant when she was taken from her stable in the dead of night . |
| 22 | Dot tried not to mind being left on her own in the basement . |
| 23 | This may mean that a mother is left on her own in the ward , while all the other mothers are sitting there nursing their babies . |
| 24 | When I was left on my own after the death of Uncle , my beasts became my family , I suppose . |
| 25 | Home banking is being taken to its ultimate with the launch of Midland 's Firstdirect — the bank without branches . |
| 26 | It would be another woman from Naledi looking for work as a maid : dressed in her best in the blaring midday heat : thick cardigan and skirt , heavy shoes . |
| 27 | 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 . |