Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister opened the debate , he made it clear that he had sensed right the mood of the House and of the British people . |
| 2 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 3 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 4 | This is especially true of those , often identified as burgi , which protected only a very small part of the settlement ( p. 35 below ) ; but even where larger areas were enclosed , most included only a fraction of the total , as for example at Catterick , Ilchester and Water Newton , where the inhabited extra-mural areas extended for considerable distances . |
| 5 | Again just two lanes open can slow things and a quick glance elsewhere well no real troubles reported just a look at the A One Stanford still the roadworks on the go there both north and south will slow things down . |
| 6 | A study of the 1961 hurricane " Carla " and the 1963 hurricane " Cindy " in the southern United States showed that they had considerably modified both the form of the affected coastline and the distribution of sediments there . |
| 7 | If other variables , such as blood pressure response , exercise duration and induced ventricular ectopics or arrhythmias , are included then the value of the test as a prognostic indicator increases markedly . |
| 8 | I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom . |
| 9 | And they do actually now add , they only used to give you Italian terms , they 've now add added quite a lot of the French ones and the German ones . |
| 10 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 11 | Having spent hours daydreaming about Portugal and Dom João , she had given scarcely a thought to the alternative . |
| 12 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 13 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 14 | ( Edited by Derek Hodgson , available from Yorkshire , CCC , ) The late withdrawal of Craig McDermott from the Yorkshire staff has caused embarrassment and inconvenience in several quarters ; at the ‘ Welcome to Craig McDermott ’ dinner which was held recently in Leeds United 's banqueting suite , there was one conspicuous absentee , and now the Australian fast bowler has made rather a mess of the Yorkshire yearbook . |
| 15 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 16 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 17 | First of all I was invited to lunch in Leeds and they sent the helicopter for me , piloted by Captain John Leeson , who had done all the flying for the aerial shots in the film . |
| 18 | The widening of the franchise in the nineteenth century , House of Lords reform , and votes for women in the twentieth — these are issues that aroused great emotion and were fiercely opposed but on which reform was accepted once the government of the day had got the measure accepted by Parliament . |
| 19 | However if the trailer is detached deliberately the application of the Partial Indemnity ’ Clause will be governed by the cover applying to the trailer . |
| 20 | It turns out that the recording was made nearly a month before the procession , and a contemporary advertisement shows that the record was heard during the Royal Progress through London on 23 June . |
| 21 | The Docks Board was the biggest company in the ports industry and with its Southampton operations and its Humber and South Wales ports had secured about a quarter of the market . |
| 22 | It was the bus that we had seen twice every day for the last three days , making its regular coastal run between Bulukumba and Makassar . |
| 23 | In the two months since I installed the anemone it has visited virtually every area of the tank , often selecting the most uncomfortable looking places to stay , including perching on the very top of a rather spiky coral ‘ tree ’ . |
| 24 | Mind you the , the erm , the wages had risen quite a bit during the time . |
| 25 | Conversely , if the dependence thesis is accepted then the case for the normal justification thesis becomes very strong . |
| 26 | The big dyeing job was done twice a year at the hairdresser 's , but every month or so in between , Mrs Wormwood used to freshen it up by giving it a rinse in the washbasin with something called PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG . |
| 27 | Some sole practitioners pointed out their accountants already visited twice a year at the firms ' request , but the majority complained about the cost of the proposal and queried whether or not the whole profession would be required to comply . |
| 28 | At a three day event , you 've already done quite a distance by the time you get to do the course ! |
| 29 | They had done virtually no research on the elasticity of demand , relying as usual on their intuition and experience , but in this case intuition may not have played them entirely false . |
| 30 | The two fresh contenders of greatest interest , if only because they were not even in the side when Scotland trounced Ireland at Murrayfield , are Peter Clohessy on the tight-head — a player who incurred the wrath of Australia 's Bob Dwyer but who was held to have made quite an impact on the Lions ' top brass versus Wales — and the young stand-off , Eric Ellwood . |