Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first session , after I have finished speaking , will involve 12 speakers addressing you on the theme of the conference , each from his or her specific perspective . |
| 2 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 3 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 4 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 5 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 6 | Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen . |
| 7 | Invitations have been sent to 3,000 businesses asking them to the conference which is backed by the Health and Safety Executive and County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 8 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 9 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 10 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 11 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 12 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 13 | Two wills becoming one , when the two wills were initially unequal can surely only mean the one will subordinating itself to the other . |
| 14 | City are thus able to check the Premier table to find they have eight teams below them with a gap of nine points separating them from the relegation zone . |
| 15 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 16 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 17 | Although I did not care for her looks , the yacht-like appearance had great potential for undercover work and after about two months working her around the Solent and Poole area I was quite impressed . |
| 18 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 19 | If I could illustrate from two medieval theologians , the two traditions following them in the Tomas tradition righteousness and the moral law of God is seeing is seen as being part of the very being of God himself . |
| 20 | I 've left it with two screws holding it at the moment . |
| 21 | In a message to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali the committee according to the Middle East News Agency on April 9 forwarded a message from Libya : the Libyan authorities would not object to the two men placing themselves at the disposal , via the Arab League , of the UN Secretary-General . |
| 22 | He said he did everything he could to calm Farrow down , including on two occasions taking her to the exclusive Carlyle Hotel and sleeping with her after she begged him to do so . |
| 23 | ‘ Ernst & Young will be writing to all depositors within 48 hours advising them of the position , ’ said Jason Elles . |
| 24 | In early 1991 after the Australian Federal Court found the Tobacco Institute of Australia guilty of publishing misleading information about the health effects of passive smoking , Quit wrote to 175 000 organisations informing them of the decision and inviting them to participate in its workplace campaign . |