Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter pointed to the name printed in the top left-hand corner . |
| 2 | Can I also add that it will also instigate centrally determined policing policies , very much akin to other government policies , particularly economic policies which have , as yet , done nothing to address the underlying causes of crime and there are fears and I 'm quoting here from the er the response made by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities , the Association of County Councils and the Association of District Councils that it could lead to a national Police force . |
| 3 | At the back occasional noises of activity from the park broke across the air ; she sat in the front room cool enough now to sew . |
| 4 | The Committee was conspicuous for the fact that Conservative Members made few contributions ; the majority came from the Opposition . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 was a case where the ratio decidendi of the majority turned on the principle of duress . |
| 7 | The advantages of being able to deploy the micro-budget came from the fact that the case manager was both the person undertaking the assessment , and the direct worker who understood local opportunities . |
| 8 | The jeep-driver went into the farmhouse and emerged a few seconds later with the burly man . |
| 9 | Oslear , a one-time Grimsby stevedore , had privately put pressure on the International Cricket Council to confirm Lamb 's claim that the Pakistanis tampered with the ball during the one-day match at Lord 's nearly a month ago . |
| 10 | And no matter how the experts argued about the legitimacy of descent through the female line , nevertheless the people recognised no bar , and the council had accepted it as just and right when Richard , in view of his childlessness , had been urged to name his heir presumptive , and had named Philippa 's elder son , Roger , earl of March . |
| 11 | But while the experts complained about the way ‘ soft soap ’ was sterilising British brains , only to then argue that on the other hand Neighbours was ‘ allowing more public expressions of family emotions ’ , Kylie was taking full advantage of the situation . |
| 12 | and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five . |
| 13 | In the first year , over half of the finance came from the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies and the Government ( mostly from fees charged on companies ) , while the remainder came from the Stock Exchange and the Bank of England . |
| 14 | The crowds weaved around the barrow boys selling Christmas wrapping paper and ribbon and those party-popper things which went bang and sent streamers of shredded Hong Kong daily newspapers across the room . |
| 15 | An active suspension system is designed to keep the McLaren glued to the track by reading the bumps ahead and a radio link enables engineers to tweak the car 's operating systems during the race . |
| 16 | The machine tools were housed to one end , the aeroplane assembled at the other , whilst the draftsmen lived in the loft . |
| 17 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 18 | When the ombudsman reported on the case he said : ‘ I can not recall ever having encountered such a manifest and deplorable lack of regard by management for the welfare of a hospital inpatient . ’ |
| 19 | A quiet street and the beard stood in the shade of an apartment block doorway . |
| 20 | O'Connor and Brown ( 1984 ) suggested that one explanation may be that Henderson did not differentiate between the actual support provided in terms of confiding and frequency of contact and the attachment felt for the person named . |
| 21 | The Prince knew about the liaison . |
| 22 | The prince limped from the polo field at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor , yesterday and lay in agony on the sidelines after straining his back . |
| 23 | However , it turned out to be a very relaxed meeting , so much so that when the private session was over and the press were invited in to take photographs , the Prince said to the Pope , ‘ Let me introduce you to my press corps . ’ |
| 24 | The Prince arrived in the town on Thursday , the day when 12-year-old Tim Parry died in an intensive-care unit . |
| 25 | The CO strode to the door . |
| 26 | The trumpeter defected to the West in the mid-Seventies , and clearly found his musical home in the Hard Bop finishing school which was Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers . |
| 27 | Shrilling overhead , the hurricane clawed at the leaf canopy of the rain forest , tearing great holes in it . |
| 28 | When it saw what pleasure the servicemen had from the course , the Club was pleased its struggle to keep it open had been successful . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , and there is one other thing , ’ the Patrician said , as the wizard groped for the door handles . |
| 30 | While the public sector pay explosion in the mid-1970s led to the demise of volume planning , the imposition of cash planning has proven a blunt instrument . |