Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
| 2 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 3 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 4 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 5 | of times kissed her on the arse |
| 6 | However , the Council of Guardians re-submitted it to the Majlis on Jan. 24 , calling for revisions to be made to it . |
| 7 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 8 | LMS , appraisal systems and governing body involvements compound the demands of heads to remove themselves from the classrooms , and to dictate instructions down the line . |
| 9 | Injuries permitting , he should finish this season approaching 600 career games — with a tally of goals putting him among the 300-plus elite . |
| 10 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 11 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 12 | The day begins at sunrise and an army of engineers check everything from the fuselage to the fuel valve . |
| 13 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 14 | As well as an excellent display , the Lynx has a much louder speaker and — in the tradition of the Atari 8-bits and Commodore Amiga — a powerful set of chips to help it with the animation needed for superior three-dimensional games . |
| 15 | The success rate of lawyers was consistently better than that of trades union representatives and of individuals representing themselves over the four years from 1979 to 1982 covered ( DoE , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | A relay of tapes filled themselves in the machines on the table beside them . |
| 17 | If the temperature also rises above the bees ' favoured level of 35°C , a group of workers position themselves near the entrance with their tails pointing outwards and then start fanning their wings so that the stale air is wafted out . |
| 18 | It was also a prison , and at the back of the palace is the beautiful Bridge of Sighs connecting it with the dark , damp cells . |
| 19 | Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ? |
| 20 | It has dedicated its Canadian historical collection to one of the art world 's more radical attempts to engage the spectator : one room mimics a nineteenth-century salon , with scores of paintings crammed one above the other to the advantage of none ; another gallery , devoted to the famed Group of Seven , contains a pew-like bench set directly in front of Tom Thomson 's ‘ West Wind ’ ( a national icon ) and two landscapes by Lauren Harris , rigged with telephones providing a soundtrack on the artists . |
| 21 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 22 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 23 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 24 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 25 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 26 | Fun-filled Faliraki is only a 20–25 minute walk away but there is a public bus service which departs from outside the hotel , and lots of taxis to whisk you to the beach and Faliraki centre . |
| 27 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 28 | ‘ For your own sakes , for your families ' sakes , for God 's sake , do n't let the selfish pursuit of thrills blind you to the implications of this body in the coffin and to the awfulness of the activity you are involved in , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Her move , she said , was in no way caused by the spate of allegations linking her to the murders of the township activist Stompie Moeketsi and the Soweto physician Dr Abu-Baker Asvat and to other possible charges of kidnap , assault and theft . |
| 30 | In 1.1 , for example , we showed a sequence of instructions to add one to the operand field of an " add " instruction , so that when executed it referred to successive locations in store . |