Example sentences of "in the [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 2 | In fact there is no reason to believe that the Franks were involved in any long-distance migration : archaeology and history suggest that they originated in the lands immediately to the east of the Rhine . |
| 3 | Any ice left after the previous day 's racing had been broken conclusively in the scenes out in the station , and the party had already gelled and was in full swing . |
| 4 | Yet not all of the vines which sweep north — from Mont Écouve in the west up to the edge of the Bois des Dames , and trailing south down the ridge towards the village — produce top grade Bouzy wines . |
| 5 | In western Siberia , while Turkic tribes from the steppes moved into the southern fringe of the forest and pressed upon the Samoeds , the Ugrian ( Khanty and Mansi ) peoples moving eastward from the Ural mountains into the Ob-Irtysh basin also mixed with the Samoeds , who by then occupied the northern forest and tundra from the White Sea in the west almost to the Lena in the east . |
| 6 | Note also that in the main body of the Figure for the sake of clarity only one magnetic field line is shown in the space well beyond the plasma sheet . |
| 7 | Have had better atmosphere 's at funerals — i was in the kop just to the right of the goal and other than the odd comment from fellow fans around me it 's the quitest it 's ever been when I 've gone . |
| 8 | Schoolgirls from Burford and Wood Green in Witney will be in the swim tomorrow for the finals of the National Synchronised Swimming competition . |
| 9 | The activity rate of women in the age-group just above the retirement age , 60–64 , fell from 29 per cent in 1971 to 21 per cent in 1986 . |
| 10 | They were driving through the suburbs in the valley far below the ancient hill settlement forming the historic core of the city . |
| 11 | He will take action in the courts equally for the State as for the individual against any local authority acting ‘ ultra vires ’ , that is , beyond their powers . |
| 12 | ( 6 ) Subject to the provisions of this Article and Article 4 the Directors are unconditionally authorised for the purposes of Section 80 of the Act to allot shares and grant rights to subscribe for , or convert securities into , shares in the Company up to the nominal amount of authorised share capital with which the Company is incorporated at any time or times during the period of five years from the date of adoption of these Articles . |
| 13 | ( 6 ) Subject to the provisions of this Article and Article 4 the Directors are unconditionally authorised for the purposes of Section 80 of the Act to allot shares and grant rights to subscribe for , or convert securities into , shares in the Company up to the nominal amount of authorised share capital with which the Company is incorporated at any time or times during the period of five years from the date of adoption of these Articles . |
| 14 | Decision : the sentencer indicated that there was little mitigation in the case apart from the plea of guilty , and that he did not consider the appellant 's presence conducive to the good of the country . |
| 15 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
| 16 | South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval . |
| 17 | Usually these are children from one-parent families , children in local-authority care , or youngsters who need a respite from the household chores they assume as surrogate adults because their parents are ill , and even , in some cases , children with a parent in prison , and are selected for inclusion in the scheme not by the police but by schools and other caring agencies . |
| 18 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 19 | Wood ( 1962 : 107-8 ) says almost the same thing : to can be omitted after help " only when the " helper " does some of the work , or shares in the activity jointly with the person that is helped " . |
| 20 | The subject was taken from contemporary life and the chief musical interest lies in the treatment not of the amorous gentry but of the hero 's four comic servants and their sons , and the peasants at a fair , who sing partly in dialect : and in a quick recitative with many repeated notes which must have been performed quasi-parlando . |
| 21 | Place the plants at either end of the tank and put a small flowerpot in the middle away from the plant clumps so the female can hide — and it also assists with her capture when the time comes to remove her . |
| 22 | focus ( iv ) : Historical issues relating to a selected text or group of texts : examples The specifically nineteenth-century idea of beauty in the nineteenth-century novel ; developments in the theatre immediately before the English Civil War ; representations of industrial life in early twentieth-century novels . |
| 23 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 24 | and , members of the Scottish Cycling Council ( the CTC in Scotland ) travelled to Aberfoyle in the Trossachs recently for the launch of the Scottish version of the Mountain Bike Code . |
| 25 | Water was poured through the hole in the floor immediately outside the lavatory door : an under-floor channel linked the hole with the vertical soil pipe under the lavatory seat . |
| 26 | There is very little furniture : a mattress on the floor ; three chairs , of which the best has no back and only half its stuffing ; and three or four old mats to stop objects dropping through the cracks in the floor on to the donkeys below . |
| 27 | The Rothschilds continued to take an interest in the boys long after the war , and after the death of James and Dorothy their cousin Lord Rothschild has continued the association . |
| 28 | So could I therefore ask the minister to , on another matter , to ensure that later in his remarks would he agree to the proposal that the right to a postal vote should be highly publicised in this country , perhaps by putting the R P F nine A form in the newspapers well before the closing date of May the twentieth . |
| 29 | The indigenous people who live in the forests all around the world have been murdered , terrorised and driven from their land by greedy developers . |
| 30 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |