Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true , as Tim had said , that the nearest keeper 's cottage was something like an hour 's hard tramp by footpath across the park and through the woods — but there was a short cut , if Mary dared take it . |
| 2 | Wild camping in the forest is prohibited but numerous organised sites are available both within the park and around the edges . |
| 3 | When grown in normal aquarium gravel , the plant should be nourished by placing clay granules or balls of sun-dried clay , at the base or around the roots . |
| 4 | He explained away the list of things that Waddell had seen in the Ross 's house as having been published at the trial or in the newspapers , which was not the case . |
| 5 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 6 | Air operated ‘ Numa ’ signal bells were provided by the Equipment & Engineering Co. in the saloon and on the platforms . |
| 7 | In the open sea , Joseph Ritter — always there beneath the text or in the shadows of Boswell 's narrative — mystifyingly lost Johnson 's spurs overboard . |
| 8 | Professor John Davies , of Strathclyde University , claims more young drug users are having their lives wrecked by the courts than by the drugs themselves . |
| 9 | The Act also contains guidance for the courts as to the factors which they should take into account in deciding whether any of the statutory exceptions to the presumption in favour of bail apply in a particular case . |
| 10 | I am fully aware of the importance of the independence of the courts and of the constraints that they face when sentencing juveniles . |
| 11 | The landlord may sue if he can prove that actual harm has been caused to the reversion or in the circumstances illustrated in the next case . |
| 12 | The manor passed out of the hands of the Archbishop and into the hands of the Crown in 1545 . |
| 13 | Any falling short in doing so reflects more on the teaching than on the students ' preparedness to respond . |
| 14 | His teaching , or the teaching that over the centuries has been ascribed to him , brought into being the highly influential religion of Christianity . |
| 15 | When came to dig out the foundations and like the buildings round the tanks . |
| 16 | ‘ failed to accord precedence to a foot passenger on the carriageway ’ This point means that the offending driver did not stop at or before the ‘ give-way ’ line , where provided , which is one metre from the limits of the crossing or at the limits to accord precedence . |
| 17 | Section 7(2) prevents the exclusion of liability as against a consumer for breach of warranties arising by implication of law from the form of the contract as to the goods ' correspondence to description or sample , or their quality or fitness for any particular purpose . |
| 18 | The competitive procurement policy of the Ministry of Defence has been good news not only for the Ministry and the taxpayer but for the yards . |
| 19 | I was not trained in economics , and economic matters were sure to figure largely in the run-up to the election and in the years to come . |
| 20 | The quality of items is decidedly variable and the author 's aim is clearly not to draw our attention to this , but this is an interesting book both for the illustrations and for the details of the private lives of the collectors featured . |
| 21 | A traditionally minded bishop had given the advertisements a welcome boost by complaining in the pulpit and in The Times that the campaign glorified adultery as well as Trumper 's Tea Bags . |
| 22 | Immediately before the conference Germany had expressed reluctance to commit further funds to the projects because of the costs of German unification . |
| 23 | Tyrion drove them out of the woods and into the hills of southern Chrace . |
| 24 | The second type of data was obtained from close observation of the changes in the compositions of the groups and in the holders of clearly defined role positions within the groups . |
| 25 | There was a picture of the terrace on which meals were taken ‘ except during thunderstorms ’ and several of the garden , but none of the kitchen or of the children 's accommodation . |
| 26 | And finally Rachel swept them from the kitchen and down the stairs , chatting amiably as she went . |
| 27 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 28 | He would talk not only of their vocation to the ministry but of the books which they were reading and the circumstances of their family . |
| 29 | Those involved in research into the drug and with the women taking it are mainly enthusiastic . |
| 30 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |