Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 6 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In specifically educational matters , stress was laid on both initial and in-service training of teachers to attune them to the needs of ethnic minority groups and to improve their understanding of a multicultural approach to education . |
| 12 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
| 13 | ‘ If a guitarist smokes a couple of weeds to get him in the mood to play no-one bats an eyelid because he 's a public entertainer . |
| 14 | ‘ Between the cup and the lip it has pleased the Great Disposer of events to visit him with the greatest of all afflictions in the bereavement of his most affectionate wife . |
| 15 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |