Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day begins at sunrise and an army of engineers check everything from the fuselage to the fuel valve . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | These type of thoughts put us in the mood to feel anxiety . |
| 6 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |