Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 2 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 3 | Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children . |
| 4 | Although retiring from office this year , warden Frank Wood will be carrying on responsibility for the general overseeing of the buildings and the Church Centre . |
| 5 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 6 | In the Cabinet changes carried out in August [ see p. 39067 ] Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took on responsibility for the Aegean and Andreas Andrianopoulos ( hitherto Minister of Industry and Commerce ) became Minister of State , alternating as Government Spokesman with Vassilis Magginas . |
| 7 | Leicester Crusaders , a touring side based on Leicester and including current players Simon Povoas and Jez Harris , took on Oyonnax at the end of the French club 's most successful ever season . |
| 8 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 9 | Fortunately , although Johnny and Susan and Harbajahn and Khadijah are individual personalities with a myriad variety of individual differences , they are all recognizably part of the genus homo sapiens , whatever the embattled teacher may sometimes wonder . |
| 10 | Thus the compulsive relationship with physical exercise can become effectively part of the spectrum of eating disorder behaviour . |
| 11 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 12 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 13 | For Electricite de France carried on building throughout the appeals procedure and the first Cruas reactor is due to be coupled to the national grid in two months . |
| 14 | Could you take a part which would involve the wearing of an acid-yellow loose négligée for the most part of the proceedings ? |
| 15 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 16 | Synonymous for the most part with the hegemonic culture of the bourgeoisie , the novel is not a form easily adapted to the demands of a revolutionary communist ideology explicitly contesting the assumptions of the class by which the form itself was fashioned . |
| 17 | Mr Strachan 's time in office coincided for the most part with the tenure as Librarian of the late Professor Denis Roberts . |
| 18 | For were not the brothels and whorehouses of Panama City and pre-revolutionary Havana developed for the most part for the benefit of American troops ? |
| 19 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 20 | Er , generally and for the most part and for the most part at the end of the day they 'll come up with completely irrelevant er things . |
| 21 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 22 | Although , as has been argued already , the significance of the 1934 Congress is to be located in its general guiding principles rather than in specific theories , it is nonetheless worthwhile examining briefly the substance of the 1934 debate not only because it sets out the agenda for a detailed discussion of socialist realism , but also because Nizan 's second novel , Le Cheval de Troie , was produced , for the most part in the Soviet Union during 1934 in the shadow of the Congress itself . |
| 23 | In May 1990 Cape Verde joined the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) in a move designed to encourage investment from the estimated 600,000 expatriate Cape Verdeans living for the most part in the USA and Europe . |
| 24 | She was the latest of a long line of girlfriends , drawn for the most part from the upper reaches of the aristocracy , who had appeared on his romantic horizon . |
| 25 | Interested but not involved — except during the years when I was a member , and latterly chairman of the Crofters Commission . |
| 26 | But they knew that on the left lay the Waste ; and that somewhere west of the Waste , no one knew precisely where , was the Great Camp of the outlaws . |
| 27 | During the final BLDC session in Beijing , seven members ( presumably part of the minority Hong Kong contingent ) had voted against the draft . |
| 28 | ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw . |
| 29 | I do n't want to die because I keep on thinking of the future . |
| 30 | I would want to argue that if our goal is a religious situation in which women and men are accounted equals , we shall need to promote not continuity but rather discontinuity with the past . |