Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was saying what happened was the last three years there 's been no plums about so the supermarkets have sort of found something else . |
| 2 | Since watches were for long the toys of the rich , it is not surprising that often when ordinary folk encountered one they were extremely puzzled and were even inclined to look upon it as something evil and dangerous . |
| 3 | Marketability varies between assets ; some assets are easily realizable , but some — such as perhaps the shares of small companies — may not find ready buyers . |
| 4 | The withdrawal of the other two brands , which accounted for 850f the injections , came after a ‘ small number ’ of children got ‘ mumps-meningitis ’ . |
| 5 | After today the Copts will be very anxious not to provoke you , but should some foolish man do so then you are to instruct your people not to respond . ’ |
| 6 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 7 | When they reported back to the branch about the National Conference of Young Conservatives , they were questioned about just the things they had failed to notice . |
| 8 | Hello , Dolly ! also had money in it , reputedly paying him 100,000 , and more for just the rehearsals than his total previous showbusiness earnings . |
| 9 | As opposed to going in for just the interviews . |
| 10 | This appears to envisage rules which require the disclosure of only the arrangements for the payment of commission and not of the actual amount . |
| 11 | A combination of a biographical dictionary of activists begun in the 1920s ( which was cut short by Stalin after completion of only the volumes covering the 1860s , 70s and a small proportion of the activists of 1880–1904 ) and the meticulous records of the Police and Justice Departments on political arrests have made possible rough estimates of the number who actually fell foul of the authorities . |
| 12 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 13 | The Carstairs system ( after Joseph Carstairs , died 1820 ) involved using the whole forearm in the business of writing , instead of just the fingers . |
| 14 | Congratulations , and sets of Just The Words to J Howard , Birmingham ; S Bryant , London W13 ; M Walker , Wirral . |
| 15 | Hox-B1 and Hox-B2 are expressed in r4 through an expanded domain which extends to the midbrain. c , Neural crest migrating from this expanded domain expresses Hox-B2 , instead of just the cells migrating from r4 in con- trol embryos . |
| 16 | This was a small , imperial octavo-size volume containing eventually 73 plates , mainly of just the heads of birds . |
| 17 | In both cases Bourdieu 's assumptions of the linkages of knowledge to power place him , I shall contend , rather firmly in the camp of , not the structuralists but the poststructuralists , of not the modernists but the postmodernists . |
| 18 | Stress on the 12 anchors will be constantly monitored by a computer which will sound an alarm if there is a change in the angle of any the chains . |
| 19 | As of today the operations of the police force in the field of internal intelligence have been stopped , ’ Mr Calfa said . |
| 20 | The principal claim to greatness of even the popes themselves , before the mid-eleventh century , lay in their conduct as bishops of Rome , building churches , organizing poor relief , and resisting the attempts of every tinpot contender for the empire to dominate the city and its people . |
| 21 | In other words , the continuing fall in the demand for labour on farms has prompted a growing proportion of even the locals to live in the village and work in towns . |
| 22 | While ignoring the possible trauma caused by the actual fighting itself , it graphically explores ( through brilliant performances by Frederic March , Dana Andrews , Harold Russell , Myrna Loy and Virginia Mayo ) the fractures that war creates in the lives of even the victors . |
| 23 | Moreover , as payments were commonly made to gang leaders , the contractor was unlikely to be aware of even the names of men employed on the site . |
| 24 | Sometimes , we have to deal with very old hard and thick wood that taxes the strength of even the loppers . |
| 25 | Many of the issues in the contemporary study of perceptual systems have come about because of our improved understanding of how the systems might work , based largely on people 's attempts to build models of perceptual processes . |
| 26 | The press conferences held in Tokyo was long on reassurances and short on details of how the companies will operate post-merger . |
| 27 | This was so , despite the fact that many of the charges were minor and could not result in terms of imprisonment , and regardless of how the cases turned out if indeed they were ever proceeded with . |
| 28 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |
| 30 | These sessions will include four evening ‘ roadshows ’ of presentations and workshops , illustrated with real examples of how the reforms will be handled locally . |