Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the white [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when the Porter came out on to the platform , Peter asked about the white line . |
| 2 | He made the most of the clear patches of brilliant blue sky fleetingly appearing through the white storm clouds . |
| 3 | I headed for the white gleam of a village in the distance and was grateful to find that the one and only store sold iced drinks . |
| 4 | The first morning we rehearsed in the white water , pretty gingerly I do n't mind saying . |
| 5 | ‘ who is that fierce old lady who lives in the white cottage ? ’ |
| 6 | Mr. Peter Walker : The conclusions of my review of the National Health Service in Wales are included in the White Paper " Working for Patients " , Cm. 555 . |
| 7 | The Government wanted the figures on core contracts included in the white paper to underpin the credibility of its assumptions on the fate of pits which might stay open . |
| 8 | The aim of this article is to challenge the assertion contained in the White Paper Crime , Justice and Protecting the Public ( Home Office , 1990a ) that probation practice can be conceived of as a form of punishment in the community . |
| 9 | Many of the proposals contained in the White paper Working for Patients ( DOH 1989a ) have passed into law as a result of the British parliament passing the NHS and Community Care Bill in June 1990 . |
| 10 | The Advisory Council 's report was published in November 1960 , the same month as a Criminal Justice Bill brought before Parliament in legislative shape the main proposals contained in the White Paper . |
| 11 | The winter of 1978–9 was the winter of discontent , the discontent of trade unions generally with the guidance contained in the White Paper , published in July 1978 , on pay policy . |
| 12 | This reflects a clear preference for an offence-based rather than an offender-based tariff and is in line with the proposals contained in the White Paper ( Home Office , 1990a : para. 2.19 ) . |
| 13 | The Government maintained this position , even after the wide range of options contained in the White paper published in Copenhagen on 9 October and a contribution made by Mr Schlüter to the special Council of Ministers on 16 October showed that the Danish Government had not even decided in its own mind what position to take . |
| 14 | It will usefully reinforce the important principles contained in the White Paper as they will be applied in the Province . |
| 15 | The continued cash starvation of the NHS , the insidious introduction of privatisation into the NHS via ancillary services , the increasing trend towards inadequately resourced ’ community ’ care ( the government is due to make a decision on the Griffiths review proposals on community care ) , the development of a ’ Sainsbury 's ’ style management in the NHS and the encouragement given to the private sector , are all trends which have laid the ground for Thatcher 's government to make the very damaging proposals contained in the White Paper . |
| 16 | He folded his arms and power streamed from his eyes , so that the two slaves were caught in the white glare . |
| 17 | As the majority holder of funds for technology transfer , the DTI 's announcements relating to the White Paper are where much of the action is . |
| 18 | Those Asians and West Indians who are more dispersed among the white population are far less likely to suffer every kind of disadvantage than those living in the areas of local concentration . |
| 19 | But he was gone already , walking across the white cloud , and then across the pink cloud . |
| 20 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 21 | Fincara seemed so tall , surrounded by the white fire ; before her , Ruth felt helpless . |
| 22 | " You hear all kinds of stories of how the Indian is oppressed by the white man , " Dr. Favor said . |
| 23 | 10 It enters the spinal cord through the dorsal root of the spinal nerve from where it passes through the white matter and into the grey matter . |
| 24 | Flavia said , ‘ Your head seen against the white wall , it shows up the structure , I know now whom you remind me of , I saw it when I first met you , but could not place it , it 's not a literal resemblance , it 's something basic , you do look like someone I know . ’ |
| 25 | His jaw worked loosely , and perspiration stood out all over his forehead , rivulets running down the side of his neck and soaking into the white collar . |
| 26 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 27 | The 17th Century Wide Work or New Work is separated from the White Work ( known by this time as the Deep or Old Mine ) by a steeply inclined bed of well cleaved ashes and tuffs which , in places , have been found suitable for roofing slate . |
| 28 | The basic concepts in the Gower Report were accepted in the White Paper , and the Financial Services Bill , and were later enshrined in the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 29 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 30 | New commitments from the sustainable development plan would be incorporated in the White Paper 's tables for subsequent monitoring . |