Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He longed for the austerities of the mission field . |
| 2 | The same procedure for verification was followed as for the records of the meetings . |
| 3 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 4 | Was he right then when he told the people of Scotland , ’ Do n't vote for the proposals of the Labour party because they do not contain any responsibility for raising revenue . |
| 5 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 6 | For the disciples round the cross the words were the pronouncement of doom : the end of hope and meaning , the extinction of faith , defeat . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Welsh international Mark Titley and Newbridge wing Alun Harries were putting on a show for the selectors at the Bridgend Sevens in helping their invitation team ‘ The Welshmen ’ ( management includes Messrs. Ring and Webb ) to victory 22–16 against Llanharan in the Final . |
| 8 | It was once a retreat for the monks of the Celtic Church . |
| 9 | This model has all the advantages of the earlier inflationary models , but it does not depend on a dubious phase transition , and it can moreover give a reasonable size for the fluctuations in the temperature of the microwave background that agrees with observation . |
| 10 | The meeting stented £10 for the Directors of the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow , " wishing to Contribute for so laudable a Plan , " and a like sum next year . |
| 11 | Bearing in mind the policy modifications imposed on the Urban Programme after 1979 , what kind of supportive environment was it providing for the cities by the mid-to-late 1980s ? |
| 12 | Progress was slow , but by the mid-eighteenth century success had been achieved in both methods of calculating longitude : the Greenwich astronomers had worked out the tables for the movements of the moon and an English watchmaker , John Harrison , had made a chronometer that kept such perfect time that it could meet the requirements of any sailor . |
| 13 | The directions are those that would be expected if the pigeons use the sun as a compass , making allowance for the movements of the sun through the day . |
| 14 | The test is a series of movements in walk , trot and canter and you get marked for the movements in the test . |
| 15 | Now I can not bear the darkness and have to keep on relighting the candle , fumbling for the matches in the total darkness . |
| 16 | Industry spread over the lower-lying parts of the towns , leaving the hills for the residences of the well-to-do , but this was not a conscious piece of ‘ zoning ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Except for the findings of the inquest . ’ |
| 18 | Lee was looking for the bits of the fence that were buried in the grass . |
| 19 | The General Secretariat carries out the decisions of the Council and provides financial and administrative services for the personnel of the League . |
| 20 | The nature of this particular situation added an emotional element that made the task even more difficult , and many subjective statements were made about the transformation , statements that appeared to reflect the concern of the analysts for the recipients of the service ( for instance , making old people comfortable in their last few years , and providing caring services for terminally old people ) . |
| 21 | 4 Walk for the Forests of the World , Sponsored walks throughout the country organised by WWF to save our forests . |
| 22 | Walk for the Forests of the World with the WWF on October 4 |
| 23 | Advertisements for the bonds in the USA had assured prospective buyers that they would not be required to disclose their identities or the source of their funds . |
| 24 | Table 5.9 also compares values for the bonds in the diatomic halogen molecules as the group is descended . |
| 25 | Your life expectancy as a male today is seventy four years , and for the females of the species , and we love them , your life expectancy is eighty years . |
| 26 | It is , however , worth noting some symptomatic cracks in the uniformity of their scorn for the products of the Culture Industry . |
| 27 | Alongside mass production , according to this approach , went mass consumption , so that the system could be sustained by general state-inspired ( Keynesian ) economic management , which encouraged a continued growth of demand for the products of the generally centralized industries with their large production units . |
| 28 | Delegates called for the ARC to conduct urgent genetic research to find new uses for the products of the malt and barley industries . |
| 29 | He surely recollects the precedents set in the steel and coal industries , in which the Community was involved in Europewide initiatives to limit the impact of the decline in demand for the products of the companies concerned . |
| 30 | which is more than can be said for the products of the human |