Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of the changes the near future may bring , the central importance of the head as an exemplar of personal and professional qualities will remain . |
| 2 | It was said to be Philip who chose to send his sons to Gordonstoun , regardless of the effects the school 's strict regime might have on them — a regime that might , along with their father 's exacting standards , have contributed to their inability to sustain loving relationships . |
| 3 | What it said sounded very much like the words the woman had just used . |
| 4 | And all along the Cages the other eagles scuttered and muttered , some staring silently at the Men taking the oldest and most venerable among them away , others pretending not to look . |
| 5 | And you get a high tide in the seas nearest the moon and also oddly enough in the seas the furthest away . |
| 6 | Down from the mountains the weather was warmer , without the snow and wind of Canjuers . |
| 7 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 8 | Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose . |
| 9 | Perhaps over the generations the interaction between a particular cultural context and the energy pattern at a place could build up a strong image or archetype . |
| 10 | ‘ I know , ’ I said again , and I was too , but not for the reasons the proctologist believed . |
| 11 | Someone had sent him a jacket almost exactly like the ones the famous bomber pilots all wore during the war . |
| 12 | Just behind the charges the effect of the opposite charge is minimal so the field lines resemble those of an isolated charge . |
| 13 | Our long-term aim is to shift the burden of taxation away from the things the country needs more of — income , savings and value added — and on to the things we want less of , such as pollution and resource depletion . |
| 14 | Away from the dunes the machair level rises gradually before falling again towards wet hollows or lochs at the landward edge . |
| 15 | Away from the territories the birds remain gregarious . |
| 16 | It began : ‘ Already in the fields the snow is melting and the swollen rivers herald Spring . ’ |
| 17 | Once a call has come through from the police the team initiates a ‘ cascade call ’ system where say , one person is responsible for telephoning six other team members . |
| 18 | Elsewhere in the Lakes the tourist industry was having a last determined autumn fling , but not here , not in this quiet and relatively undiscovered cul-de-sac . |
| 19 | Shortly before the elections the federal government had released details of an alleged plot to take Sabah out of the Federation . |
| 20 | The Court concluded that the Association 's arguments were directed largely to the benefits the agreement gave the UK market . |
| 21 | In Stunt v. Bolton a man refused to hand over to the police the keys of a car which was causing an obstruction of the highway . |
| 22 | She got home to Kington Square at last , still grubby , very hungry , quite dispirited and having had to hand over to the police the document which had cost her an unreasonable amount of suffering . |
| 23 | Although there were aunts and uncles on the London stage somehow over the years the contact was lost and never re-established . |
| 24 | In such circumstances , therefore , it may be prudent to include the following additional proviso : PROVIDED THAT while this Lease is vested in ( Tenant 's name ) any notice or document to be served on the Tenant shall be served at its registered office and not at the Premises The tenant may object to the amendments suggested to be made to s 196 and wish to amend or delete them . |
| 25 | From the outside it looks the same as the broader opportunity garden , but once through the gates the entrant sees that it is only a narrow strip . |
| 26 | Once in the glasses the cream will not spoil nor sink nor separate . |
| 27 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 28 | It was a shrewd thrust , bringing home to the sceptics the Pascalian contrast between the littleness of man , for all his ingenuity , and the immensity of the universe . |
| 29 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 30 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |