Example sentences of "[noun] [det] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
| 2 | Management of the Pearl is led by Eionion Holland , the executive chairman , and Nigel Proddow , the chief general manager , who have 36 years of experience each with the Pearl . |
| 3 | He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 . |
| 4 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 5 | In 1950 the U.K. 's output per capita was about 50% that of the U.S. by 1900 it was about 75% . |
| 6 | Yet of course each of the schools in which the assistants work has pupils of many different ethnic origins , and in practice no single head has expressed any other intention than that assistants should work with families from all parts of the local community . |
| 7 | But it did mean that in order to understand a particular way of thinking — for instance that of the theist — it was necessary to pay careful attention to the way in which theists actually spoke . |
| 8 | It also runs along an old railway trackbed , in this instance that of the East Norfolk Railway . |
| 9 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 10 | At the wider level each of the units has to be sequenced to achieve a balance through the entire key stage . |
| 11 | During the evening they were presented with their gold watches and a cheque each from the company by the then general manager , Martin Cooke . |
| 12 | The two accountants fined £1,000 each by the Institute 's Disciplinary Committee over conflicts of interest in the administration of Polly Peck International , will not appeal against the ruling . |
| 13 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 14 | As can be seen from table 6.5 , the divorce-rate for unskilled husbands is more than four times that for professionals and for the unemployed , almost five times that for the professionals . |
| 15 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |
| 16 | Supermassive objects — with masses as high as , say , a hundred million times that of the Sun — would collapse even with the resistance provided by thermonuclear reactions ; in other words , before the fuel runs out . |
| 17 | Some astronomers have suggested that the energetic activity results from matter accreting onto a black hole at the very centre with a mass as much as several million times that of the Sun . |
| 18 | Eta is 440 light-years away , and can attain a luminosity well over 5000 times that of the Sun . |
| 19 | The authentic Sky Catalogue 2000.0 ( Cambridge University Press/Sky Publishing Corporation , 1982 ) gives its luminosity as 200000 times that of the Sun ; even if this is too high , Canopus still qualifies as a cosmic searchlight . |
| 20 | Gamma is quite definitely variable , and is an unstable star , with a luminosity about 6000 times that of the Sun ; periodically it throws off shells of material , though these can not be detected visually . |
| 21 | Its distance and luminosity are wildly uncertain , and estimates of its power range between 50 times and as much as 130000 times that of the Sun . |
| 22 | Imagine a star with a mass ten times that of the sun . |
| 23 | We also have some evidence that there is a much larger black hole , with a mass of about a hundred thousand times that of the sun , at the center of our galaxy . |
| 24 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 25 | The Kayapo population density is 20 times that of the Jivaro and the villages are maintained indefinitely in one place only , at the cost of a periodic temporary increase in community mobility . |
| 26 | Typically the hind legs or the mid and hind legs are flattened or clothed with lateral hair-fringes which increase the effective surface area to several times that of the leg proper . |
| 27 | The median acid output ( mmol/h ) to gastrin releasing peptide ( 40 pmol/ kg/h ) in the H pylori positive healthy volunteers was 15.1 ( range 3.3–38.3 ) , which was three times that of the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( median=5.5 , range 1.0–9.0 ) ( p<0.02 ) . |
| 28 | The median acid output in the duodenal ulcer patients with H pylori was 37 ( range 8.5–57 ) , which was >six times that of the H pylori negative healthy volunteers . |
| 29 | At gastrin releasing peptide 40 pmol/kg/h the median acid output ( mmol/h ) in the H pylori positive healthy volunteers ( 15.1 , range 3.3–38.3 ) was about three times that of the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 5.5 , range 1.0–9.0 ) ( p<0.02 ) ( Fig 2B ) . |
| 30 | At this infusion rate the median acid output in the H pylori positive duodenal ulcer patients was 37 ( range 8.5–57 ) , which was about twice that of the H pylori positive healthy volunteers ( p<0.02 ) and six times that of the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( p<0.001 ) . |