Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals . |
| 2 | WC apps : 7 Some observers thought the Soviet Union were a better all-round side than Holland in the 1988 European Championship . |
| 3 | The answer I believe continues to be that our economic and monetary authorities have less of an appreciation than others of the lags in the economy in particular between changes in interest policy and business investment . |
| 4 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but I 'm a better witness than Curren on the stand . |
| 6 | As the crow flies , or rather those rooks in A. K. Savrasov 's famous painting , the distance south-east from Smolensk to Kursk is 480 km. , which is a fraction more than the distance due north from Kursk to Moscow , and 80 km. deeper into the provinces than Smolensk from the capital . |
| 7 | Provocation is the basic process of lateral thinking which is a much more specific term than creativity for the changing of concept and perceptions . |
| 8 | Our Hong Kong painting sales now have a higher proportion of contemporary paintings influenced by Western techniques and subjects than paintings in the traditional Chinese style and media ( watercolour and ink paintings in scroll and album formats depicting landscapes , flowers , or Buddhist and figure themes ) . |
| 9 | Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " . |
| 10 | As they reached the door she glanced down at the small flower bed which gardeners in the congregation were trying to cultivate with more optimism than success in the unrewarding soil at the side of the path . |
| 11 | The period 1945 — 90 saw the number of morning papers decline , with total sales fluctuating ; gains and losses among the evening titles , with a long term decline in sales ; and more losses than gains among the weeklies , whose market changed sharply towards the end with the arrival of free sheets . |
| 12 | Guido paused for an instant , then added , smiling , ‘ I expect that 's why your personal monetary situation is rather more loss than profit at the moment — because you invest so much of your time in romance ? ’ |
| 13 | The clinical interview provided information about the severity and diagnosis of disorders , but also enabled researchers to measure onset and course using a concept of change-points : a point in time when an increase or decrease in the number of symptoms led to a noticeable change in a woman 's psychiatric state . |
| 14 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 15 | In the block arrangement , there might be a twenty-five per cent chance of collapse if pressures on the pile were to be distributed on all four sides . |
| 16 | The staff car provided accommodation for the medical officers and nurses , including separate mess rooms , its dimensions 52ft 6in by 9ft . |
| 17 | No doubt the loch provided fish for the table as well as water for cooking and drinking . |
| 18 | He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed . |
| 19 | On some of the whole-school matters , such as equal opportunities provision , the adviser provided feedback to the head only , although the adviser responsible for multicultural education spoke to all the senior staff . |
| 20 | These ‘ debt-equity swaps ’ merely push the debtor-country 's financial problems into the future because profits from the purchased companies will eventually be remitted to the North . |
| 21 | But , as we have noticed above , we often can not quantify these subsets meaningfully throughout the range of speaker-groups and styles because occurrences of the relevant variants are relatively rare . |
| 22 | This should be a convenient time to undertake this review since progress on the acquisitions side would be hindered by European [ summer ] holidays . |
| 23 | Some years ago , a local man reported an encounter with a monster while fishing in the loch and was positive about it but no further sightings have since been claimed . |
| 24 | The trees of the lower reaches are thus generalized in their attractions while trees like the dipterocarps get the local fauna and the bee Apis dorsata . |
| 25 | We had to construct a cradle to support the roof while parts of the wood beams were replaced . |
| 26 | The hydrogen in the water combines with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form organic compounds while oxygen from the water is released into the atmosphere . |
| 27 | There was no indication whether individuals within the subgroups had travelled to either their country of origin , if appropriate , or — if born in one geographical location — had travelled to other areas where the incidence of environmental toxoplasma exposed them to increased risk of this infection . |
| 28 | Matters came to light after relatives of the deceased employees did not receive the expected death benefits even though the insurance company had paid out the cheques to the fund . |
| 29 | Haemobilia after puncture of the biliary tree was seen in patient 6 and settled with conservative management . |
| 30 | Although it has recently become fashionable to subject judges to ( usually ill-informed ) public criticism , even in Parliament , and although it is no longer unknown for demands for the removal of judges to be voiced in the House of Commons ( as when Sir John Donaldson incurred opprobrium as President of the National Industrial Relations Court for applying the law which Parliament itself had passed ) Parliament has still , in modern times , to remove a judge in this manner . |