Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 2 | The first local Amnesty groups ( the still-running Eltham and Hampstead among them ) were formed only months after the launch in May 1961 . |
| 3 | That perhaps was the biggest shock most of the journalists had expected to see only children near the line . |
| 4 | He was forced to withdraw his dissolution , though only after more than two years of controversy , during which time the Council had gone about its business and drafted a number of decrees that restrained the power of the papacy , and laid down reforms throughout the Church . |
| 5 | These two requirements were first established by Greek playwrights and were later codified by the Académie Française ( 1635 ) when it laid down rules for the composition of any literary work . |
| 6 | This appears from the decision of the European Court of Justice in Zuckerfabrik Sûderdithmarschen A.G. v. Hauptzollamt Itzehoe ( Cases C 143/88 and C 92/89 ) , The Times , 27 March 1991 ( judgment delivered on 21 February 1991 ) where the court laid down conditions for the grant of a stay of execution of a national administrative Act based on a Community Regulation because of doubts on the part of the national court as to the validity of the Regulation ( see paragraphs 22–23 of the judgment of the court ) . |
| 7 | A meeting at the House of Commons between Maxton , Brockway , Campbell Stephen and McGovern of the ILP , and Pollitt , Gallacher , Kerrigan and Springhall of the Communist Party , laid down conditions for the continuance of the United Front . |
| 8 | Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities . |
| 9 | After ‘ The Greek Miracle ’ leaves the Met , the next special exhibition will be of Hellenistic and Roman cameos , bringing together objects from the Met collection and from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna . |
| 10 | Three EC forums were in place to solve the Yugoslav crisis : the EC Peace Conference chaired by Lord Carrington bringing together representatives of the former Yugoslav states ; the Conference on Bosnia-Hercegovina under Portuguese EC envoy José Cutilheiro ; and the Arbitration Commission , chaired by Robert Badinter . |
| 11 | Here a collectivity was developed on a regional or local basis , drawing together workers from the various trades , rather than in a national body for the members of a single trade . |
| 12 | The new classification was to focus on drawing together items in the CAB information system by client-situation , so that seemingly disparate things , such as holiday insurance and local animal-care centres , would be brought together as part of the information a client may need when going on holiday . |
| 13 | As yet you are using only variations of the first fifty millesimal potency with which you began , and this way you derive the maximum benefit from each potency in turn . |
| 14 | For instance , using only components of the quartal chord D , G , C , F , we can move as follows , by abandoning the strict use of fourths without transposition , and using the notes in different groupings and in different registers : In spite of the abandoning of strict usages of harmony in fourths , it will be felt that in the above example the same harmonic mood persists throughout . |
| 15 | ln the parks the eucalypti were alive with lorikeets , and flocks of parakeets chased each other around the streets ; while spotted diamond birds clung to the leaves of trees in every enclosure , and yellow-throated honey-eaters crept along branches in the ravines around the town . |
| 16 | He obviously changed the clock around — there are many filled in holes in the front — which implies it was a pioneering , experimental piece . |
| 17 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 18 | R.S. ran seminars in London hotels bringing in speakers from the relocation area to discuss issues such as health , education and housing . |
| 19 | Once received the data will be converted from radio to microwave signals and passed along cables to the control centre nearby . |
| 20 | He said that the party would be committed to democracy , socialism and universal social welfare , but it was expected to attract mostly Moslems after the convention of Moslems organized by Shahabuddin on July 8-9 had asked him to organize a national party for minority groups . |
| 21 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 22 | We shall consider only distortions in the next section . |
| 23 | He lives only yards from the store and fears there may be more . |
| 24 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 25 | The modern ceremony contains only vestiges of the original Latin in such phrases as in absentia , for candidates graduating in their absence and honoris causa , applied to honorary degrees . |
| 26 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 27 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 28 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 29 | Uniformed police and plainclothes detectives were also present in even greater numbers than had originally been planned after an elaborate bomb hoax only hours before the funeral . |
| 30 | That would help us track down details from the relevant auctioneers . |