Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ . |
| 2 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
| 3 | By designating such materials as in varying degrees precious they have created symbols of excellence , a quality which stems from aesthetic awareness but the striving for which lies at the very root of the civilizations created by man . |
| 4 | So a Court would consist of three Magistrates , one of whom sits in the centre and acts as Chairman |
| 5 | A brief account of them occurs in the memoirs of William Tuckwell . |
| 6 | Neither of them conforms to the default format , but they both work . |
| 7 | The strength , durability and weight of them depends on the weight of fabric used and how much coating has been applied . |
| 8 | Deciding what facts are relevant to a choice of means may be very complicated , and that the difficulties from admitting his obligation to take account of them testifies to the irresistible authority of ‘ Be aware ’ in practical decisions . |
| 9 | The granaries were completed and provided with an imposing portico fronting the street ; an imperial dedication jointly to Septimius Severus , Caracalla and Geta from one of them refers to the construction by an unknown legionary vexillation during the governorship of Alfenus Senecio . |
| 10 | This is shown by the judgment of Lord Greene in Saltman where he said : " If two parties make a contract under which one of them obtains for the purpose of the contract or in connection with it some confidential matter , even though the contract is silent on the matter of confidence the law will imply an obligation to treat that confidential matter in a confidential way as one of the implied terms of the contract ; but the obligation of confidence is not limited to cases where the parties are in a contractual relationship " . |
| 11 | The rational way to employ such conflicting prudential principles would not be to deduce from more general principles which of them applies to the present case . |
| 12 | Only one fragmentary letter of his survives in the canonical New Testament . |
| 13 | One of the sherds ( fig. 14.33c ) appears to be an arm with the skin of the Nemean lion draped over the shoulder and another sherd ( fig. 14.33b ) shows a hand holding a staff or rod being thrust into a creature only the head of which survives on the sherd . |
| 14 | In 1829–31 he erected two wrought-iron suspension bridges , at Scotswood across the Tyne ( demolished 1967 ) and at Whorlton across the Tees , the latter of which survives as the oldest bridge of its type in the country still supported unaided by its original chains . |
| 15 | There he built his palace and chapel , part of which survives in the present cathedral . |
| 16 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 17 | The Rectory , stands a little below the church on the site of an earlier house , some of which remains under the long lean-to at the back . |
| 18 | ‘ The flow of traffic , the majority of which travels within the speed limit and many less than 20mph , would indicate a low priority rating for this road . ’ |
| 19 | There are presently two ways to measure the fine structure constant , a , only one of which depends on the correctness of QED . |
| 20 | The scales on the lower half of the body carry black marks which show up as a black patterning the intensity of which depends on the fish 's mood and condition . |
| 21 | It is not within the scope of this book to enter into a detailed explanation of the technique of the horn , but the fact should be firmly grasped that it is based on the possibility of producing by means of varying embouchure the upper partials of the harmonic series derived from a fundamental note , the pitch of which depends on the length of the tube . |
| 22 | ( As outlined in section 1.1 , they will orbit around the centre of mass , the position of which depends on the masses M and m . ) |
| 23 | The pulse.shaped output from the detectors have a slight phase displacement , the sign of which depends on the direction of rotation . |
| 24 | The intense gravitational field near the black hole causes the creation of pairs of particles and antiparticles , one of which falls into the black hole and the other of which escapes to infinity . |
| 25 | The frequency and volume of business material , not all of which falls into the legal deposit category , means that gaps do exist in the business collection . |
| 26 | These three places are equidistant and , if taken to fall on the circumference of a circle , can be seen to form three points of a decagon , the centre of which falls at the hamlet of Whiteleafed Oak , where Worcestershire , Herefordshire and Gloucestershire meet . |
| 27 | Bernstein and Reynolds give a very full treatment of the subject , much of which turns on the interpretation of provisions in commercial leases . |
| 28 | For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division . |
| 29 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 30 | The average family sends back $100 a month and pays a $10 fee to send it , part of which goes to the Vietnamese government . |