Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 Whether his witness against a background of hate because he told we look at the Paraclete 's role in the world or among the disciples the answer is the same .
2 ( Except for the Baptists the influx did not lower the trend towards a more educated ministry : the total of all Baptist ministers without any formal higher education was only eighteen per cent by 1901 .
3 There is no doubt that for the fathers the Devil is the Enemy , and on the whole most of them stress this even more than did St Paul himself .
4 But you suspect that for the Nethercotts the most exciting part will be over .
5 Mr Gummer claimed that during the negotiations the powerful American farming lobby had been ‘ all over the hotel ’ .
6 Did you find that through the years the classes got bigger ?
7 It is probable that like the mammals the roots of the great variety of living birds are to be found in the Cretaceous , but fossils , which could document this , are only now slowly coming to light .
8 There is some evidence that from the mid-1950s the average size of firm in manufacturing was growing as the employment share of firms with less than 100 workers fell from 60 to 50 per cent .
9 This implies that within the patches the rate of energy transfer per unit mass increases with wave number , thus complicating the derivation of the Kolmogorov law .
10 It 's really incredible that in the circumstances the more serious charge was withdrawn .
11 By summonses dated 16 October , against each plaintiff , the defendants sought a declaration that in the circumstances the English court had no jurisdiction over the defendants in respect of the subject matter of the claim or the relief or remedy sought and an order that the action be dismissed on the grounds that the defendants were domiciled in Scotland for the purposes of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and that Schedule 4 to the Act provided that the defendants should , subject to exceptions which were not applicable , be sued in the courts of Scotland .
12 SOME of the longer-serving staff and graduates may remember that in the mid-1970s the University embarked on a major review of its Charter and Statutes , designed to make changes in governance which we thought desirable after ten years of operation .
13 They found that in the hybrids the germ cells apparently migrated into the fetal gonads normally , and their early cell divisions proceeded normally .
14 Professor Dowd found it particularly irritating and inconvenient , as did the railway companies and their customers , that in the mid-1860s the continental United States had no fewer than eighty different standards of time .
15 At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund .
16 no less than in the Infants the time before ,
17 It 's a bit unnerving when people in the gallery laugh to their own jokes rather than to the ones the comedian is making .
18 German influence in East Prussia had been so strong that over the years the southern strip of East Prussia , which was occupied by a large number of ethnic Poles , had become increasingly Germanised .
19 Then I realized that over the years the white wedding dress had become yellow , and the flowers in her hair had died , and the bride inside the dress had grown old .
20 He said that Sabine Jourdain had always worked on the paintings with her maître and that over the years the amount she did varied .
21 And for the pensioners the battle was won .
22 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
23 There is a great emphasis on sport and outdoor pursuits , and during the holidays the cadets are obliged to take part in adventurous training activities both in the UK and abroad . ’
24 This is not intended to be an exhaustive list and throughout the observations the main questions in the HMI 's mind are : Is the range of work suitable for the children ?
25 In part two soccer action on the pitch , and behind the scenes the police operation to control the crowds .
26 As I said you mention it may be something which is out of our field and we 'll have to make sure that the arguments for and against the problems the problem .
27 Soon it was falling in icy , clattering streams , as if above the clouds the bottom of a reservoir had been suddenly pulled aside .
28 His face was a picture of red ferocity , the straggling red hair and beard , the bloodshot eyes , the gaunt-featured face burnt red by wind and sun , which yet showed on the cheekbones and under the eyes the bruising stain of tiredness .
29 Nearer the sea and along the rivers the soils were all fine silt .
30 However , they made little impact until in the mid-1960s the Milk Marketing Board began to notice that many of its top AI dairy bulls seemed to have plenty of Canadian blood in them .
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