Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 2 | DELOITTE Haskins & Sells in the UK has firmly established itself as the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the accountancy profession . |
| 3 | The move follows Wednesday 's announcement of a merger between Coopers and Deloitte Haskins & Sells in the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | On Nov. 7 a government spokesman in Khartoum complained that splits in the SPLA would make it difficult to resume the Nigerian-mediated Abuja peace negotiations which were due to take place in December [ see pp. 38901 ; 38952 for previous peace talks ] . |
| 5 | ‘ I was told by a Minister that lives in the SAS were expendable . |
| 6 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 7 | Do you mean the one that starts on the Tuesday ? |
| 8 | It is this type of thinking that lies behind the US Justice Department 's Vertical Restraints Guidelines mentioned above , though White ( in this issue ) remarks that these 1985 Guidelines have not been particularly successful in clarifying the issues , and vertical restraints remain an unsatisfactory area of US antitrust policy . |
| 9 | It is a sensitive area , well placed for keeping an eye on anything that happens in the Thames , and , seaward , in the North Sea . |
| 10 | Britain is in between with more constraints upon the media than happens in the USA , but more press reponing than in many Scandinavian countries . |
| 11 | I think a settlement of this size would be compatible with the general pattern of village development that exists in the York area , if a new settlement were significantly larger than this pattern I think there would be a high degree of risk of coalescence with the existing er communities , and would certainly threaten their identity . |
| 12 | It lies in the centre of the cross formed by four branches of the lake meeting : the Luzerner See ( the word See means lake ) to the north-west , the Kussnachter See to the north-east , the main body of the lake due east , and the southern basin that leads to the Stansstad narrows and the Alpnacher See beyond . |
| 13 | Now , it is well known ( see Chandrasekhar , 1983 ) that this is the Ernst potential that leads to the Kerr solution for stationary axisymmetric space-times . |
| 14 | They may be interested to learn that snowstorms in the Alps have been known to throw a spanner in the clockwork of everyday life too . |
| 15 | The owners of the Bothy Vineyard in Oxfordshire insist that winegrowers in the UK should be allowed to run their businesses as they see fit . |
| 16 | The eastern edge of the gardens is defined by Corso Venezia , a road that ends at the Barriera di Porta Venezia . |
| 17 | Other treks cross the two fine Arctic National Parks , Uhro Kekkonen to the east , and Lemmenjoki park in the north , a park that links with the Øvre Anarjokka Park that lies in Norway , to the east of Kautokeino , capital of Norwegian Lappland . |
| 18 | Beyond even this , however , it can be argued that the intrinsic nature of the fabliau that resides in the Shipman 's Tale counteracts all of these " anti-isms " , and that the Shipman 's Tale thus offers a critical disruption of these conventional categories . |
| 19 | The local museum has been completely restructured for the show that travels to the Kimbell in January |
| 20 | The one hotel group whose name is synonymous throughout the East with traditional standards of elegance , style and grace , now has a sparkling string of properties that stretches through the Pacific to the Atlantic . |
| 21 | As its diamond-tipped drill moves from place to place along a rock band that stretches through the Mweelrea Mountains and the Sheeffry Hills , local concern is growing . |
| 22 | Because everything that appears on the Macintosh screen is treated as a graphic , even the text is handled this way , life is remarkably easy for the desktop publisher . |
| 23 | I am writing with regard to the small article ‘ Christie 's to hold sales in Germany ’ that appears in the November edition of The Art Newspaper . |
| 24 | Glance at an Atlas of the British Isles and you will surely spot the bulge of land that thrusts into the North Sea just below the Wash . |
| 25 | Furthermore , all the SRF derivatives used here recruit equally well a SAP1-VP16 fusion protein that binds to the SRF moiety ( not shown ) . |
| 26 | In Langbaurgh , he spent much of the bleak winter at South Gare , a blustery headland that juts into the North Sea not far from the resort of Redcar . |
| 27 | A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority . |
| 28 | Such an interpretation is not merely a case of reading some preferred assumption into the silence on the subject of the Miller 's relationship with the Reeve that descends after the Reeve has finished his tale . |
| 29 | After all , she and the Queen had always happily nattered away for hours while out riding around the castle estate that runs along the River Dee . |
| 30 | It 's a river that runs off the Medway . |