Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , if such a procedure were adopted by the House it would be better to have it subject to agreement between the usual channels than merely on the diktat of the Government . |
| 2 | The Canine Defence League refuses to find new homes for abandoned animals until well after the holiday , in case the same dogs are given as presents and then dumped again . |
| 3 | Southbound looks pretty slow heading into those roadworks as well for the time being . |
| 4 | No goals as yet in the other game in group A against Charlton although as I warned you earlier , I do n't think we 'll have that score for you tonight because it is being played in Italy and er our chances of getting that score through the er computer here are remote to put it mildly . |
| 5 | He is now involved in full time pathology research , but with a schedule to suit the heavy demands when away from the books . |
| 6 | Weobly , lying among gentle hills , its church spire visible from miles away , boasts more and finer black and white medieval houses than anywhere in the county . |
| 7 | Some species have benefited from the change in the downland agricultural scene , and Corn Buntings and Skylarks are now more numerous in these areas than elsewhere in the county and are the most characteristic birds of the downland . |
| 8 | It is possible to exaggerate the speed with which industrialization transformed Japan , partly because economic change was not insignificant in Tokugawa times , and partly too because industry was based primarily in the rural areas until well into the twentieth century . |
| 9 | And so it was envisaged that the former coaling and oiling stations of Gibraltar , Malta , Port Said , Suez , Aden , Bombay , Colombo , Penang , Singapore and Hong Kong would become air staging posts as well in the post-imperial era . |
| 10 | The table did for working and eating ; the mattress ( put straight on the floor and covered in black tweed ) did for sleeping and lounging ; and the steps made extra seating areas as well with the help of large flat black or white cushions which stacked like striped playbricks when not in use . |
| 11 | And they 're als they 're also wearing trousers as well underneath the smocks ? |
| 12 | As late as 1960 all of the ‘ officers ’ , as the Lord Chancellor 's legal staff were known , not officials as elsewhere in the civil service , were able to sit around a not particularly large octagonal table in the Permanent Secretary 's room at his fortnightly office meetings . |
| 13 | Any particular location only appeared once in the 48 stimuli , however , stimuli consisted of 24 pairs where the two films in any pair showed an identical manoeuvre in similar traffic conditions although not at the same location . |
| 14 | In the present climate of successful superpower arms limitation talks it is likely that there will be substantial changes if not in the level of military budgets , in their composition . |
| 15 | Mm , well , bread on the waters if not on the waters of the Severn , any other comments ? |
| 16 | On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . |
| 17 | Erm , you can other problems as well with the space characters , got no memory . |
| 18 | Could we add mosques as well to the churches , please ? |
| 19 | Fellow workers approach with any problems they might have and managers as well throughout the North . |
| 20 | The Leeds researchers claim that the system developed there , the adjournment system , has resulted in lower truancy rates than elsewhere in the country . |
| 21 | VI , of the widely-ratified Non-Proliferation Treaty , and is embodied in general terms as well in the Charter of the United Nations and in a variety of formal resolutions adopted over the years by the General Assembly ; and |
| 22 | ‘ Well , all I can say is that there is a whole lot of bloody sheep as symbols as well in the Christian religion , ’ said Alison as she packed up her ‘ baroque ’ fiddle . |
| 23 | First , as a criticism of the sheer impracticability of the grandiose project Owen had in 1833 put to the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes and which still survived in the objectives though not in the activities of its even shorter-lived successor , the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union , the Webbs ' case succeeds . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , a quiz buff at Shildon 's fair to maudlin match on Saturday asked which British club can claim most international caps won by players while still at the club ? |
| 25 | And where do you imagine we collect our stores if not in the city ? |
| 26 | The response to the CBSO concerts was luke warm so I decided to postpone booking tickets until later in the year — let me know if you 'd be interested . |
| 27 | Your early conditioning : the latest psychological fad in America is for pregnant women to talk to their babies while still in the womb . |
| 28 | Corner goes in deep Pearce getting up well and Ward got up better than anyone and good safe hands as well by the keeper . |
| 29 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 30 | Under Welch and Redfarn , The Theatre Royal has co-funded productions with other theatrical managements and a consortium of West Country businessmen , embracing such shows as Up On The Roof , Brigadoon and the about-to-open Buddy , as well as working with touring companies such as Paines Plough to launch a national tour of The Art Of Success . |