Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , imbalances arose within the economy as a whole , in particular between consumption goods and capital goods .
2 In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school .
3 first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) .
4 The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ .
5 Lally gasped and coughed , she even spat , her teeth gleamed against the mud .
6 As the Clean Air Act had left much to state initiative , congressional dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in some states led to the Air Quality Act of 1967 which at last required states to establish air quality standards consistent with federal criteria , and then to devise implementation plans setting out ways of achieving the air quality standards .
7 That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act .
8 Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land .
9 Silver cross belts blazoned battle honours across their chests and silver spurs gleamed under the table .
10 But once the contents of these plans got around the rumours died down and people began to say that the family must be coming back . ’
11 Her fingers toyed with the ends of the fine saffron scarf she wore in her hair , a floppy bow peeping provocatively from her curls just below one ear .
12 Environmental pressure groups , such as the Sierra Club , have used this right on several occasions to press the EPA to take action : for example , environmental groups argued through the courts that Congress intended the EPA regularly to issue air quality standards for pollutants that were judged to be widespread and hazardous to public health .
13 His beard and teeth got in the way .
14 The need to hire coaches arose from the fact the Supporters ' Club actively discouraged membership from fans under the age of 18 .
15 In any case other activities got in the way of getting to the Sunday services , but I managed the rehearsals and some weekday 5pm services .
16 Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University .
17 He walked to the old-fashioned kitchen range , where red-hot coals glowed behind the bars of the grate .
18 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 .
19 However , he did concede that " there were indications that some activities and individuals might have been motivated to prevent success in constitutional goals " and that " some activities led to the deaths of people " .
20 Only in the Lepismatidae and the Pterygota , however , has the evolution of transverse biting movements of the mandibles led to the appearance of a strong rigid tentorium .
21 Lamps glowed through the ports of boats , vehicles had driving lights on .
22 On the back or across the front of these photographs were signatures duplicated from the letters ; John Addington Symonds , Baron Corvo , Robbie Ross , for Boy with kindest regards from Reggie Turner .
23 The machine tools were housed to one end , the aeroplane assembled at the other , whilst the draftsmen lived in the loft .
24 My tracer passed in line with the machine but behind it , and rather than stop firing , I pulled back steadily on my control column until the tracers crept along the rear of the machine and into the cockpit .
25 None of the sixteen taxes endured by the Nikol'skaia peasants was aimed at capital held in the form of equipment .
26 Determined to defuse the crisis , the Croatian authorities complied with the Presidency 's directive and began a withdrawal on Oct. 3 .
27 Substantial debts led to the dispersal of his estates after his death , but Bognor 's reputation for health and respectability continued to attract royalty and nobility .
28 The American researchers got around the problem by synchronising a pulsed laser and a pulsed gas jet so the pulse of laser light hit the gas just as it emerged from the jet into the vacuum chamber .
29 It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’
30 It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) .
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