Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 2 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 3 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 4 | The blue eyes regarded her across the stretch of mahogany desk . |
| 5 | There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions … |
| 6 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 7 | He commented : ‘ The promotion was a tremendous success thanks to the wholehearted manner in which the branches promoted it to the public . ’ |
| 8 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 9 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 10 | When my young cousin 's pet budgie died , her parents buried it in the garden while she was asleep to avoid her being upset . |
| 11 | Information is conveyed in an entertaining fashion , with brush strokes projected one after the other onto easels dotted about the technological countryside , as a way of illustrating the impressionist technique . |
| 12 | Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion . |
| 13 | But if Mr Major is at heart opposed to greater union , Britain 's policy is likely to be affected by the institutional pressures of Whitehall , which has over the years committed itself to the pro-European line . |
| 14 | We are hopeful that there will be no surcharges levied whatsoever on the cost of your holiday — but obviously fuel costs , currency movements and governmental action are outside our control , and there is only so much that we are able to absorb . |
| 15 | It proved it , the war years proved it to the people . |
| 16 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 17 | No such fears limited them in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 18 | Only once have the gods assaulted me in the guise of another person . |
| 19 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 20 | Thirty yards separated them from the catamaran . |
| 21 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 22 | The newspapers confined themselves to the show itself . |
| 23 | Darkened windows separated them from the chauffeur . |
| 24 | Mr Hikmatyar , whose strength springs largely from the favours shown him by the Americans and Pakistanis in the 1980s , is now ‘ prime minister-designate ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 25 | But scientists reconciled themselves to the fact that the answers to such questions would never be known with certainty since the fish had obviously become extinct long ago . |
| 26 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 27 | Although the people of Stowey had by degrees reconciled themselves to the presence of Coleridge , who lived in their midst with his wife and child , Wordsworth 's arrival at remote Alfoxden , with a young woman said to be his sister , provided much greater scope for speculation . |
| 28 | of times kissed her on the arse |
| 29 | Some commentators regarded him as the leader of a conservative faction which had opposed the economic reformist policies of CPV general secretary Nguyen Van Linh . |
| 30 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |