Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 2 | For some years in the public sector and just beginning in the university sector , we see academics willing to have their teaching activities subjected to the face-to-face evaluation and commentaries of their peers . |
| 3 | He is wearing a blue tunic and around his shoulders is a fur cloak made of the skins of the hyrax . |
| 4 | The motility indices obtained from the different recording sites were averaged to obtain only one basal and one postprandial motility index for each patient . |
| 5 | In Morgan 's a nine-piece inlaid mahogany parlour suite came under the hammer at £1,950 and an upright overstrung Steinway piano went for £850 . |
| 6 | What distinguished my article , through , from the observations of those trail-blazing precursors was that it acknowledged the presence not only of the ( nonsemiological , non- ‘ signreading ’ ) public but also of the collective bliss which , whatever my own sense of alienation , the theme park experience generated among the public . |
| 7 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 8 | The Chief Fire Officer advises us that the attendance times to the areas I have mentioned are regularly over the response times allowed by the standards of fire cover . |
| 9 | Rossiskaya gazeta of May 14 carried budget plans approved by the Supreme Soviet and dated April 4 , which set the RF budget deficit in the first quarter of 1992 at Rbs. 67,500 million . |
| 10 | Taylor has stipulated that third and fourth division clubs have until the end of the decade to become all-seater , while those in the first and second divisions have just two close seasons . |
| 11 | Grammar exercises ( each preceded by examples and statement of rule ) on various verb forms occurring in the passage . |
| 12 | Presence of the base change associated with the temperature-sensitive phenotype [ 16 ] was confirmed . |
| 13 | There are no outstanding houses but the lines of brick houses grouped around the central green and round smaller greens in other parts of the village form a pleasing composition . |
| 14 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 15 | When the deposit was received , it was an advance part payment received by the business and did not belong to the customer . |
| 16 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |
| 17 | Three curriculum projects originating from the African Education Programme are briefly considered in this chapter , the African Mathematics Programme , The African Primary Science Programme ( APSP ) and the African Social Studies Programme ( ASSP ) . |
| 18 | The first is the willingness to mount genuine experimental projects ( as distinct from ‘ trial ’ or ‘ experimental ’ schools in curriculum projects committed from the very start to widespread implementation ) , the second the building up of machinery for curriculum development at local level . |
| 19 | In the centre Hercules and the Ninth Labour are depicted — the taking of the Golden Apples with the guardian snake emerging from the tree and one of the daughters of Hesperos retreating in alarm . |
| 20 | In 1990 contingency plans laid after the 1987 storm were activated , with nurseries across the country being asked to propagate from material collected from fallen trees . |
| 21 | They also accuse the general of permitting banks in Panama to launder billions of drug money made by the Colombian drug cartels . |
| 22 | The poor receive not merely the direct financial transfer in the form of transfer payments such as supplementary benefit , but also the consumption of public goods that have been paid for by income taxes raised from the rich . |
| 23 | Pitt introduced income taxes to pay for the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 24 | The wide-ranging package includes a 7.5 per cent surcharge on income tax from 1995 to help close the budget deficit resulting from the cost of financing the recovery in the east . |
| 25 | The ratio can rise either as a result of an increase in OM or through a fall in P. The only route through which OM can rise is a temporary budget deficit financed by the issue of fiat money . |
| 26 | The budget deficit quadrupled in the 1980s , and the public debt followed it into the stratosphere . |
| 27 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 28 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 29 | Figure 9.2 shows the variation of the attenuation constant α and phase shift β with the parameter u according to the theory just presented . |
| 30 | An appropriations bill , approving expenditure of $270,000 million in fiscal 1992 to carry out defence programmes planned by the authorization bill , received final congressional approval on Nov. 23 . |