Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb base] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 're clearing up for lunch look out the window it 's the enclosed garden . |
| 2 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 3 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |
| 4 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 5 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 6 | Areas of study reflect both the old and the new concerns : they range from head-counting to Grand Theory ; they cover religious organisations and their power structures ; they examine processes such as conversion , apostasy , institutionalisation , bureaucratisation , the growth of charisma and its rationalisation ; typological distinctions are drawn ( such as those between church , denomination and sect ) ; the relationship between religion and other areas of society ( the family , education , economy and , especially , politics ) is examined from a number of angles at a number of levels ; and there is also developing an increasing number of specialist ‘ sub-disciplines ’ — such as the sociologies of Catholicism , secularism , the ministry , gender and religion , and new religious movements . |
| 7 | One reason for the ubiquity of chants lies in the fact that a large number of fans move around the country to support their team at away games . |
| 8 | Why should a faculty of theology teach only the history of Christianity or the study of language ? |
| 9 | Only by raising loans in New York and Paris could the Bank of England prop up the pound ; but foreign bankers were unwilling to risk their money unless the British Government balanced its budget . |
| 10 | Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 . |
| 11 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 12 | An experiment will be carried out in which pairs of individuals bargain over the division of a sum of money . |
| 13 | The theist denies that the boundaries of heaven begin where the boundaries of earth end . |
| 14 | But on one side there is a greenhouse and vegetables , and on the other side an army of chickens peck over the brown dirt . |
| 15 | The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes . |
| 16 | Drops of water trickle down the panes of glass . |
| 17 | Create the wrong fiscal package and a Third World country 's chances of development go down the tube . |
| 18 | Treaty on the free movement of persons cover only the pursuit of effective and genuine activities , to the exclusion of activities on such a small scale as to be regarded as purely marginal and ancillary . |
| 19 | The iridescent films of oil on top of puddles provide perhaps the best analogies . |
| 20 | But ‘ allocations to sectors based on measures of use have only the most tenuous relationship with cost generation ’ ( MMC 1980 : 27 ) and are essentially arbitrary . |
| 21 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 22 | On a single sheet of paper write down the main message of the report . |
| 23 | He said no bread would be baked this Sunday in the first of a series of one-day strikes if the 9,000 workers who produce nearly 80 per cent of loaves throw out the deal . |
| 24 | She watched groups of people come round the winners , groups of friends going into the two pubs on the harbour street , people hailing each other , saving places of vantage on the wall for their friends . |
| 25 | Physically and emotionally exhausted groups of people sit round the bed of the ill person feeling quite unable to leave even though they may have children at home or jobs to go to or a multitude of other functions . |
| 26 | At Richmond a lot of people get off the train and I take refuge in a Smoking compartment where the heat is not on . |
| 27 | lot 's of people dig up the pavement do n't they ? |
| 28 | Because I know what I 'm going to say to any kids who have the audacity to come to my house which they wo n't but erm and I 'm sure a lot of people do so the rest of the year we we 're encouraging children not to approach strangers and everything else and then this one day of the year or maybe two days or maybe the whole run-up from now until November the fifth you 've got kids begging on the street penny for the guy and all that sort of thing . |
| 29 | He reached her bottom and let a couple of drops fall down the cleft . |
| 30 | We 've only just flipped off the radio when two tons of suede appear round the side of the building . |