Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historical and geographical facts were intertwined : the country had been ‘ founded in 1821 after fighting between the Zulus and the Boers ’ ; it was surrounded on all sides by South Africa and contained mountain ranges , and so on . |
| 2 | Om Prakash Chauthala resigned as the Janata Dal Chief Minister of Haryana on May 22 after serving in the post for less than seven months . |
| 3 | It is , however , difficult to account for properties 1 and 2 without appealing to the anthropic principle . |
| 4 | Samantha Forsythe , prosecuting , said Williams and two other men broke into Keele 's biology department at about 7am on July 10 after driving from the North-West in a stolen car . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , 300 women were arrested in Isfahan on July 26 after protesting against the Islamic dress code . |
| 6 | 10 In determining for the purposes of this Act whether a house is unfit for human habitation , regard shall be had to its condition in respect of the following matters — repair , stability , freedom from damp , internal arrangement , natural lighting , ventilation , water supply , drainage and sanitary conveniences , facilities for preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of waste water ; and the house shall be regarded as unfit for human habitation if , and only if , it is so far defective in one or more of those matters that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition . |
| 7 | The Martin Hannett-produced ‘ Get Better ’ is their second 45 since singing to the Belgian label and the band set out on a European tour in March including a date at The Locomotive in Paris on March 20 . |
| 8 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
| 9 | He joined ICI in 1984 after working in the retailing , packaging and Banking Industries , in his spare time , he 's a keen Jazz musician and photographer . |
| 10 | Mr Bush was in deep trouble as Mr Clinton won the normally Republican states of Vermont , New Hampshire and Georgia , and then carried West Virginia , which went for Ronald Reagan in 1984 before switching to the Democrats four years ago . |
| 11 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 12 | In 324 on arriving in the East he felt sure that soon he would go to the Holy Land to see the sacred sites and to be baptized in Jordan . |
| 13 | Last term , he took the Quakers into Division Three by storming to the fourth division championship . |
| 14 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
| 15 | She brushed aside criticism at the Party Conference of 1946 by asserting of the different types of school : If the teachers get the same pay , if the holidays are the same and if , as far as possible , the buildings are as good in each case , then you get in practice the parity for which the teachers are quite rightly asking . |
| 16 | Rigoberta Menchu , who won the Nobel peace prize in 1992 for fighting for the rights of Guatemala 's indigenous people , defiantly called for public protests in Guatemala city . |
| 17 | A Leading aircraftsman , he joined the RAF when it was formed in 1918 after transferring from the Royal Flying Corps . |
| 18 | The exhibitions were facilitated and curated by the Mappin Art Gallery , Sheffield and will be on show at the gallery until December 1992 before touring to the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum , Coventry in 1993 . |
| 19 | With the collapse of communism in eastern Europe the Council of Europe found a new role during 1990/91 in assisting in the establishment of democratic and legally accountable political and economic systems in eastern Europe . |
| 20 | This is an optional group as you can leave the seniors at sixteen before moving into the adult ranks . |
| 21 | If the Queen lives to 92 — and she has said she wo n't abdicate — Charles would be 70 before coming to the throne . |
| 22 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 23 | With Andrew Woolley ( 40 ) and Phil Davis ( 39 ) at the wicket the champions had reached a promising 140–4 before slumping to the young spinner . |
| 24 | Khaled Ahmad Asakra , an 18-year-old Palestinian , was arrested on May 1 after confessing to the killing of a French tourist , Anne Ley , in Bethlehem on April 30 . |
| 25 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 26 | Lady Laura was insistent : ‘ though we may feel deep pity for them , their trade is not one of blessing to the nation , to our fathers , sons , husbands ; you have to think of that . |
| 27 | The feeling for the good player who tends to have an aggravating fade with tee shots , is one of turning in the backswing and then almost trying to sit on the right foot until the moment of impact , the club getting there before the body unwinds . |
| 28 | The action of Louis XIV in sending for the first time , in 1679 , an envoy extraordinary to the imperial court in Vienna probably helped to accelerate this process . |
| 29 | Scald and skin the tomatoes by placing them in a bowl , pouring boiling water over them , counting to fifteen before pouring off the hot water and replacing it with cold . |
| 30 | 325 0 0 The Chyrurgion fees 40 0 0 Kildaltan Schoolmaster 's sellery 12 10 8 To repairing of the meeting-house at Lagavullin 20 0 0 To collectors of the cess their selleries 66 13 4 To Purchassing of the timer and house lately possessed by Lagganlochan , standing on the lands of Knockans , conforme to bill of comprizmt thereof 53 0 0 517 4 0 Which , being divided amongst 132 quarter lands , each share is 3:19:4 . |