Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Group has added its name to the programme , organised by six of the United Kingdom 's leading voluntary organisations , which has developed well over 2,000 self-financing environmental schemes and green projects for small businesses since 1986 . |
| 32 | Friends of the Earth has added its name to the list of environmental groups which have condemned the government 's " set-aside " programme for redundant farmland , initially given a broad welcome by green campaigners . |
| 33 | He says the council has added its voice to the lobby against hunting . |
| 34 | The Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) has added its weight to the lobby for an environmentally friendly national transport policy and called for a series of measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 35 | Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards . |
| 36 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 37 | They had not confined their work to the schemes the judges selected , but looked at the remainder of the exhibition , and added eight of their own choice . |
| 38 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 39 | The fact that the thieves confined their attention to the Early Cycladic display case , ignoring many other important works , suggests that they may have been stealing to order something which is a matter of concern to museum staff and archaeologists in Greece . |
| 40 | That is illustrated by Rolls-Royce , which has quadrupled its share of the jet engine market since 1987 and , even today , by the news of the British Aerospace section , which has a £13 billion per annum order book and in size is second only to that in the United States . |
| 41 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 42 | Before long the Parachute Regiment had added their name to the backers . |
| 43 | In so doing , they will have added their mite to the expansion of one of Europe 's most unusual and successful financial groups . |
| 44 | Anne Cains , a member of Stockton area International Training in Communication has won her heat in the organisation 's national speech competition , and now goes on to compete against five other clubs in the North-East in the regional heats . |
| 45 | ‘ THEY keep on writing you off — but they 're wrong , ’ beamed a delighted Roy Inman , the women 's team manager , as Ann Hughes , Britain 's top lightweight , stepped off the mat having won her semi-final at the World Championships here yesterday . |
| 46 | Helen Zeitlin , who worked in the haematology unit at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for five years , and was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy , has won her appeal against the decision . |
| 47 | All the teams have won their division of the Sundrige this season , and six will be doing battle in the top flight of their respective regions next year . |
| 48 | He and his four fellow sixth formers at Barnard Castle School have won their way to the regional final of a music contest in Newcastle . |
| 49 | Yesterday , the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 50 | Yesterday , the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 51 | Yesterday the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 52 | By evening she had picked her way down the cliff to the rocky ledges at the water 's edge , and was the object of interest of two seals , who popped their whiskery noses up from time to time to observe her . |
| 53 | The 27-year-old mother 's ordeal began when the kidnapper jumped out at her after she had parked her car at the top of a multi-storey at a shopping centre in Eastleigh , Hants . |
| 54 | It had been forty-five minutes earlier when Dr Barbara Moule had parked her Fiesta at the Chesterton Hotel , finding John Ashenden waiting for her a little anxiously . |
| 55 | Have parked their hearse outside the jewellers . |
| 56 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 57 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 58 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 59 | On July 16 Israel restored full diplomatic relations with Austria , having downgraded its representation to the level of chargé d'affaires following the election to the Austrian presidency in 1986 of Kurt Waldheim , who had attempted to conceal his wartime military service in Yugoslavia . |
| 60 | That is why we have pursued its progress in the changes of society , as well as through individual story-telling . |