Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heart pounding with excitement , he barged through the door and into the dock , where Germans both on the dockside and aboard the ships ran for cover , beginning to open fire at the intruders . |
| 2 | Pubic hairs are further apart than hairs elsewhere on the body and , in particular , than the hairs of the head . |
| 3 | And why do Whites have higher rates than Blacks especially among the young in the darker areas ? |
| 4 | It was timeless : other contests set a date and trust to luck that nature will co-operate — the Triple Crown was already distinct in having a much longer window of opportunity than fixtures elsewhere on the Tour . |
| 5 | He finished the race , nevertheless , still more than 20secs ahead of the Jaguar . |
| 6 | Women as much or more than men everywhere in the world — up to 13 hours more than men in Africa and Asia and very poor women are working 60–90 hours per week just to maintain their living standards of a decade ago . |
| 7 | This is because rays from the outer parts of the lens are brought to a focus nearer the lens than rays close to the axis . |
| 8 | For a wide range of models of release ( but not all ) , trajectories as steep as or steeper than the diagonal in these plots indicate a change in the number of quanta released , whereas trajectories close to the horizontal indicate a change in postsynaptic responsiveness . |
| 9 | How could she tell him that , while women all over the country would do just about anything even to be in the same room as him , she , Shannon Lea , did n't want to touch him ? |
| 10 | Approximately one-quarter of the cases involved girls aged under 10 , one-quarter involving girls aged between 10 and 12 , one-quarter involving girls as teenagers up to the age of 18 and the remaining one-quarter of the cases involved adult women . |
| 11 | The Dorsal Arms of the Tentorium — these arise not as invaginations of the wall of the head but as outgrowths either from the body of the tentorium or from the bases of the anterior arms . |
| 12 | Of insect attack , that by bruchids of Scheelea zonensis ( Palmae ) in central America is greater , the nearer the mother plant and early survival of Virola surinamensis there is enhanced by being away from the parental crown , as seedlings closer to the bole suffer attack from weevils . |
| 13 | I 'm referring to the Russian stars Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov , who set the skating world alight as partners back in the early 1970s . |
| 14 | Their proposed solutions are transferred to schools in Europe and subsequently to schools everywhere else , and notional/functional syllabuses are peddled as nostrums all over the place as suitable for every situation . |
| 15 | That term did n't last long , though , and ‘ Plate Tectonics ’ really came into being when scientists all over the world , such as Isacks , Oliver , Sykes , Le Pichon and Morgan ( to name but a few ) , began to apply the new way of thinking to specific parts of the globe . |
| 16 | The referees for the 1991 World Cup were always going to be placed under close scrutiny by the media , as well as spectators both at the ground and watching on television , and so it turned out . |
| 17 | The relatively short toes indicate a concentration on prey which includes snakes and other reptiles , as well as mammals up to the size of small antelopes . |
| 18 | I CAN IMAGINE THE INDIGNANT HOWLS OF protest as collectors all over the country now run to their shelves to gather together a clutch of beloved performances . |
| 19 | Well , yes , that 's absolutely right , and I think we 've always taken it as part of our responsibilities here really that they should extend over towards students in schools as well as students here at the university , and we do of course do quite a lot , in various ways , across the science area , to contribute towards science in schools . |
| 20 | Greatly daring , as Non-conformists even in the war years did not go lightly into an Anglican Church , I went in and sat down . |
| 21 | Do they have ballads about transporting the two white men dressed as women up to the great watery anaconda to the south , or however they might put it ? |