Example sentences of "[n mass] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 2 | INFORMATION required on a rescue attempt by a Walrus which went to the aid of B-17 2102610 Boomerang on Saturday December 30 , 1944 , after it had crashed into the sea approximately 16 miles off Beachy Head . |
| 3 | POSC began life in November 1990 as a three year effort backed by $15m funding plus membership fees of up to $100,000 which depend on the organisation 's size . |
| 4 | In 1935 he helped to form the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company , and thus facilitated the development of the Hurricane aircraft which fought in the Battle of Britain ( 1940 ) . |
| 5 | Out of every hundred aircraft which ventured over the border , eighty-seven returned safely . |
| 6 | The Rural Areas Database brings together from the very many existing sources , data which relate to the changing countryside . |
| 7 | I have focused in this section so far on problems of analysing data which spring from the ill-defined nature of the social class variable . |
| 8 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 9 | In contrast , the data we have on the somatosensory cortex indicate that all of the areas specialize in some way and that there is no generalist area . |
| 10 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 11 | These and many hundreds of other questions , views and theories are debated endlessly by us as a group until we reach a view which satisfies us that , at least on the basis of the knowledge and data we have at the moment , we have some sort of cohesiveness . |
| 12 | We may not always be completely happy with the published data we find in the Registrar-General 's reviews but we can not accuse him of using secondary sources when his organization has , in fact , collected all the information at first hand from the people themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ After Anthony caught the cod he returned to the car park because his car was blocking somebody in , ’ explained a colleague at Sizewell B. ‘ One of his mates then stuffed the watch down the cod 's throat with a stick — I can imagine Anthony 's surprise when he started to fillet the fish back home . |
| 14 | Passers-by seized arthritic Frederick Cowen , 68 , as he hobbled from the Midland Bank with £1,500 he stole at the point of a fake gun made from a hosepipe . |
| 15 | By employing this structured procedure the designer now has control over the data he recalls from the turnkey system . |
| 16 | When tied to available well data it approximates to the base of the ‘ red bed ’ sequence of the Barren Measures . |
| 17 | Capercaillies are large black grouse which live in the coniferous forests of northern Europe . |
| 18 | Among the 14 awards presented were the Zoeftig Furniture Award of £1,000 which went to the RCA 's Adam Brinkworth and Alison Thomas for their ensemble of stool and armchair . |
| 19 | The flocks of sheep which grazed in the pastures near the villa were similar to the Soay breed — hardy creatures which produced milk and hard-wearing wool . |
| 20 | The main courses sustained the high standard , with a parrot fish in a buttery dill sauce and breast of guinea fowl which melted like the proverbial stuff . |
| 21 | Thus , if the taxpayer can show that in year 1 he had been assessed under s739 on the £100,000 which accrued to the trust then the trustees are able either in that year or in subsequent years to pay the monies out without any tax charge under s742(2) ( c ) . |
| 22 | Girobank handled £47m in retail deposits and transactions last year , which the bank says works out at £1 in every £3 which passed through the nation 's tills . |
| 23 | They will retail at cost price , plus £5 which goes to the charity . |
| 24 | It became mingled with the tales of a folk who lived in the east of your world ; they called it Adam 's Paradise . ’ |
| 25 | Sick of the slaughter of his folk he journeyed through the war-torn land to the Shrine of Asuryan , determined to invoke the aid of his god . |
| 26 | For the remaining 47% he turned to the Norwegian shipping magnate Fred Olsen who coughed up a £12 million stake in the yards . |
| 27 | In his analysis , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Intel Corp were out for blood , DEC and Compaq Computer Corp started eating their own children and ‘ the press , in a striking example of pack journalism , turned vicious , ’ playing up all the bad stuff — most notably MIPS ' financial distress — never mentioning the $50m it has in the bank — though see page three for MIPS ' disastrous results . |
| 28 | The youngest of the trio — he was a-twenty-seven-year-old ex-seminarian who had been greatly under the influence of Molloy before going to Africa — began to sing , in a terrible , faltering voice , probably the most unmelodious I ever heard from a Danuese what sounded like the first lines of ‘ O , Mighty Mountain ! ’ |
| 29 | I started work with a fishmonger or a hawker rather r round the streets and when a woman cried over the window for fish I ran up the stairs and delivered it . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , by the way , Blair , ’ I called , ‘ whilst you are there , would you mind bringing me the fish I caught in the stream ? |