Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mid-1970s onwards a number of factors began to threaten the continued existence of this ‘ single capacity ’ system : |
| 2 | While many British evacuees drifted back to the cities once the threat of an invasion had been lifted , refugee children were actively discouraged from returning to the urban life . |
| 3 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 4 | Well that one really is I mean cos I see them up in the woods quite a lot |
| 5 | A major responsibility , particularly in the hours following the blast , was to help reduce panic by providing as much information as possible concerning the dead and injured , and those who were missing or left homeless . |
| 6 | We can juggle the hours around a bit to fit in with other things . ’ |
| 7 | I think when you look at the the policies collectively and the policies individually the strategy of protecting the open countryside is implicit within those policies . |
| 8 | However , if the settlor can control the investments etc a point may be reached where the line has been transgressed . |
| 9 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 10 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |
| 11 | If the geometric domains are to be described by their orthogonal excursions in the local space of the objects then a pin forced to the bottom of a hole will have a five boundary touching condition . |
| 12 | Lifting economies out of recession is easy compared with deciding when to re-apply the brakes so the economy does not overheat later . |
| 13 | If a moving enemy has triggered the Fanatics then the enemy unit is halted at 8″ away . |
| 14 | Nails slept at the stables almost every night , apparently going home for breakfast . |
| 15 | You may need to fiddle with the valves quite a bit to get the right balance between the different outlets . |
| 16 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 17 | Earlier in the season so many wasps ( or guêpes , as they call them ) were being caught that the gardener was having to empty the traps twice a day . |
| 18 | One is not free to deny that when one 's action actually helps one of the parties then the profit is not a valid reason , for that is to abandon the case and adopt the view of neutrality espoused according to which neutrality is determined by the consequences of one 's action . |
| 19 | At times , in the months following the return from Germany , he had actively hated it and all the people who did belong . |
| 20 | In the months following the end of the civil war , parliament 's New Model Army , which contained large numbers of soldiers who had rejected the Presbyterian establishment in favour of greater religious toleration , grew steadily more and more disenchanted with its masters . |
| 21 | Such was the message put across by Francoist propaganda in the months following the end of hostilities . |
| 22 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 23 | ‘ My love … ’ he said , the words barely a whisper , the scent of plum blossom in the room intoxicating . |
| 24 | It only came out a couple of times , and I could n't get the words apart the end where it sounded something like ‘ scores off the bar , F*CK CANTONA , Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Brian Deane ’ . |
| 25 | He shuddered , the words almost a whisper . |
| 26 | In the centuries following the Conquest there gradually developed separate styles of penmanship for the two main purposes for which calligraphy was employed . |
| 27 | The difference between us and those other publications , however , was that NSS was still on the newsstands almost a week after everyone knew that the Tories were back with an overall majority . |
| 28 | In this way the Psalms were read through every twenty-four hours and the Gospels once a week , so that , as Bishop Hacket noticed , ‘ there was no intermission day nor night … they kept sentinel at all hours and seasons to expect the second coming of the Lord Jesus ’ . |
| 29 | All we have to do is report to the parents once a year it does n't say that everything has to be on the report sheet at the same time it may well be some information goes at one particular time and some at another . |
| 30 | With the trigrams however the graph appears to still be ascending quite rapidly , suggesting that a larger corpus will discover many more trigram transitions . |