Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bustle at London termini to load newspaper trains ended in july when BR terminated the contracts remaining after the previous year 's transfer to road by News International and the Mirror Group . |
| 2 | Try to code the acts according to the Sinclair and Coulthard system and show how they combine into motives and exchanges . |
| 3 | These measures may have unsettled the crowds gathering on the campuses but did not stop them . |
| 4 | They were by now in Piccadilly Circus , which was as bright as day , and were surrounded by the crowds streaming from the theatres , cafés and dives which populated the area , painted ladies of a certain character being prominent among them — as well as the enthusiastic amateurs who had come up from the East End to make a few pennies , or even be given supper , as a price for their favours . |
| 5 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 6 | They were ponderous and unfunny , and never reached an end before some new miracle in the audience brought the crowds milling round the stage , shouting and pushing and throwing gifts . |
| 7 | He 's even lightened the kerfing ( the strips running around the internal edges of the body ) by steam-bending thin pieces of solid maple to fit the exact curve , and then carving the wood away to the absolute minimum . |
| 8 | You stand on St Saviour 's Point to see him going out between the forts , the seabirds flocking after his boat , the ropes screaming in the sheaves as the sails are hoisted . |
| 9 | They must then choose their wave again to carry them out and up with the swell so they can seize the ropes dangling from the platform . |
| 10 | There is no requirement for costs payable out of the bankrupt 's estate , be they the costs of the petitioning creditor or the costs of the solicitors acting for the trustee , to be taxed ( r 7.34 ) . |
| 11 | It is all too easy to find that the only properly planned meetings are the ones at which exchange of contracts and completion take place and those are meetings which are usually orchestrated by the solicitors acting for the buyer and the seller . |
| 12 | The solicitors at the end of the chain are asked to release their contract for a specified period of time to the solicitors acting for the buyer next in line . |
| 13 | By the time the two week World Film Festival winds down at the beginning of September most of the cinephiles standing in the long queues at the box office have no idea what they 're waiting for ; they 'll watch anything that moves . |
| 14 | On 11 December 1990 , the General Commissioners issued precepts , under s 51(1) , TMA 1970 , requiring the companies to provide them with information and the accounts relating to the appeals , specifying a time limit of 50 days . |
| 15 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 16 | While the institutions rushing for the exit have been the small British firms , the institutions entering these markets — in addition to a number of major British banks — have been the comparatively enormous foreign houses . |
| 17 | I am under no illusion on that score , he wrote , I am under no illusion that the big glass will in an instant blow all that away , flatten the critics against the walls , tear paintings from their places , bring the galleries tumbling to the ground . |
| 18 | ACTION : Firemen haul on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames raging through the flats |
| 19 | He failed to notice the flames licking around the drawers of the filing cabinet . |
| 20 | ‘ That variety of horrors art has spread at the bottom [ of Coalbrookdale ] ; the noise of the forges , mills , etc. , with all their vast machinery , the flames bursting from the furnaces with the burning of the coal and the smoak of the lime kilns , are altogether sublime . ’ |
| 21 | The summit was reached at 7pm four days later , the climbers descending in the dark . |
| 22 | Instead of the glorious celebrations they had hoped for , Christmas Eve saw the climbers racing down the mountain trying to escape 100mph winds in -50C temperatures . |
| 23 | This research explores the discourses of class in terms of the meanings clustering around the ideas of work and of community . |
| 24 | Rosenberg could sense the counter-accusations ringing across the Atlantic , the worst of them perhaps unspoken : Americans had idealist and somewhat puritan expectations of how Dr Aveling should have behaved , Americans are a simple people , literal-minded and dependent on secondary sources of information . |
| 25 | Many clinicians have seized the opportunities implicit within the clinical directorate structure believing that in a cash limited system the most positive response to any threat to clinical freedom is to become involved in the discussions stemming from the financial restriction . |
| 26 | I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower . |
| 27 | Back home , I took down a catalogue of works by Leslie Hakim-Dowek , one of the artists exhibiting in the show . |
| 28 | I think all you need is a libretto translation in the case of opera and translations of Lieder , and brief biographical details in the case of the artists performing on the discs . |
| 29 | But as opposed to the exhibition of the Societe Normande de Peinture Moderne of the previous year , the majority of the artists showing at the Section d'Or were Cubists or painters directly influenced by the movement , and the effect made must have been concentrated . |
| 30 | It tasted good , but the only resemblance to tea was in the tealeaves floating on the top of the liquid . |