Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Champagne , Patrick Forbes indicates the indispensability of popping champagne corks for the success of a ball , stating that no less than 1,800 bottles of mousseux were consumed during a party held on 30 August 1739 at which Louis XV apparently attended incognito . |
| 2 | She definitely was n't about to endure the intimacy of sharing a pool with Guy Sterne . |
| 3 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 4 | Now what has happened here is that on the previous public enquiry over the Tetsworth site , Tetsworth , Great Milton and various other Parish Councils have the defence of producing sites which they think are appropriate or better than their own site , and they mentioned Wheatley . |
| 5 | I shall revert a little later to the defence of passing on . |
| 6 | Does the Attorney-General agree that the defence of using the treaty of Rome in relation to breaches of the Shops Act 1950 is pretty flimsy and slender ? |
| 7 | This is the defence of splitting . |
| 8 | In the last chapter we described the defence of splitting between the anger and the yearning aroused by the absence of the needed , safe figure . |
| 9 | In terms of the unconscious choice of partner , and the unconscious covenant between partners which we described in Chapters 3 and 4 , it is likely that extreme envy marries the envy in the other , and the defence of splitting may well be used by the couple . |
| 10 | ‘ Outlawing the defence of following superior orders , for one , ’ said David , noticing that Julia was beginning to look tired . |
| 11 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 12 | Assuming no relapse , Robson and Steve McMahon , who wore the captain 's mantle so impressively in Stockholm , are capable of winning enough possession to prevent the defence from coming under sustained pressure . |
| 13 | It is then up to the Minister to defeat the defence by proving that he had taken reasonable steps to bring the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by it , or of the person charged . |
| 14 | The hallmark of Wyllie 's All Blacks is the ability to drive the ball forward repeatedly at close quarters , sucking in the defence before opening up and ruthlessly exploit any gaps . |
| 15 | Following some near misses , Alresford scored when Dave Powell broke from a scrum and fed Richard Gander who drew the defence before returning the ball for Powell to touch down . |
| 16 | The £2.2-million signing from Spurs took a Dean Saunders pass and strode clear of the defence before burying a shot from just inside the area . |
| 17 | The subjects showed latent inhibition , developing the CR ( the response of approaching the site or food delivery when the light came on ) less readily than a control group that had not received pre-exposure ( Fig. 3.1 , lower panel ) . |
| 18 | The response to mounting criticism is to reorganise or complain of lack of resources . |
| 19 | The Response for Varying Radiometer Reading |
| 20 | Harold Brooks-Baker , publishing director of Burke 's Peerage , accused the Premier of palming off the British people with a phoney version of the truth . |
| 21 | The delegates had , however , gone further than the Premier by demanding on April 22 that the country 's President should henceforth be elected by popular vote , rather than by the two Houses of the Sejm , as at present . |
| 22 | Sit inside the tent before buying to get a true idea of the available space . |
| 23 | Gardeners Roadshow Owing to the inability of obtaining the services of a speaker the meeting had to be cancelled . |
| 24 | Gardeners Roadshow Owing to the inability of obtaining the services of a speaker the meeting had to be cancelled . |
| 25 | As Gentle reached the river 's other bank Pie'oh'pah turned and fled , throwing himself over the wall into the park without seeming to care what lay on the other side : anything to be out of Gentle 's sight . |
| 26 | This road winds through the Park before rejoining the A361 . |
| 27 | The centre-piece of his plan was the Banqueting House , which would be opened up to the park by demolishing the Horse Guards . |
| 28 | The notorious ‘ Hyde Park railings affair ’ , when an angry political assembly of more than 100,000 people invaded the park by smashing down the gates and fences , had left a particularly deep impression on Arnold 's already troubled mind . |
| 29 | The addition of learning skills and the intelligent construction of knowledge through exploration gradually becomes a predominant feature of the transactional style . |
| 30 | The addition of implies that any aggregate demand shock will have a drawn-out effect on real output : a positive value of will , ceteris paribus , lead to a positive value for ( that is , output will be above its natural level ) ; next period , even in the absence of a positive value for will be positive because of the influence of the positive value of . |