Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Just think of this food , clothing , shoes all to come out of my earnings the average of £3.9.9d. a little more sometimes , a few shillings Bonus , and my son has been ill for the past three weeks , whos going to pay the doctors Bill also I have lost time at work through air raid warnings no pay . |
| 2 | ‘ But if you saw how miserable my poor Georg is , and how he has upset Suzi , to say nothing of my friends the Hoflins … well , I shall find it very difficult to be nice to him . ’ |
| 3 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 4 | I do n't have at the tip of my fingers the total level of funds managed , but |
| 5 | There is little doubt in my mind that the case was Nitric Acid from the very beginning but nevertheless given the imperfectness of my prescriptions the gentle stimulation of the vitality by the 50 millesimal potencies uncovered the necessary clues in the end . |
| 6 | Sepp was really Septimus , the seventh , and I called one of my calves the same name . |
| 7 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 8 | I have often put out some dried grass or leaves and had badgers make use of my offerings the very same evening . |
| 9 | He has given me and many of my colleagues the firm impression that he has listened to our recommendations and suggestions , and that he will continue to do that in the years to come . |
| 10 | ‘ After trying the fluid on a small unnoticeable area , you now wish to wash all of my trousers the spirited way , am I right , madam ? |
| 11 | In considering the exercise of their powers the local authority must take into account matters which they ought to take into account , ignore matters which they ought not to take into account and then reach a decision which is not so unreasonable that no reasonable local authority could have come to it . |
| 12 | One of their champions the prominent politician Jack Ashley , who remains an elected Member of Parliament after having been deafened at the age of forty-five , expressed their feelings in a speech delivered in 1973 : the deaf must adopt a very different attitude to society as a whole … |
| 13 | Even among women who are sure of their dates the incidence of post-term pregnancy can be halved if an early ultrasound scan is performed . |
| 14 | In a statement this evening , Thames Water apologized for the inconvenience caused , but said they must always give the welfare of their customers the highest priority . |
| 15 | ‘ Through the forced upgrading of their stadia the clubs got the chance to change their market , from a mixed business economy working and middle class fans to a single economy attracting the the middle classes , ’ says Alex Fynn , an adviser to the Football Association and head of sports marketing at advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi . |
| 16 | In the execution of their duties the foresters often had to contend with armed bands of desperate men ; in many cases they were beaten and even killed while attempting to arrest Forest offenders . |
| 17 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 18 | In the eyes of their betters the rank and file of the peasantry formed a single class with the labouring poor , the customary epithet ‘ the poor commons , covering them all . |
| 19 | Classical scholars among us will all , as students , have stood in awe of our seniors who , given a rare Greek word , could pluck out of their memories the ten contexts in different classical authors in which it was used . |
| 20 | Whatever the description the result for such individuals who take up this role is that their lives are beset by disappointment and frustration because the remainder mobilise in their own defence of their egos the kinds of myths I have indicated , or withdraw in a schizoid way . |
| 21 | Within the constraints of their courses the institutions then attempt to match potential projects to the interests and availability of individual students . |
| 22 | He also consulted protestant church leaders on the religious elements of the new constitution , a step unprecedented in catholic Ireland of his day , and gained their support on the basis of the recognition of their churches the constitution was to give . |
| 23 | And as the economic constraints push more and more farmers towards the rationalization of their enterprises the proportion of farmers ( and of the countryside ) to whom this applies is likely to increase . |
| 24 | Many convey in the physical appearance of their subjects the traditional Roman virtues of austerity and respect for authority . |
| 25 | If your young people are allowed to share their aspirations with the wisdom of their elders the benefits , one knows from experience , will be mutual . |
| 26 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 27 | Similarly in the north of England men like Harry Weatherley , until recently the Baptist Union 's Yorkshire Association 's Missioner , see as one of their goals the planting of churches before the end of the millennium . |
| 28 | On one of their travels the Bookman stopped beside a shelf in an older part of the library . |
| 29 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 30 | Second , to consider in the light of their comments the substantive and statistical issues associated with such interpretations . |