Example sentences of "sway [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | sways under the waves |
| 2 | On the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu in south-east India , the Pallava Dynasty which held sway during the fourth to eighth centuries traces its lineage to Naga ancestors , as do many Royal families in Kashmir in the north of India . |
| 3 | That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years . |
| 4 | Once the sailor has ‘ climbed the rigging ’ , which is usually an energetic process , he ‘ looks out ’ , remaining stationary except for a slight sway as the boat sails out of harbour . |
| 5 | But as usual I affected a supreme unconcern , and floated past them with a sway of the hips that was a touch exaggerated . |
| 6 | This was a man entirely under the sway of the Eternal and not of the material . |
| 7 | The Intermediate and Interior areas together made up the Kandyan districts , the geographical area under the sway of the former Kandyan Kingdom . |
| 8 | For many people , particularly those brought up under the sway of the Judeo-Christian religions , physical control of emotional expression is learnt at an early age , and by adulthood can be practised to a high level of subtlety and skill . |
| 9 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 10 | The drawing had a sprightly vigorous line , and there was a pleasing rhythmic balance between the sway of the wild man 's body and the crouch of the snarling beast . |
| 11 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 12 | Jerry 's eyes stay with the sway of the beer , like a starving dog . |
| 13 | Here the object of make is felt to be completely under the sway of the subject and so to have no initiative of its own : the causal agent brings about a change in this object in an immediate fashion without any room for a condition–consequence or stimulus–reaction relationship . |
| 14 | But you could feel the sway of the tower when in a in a heavy gale of wind . |
| 15 | According to a report by Dr Chris Van Sway of the government funded Dutch Butterfly Foundation , the Netherlands has lost 15 of its 63 species and 10 more could be under threat . |
| 16 | It was , however , as we have seen , one of the great issues of the seventeenth century whether the Crown or Parliament was to hold the dominant sway under the English constitution , and it was in this context that Parliaments of England declared themselves to be ‘ sovereign ’ . |
| 17 | The Chief Constable said it was clear hard-liners now held sway within the republican movement . |
| 18 | As we can see , Alvarez' balanced strategy also holds sway in the bass arena . |
| 19 | However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s : |
| 20 | At the turn of the twentieth century , this ‘ majority rule ’ , as it was known , held sway in the US ; thus denying a shareholder the right to sue a director who used inside information in face to face transactions . |
| 21 | What is now holding sway in the super-ego is , as it were , a pure culture of the death instincts , and in fact it often enough succeeds in driving the ego into death , if the latter does not fend off its tyrant in time by the change round into mania . |
| 22 | House is perhaps mistaken in believing that individualist values have always held sway in the UK . |
| 23 | ‘ You will know of our history and you will know that we were sent into that slumber many hundreds of years ago , by the Dark Lords who held sway in the reign of the High King Cormac . ’ |
| 24 | On Monday afternoon and evening Toby once again enjoyed undisputed sway in the boarding annexe of Burleigh . |
| 25 | OLD boy networks , Freemasonry and chapel membership were believed to hold undue sway in the decisions of some Welsh councils , MPs were told yesterday . |
| 26 | Was there an actual sway in the tower itself ? |
| 27 | Oh yes there was an actual sway in the tower . |
| 28 | Nineteenth-century forms and styles held sway until the 1920s when they were replaced by their horrendous antithesis — Functionalism . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding claims made by these systems to limit the role of the police in criminal investigations , it will be pointed out that police results have even greater sway on the continent than in England . |
| 30 | If there is a life hereafter , then surely we will find Fred Daly strolling down an Elysian Fairway , whistling in his own inimitable style , his gallery enthralled by the perceptible body sway on the backswing before launching a colossal drive from the tee , enchanted by the purity of his iron play and driven to distraction by precisely 32 lifts of the putter blade from the back to the top of the ball before he sends it with authority into the cup . |