Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [det] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Year 's day , 1945 , was no holiday for Sugar and the other crews at Waddington , for the target that night was the Gravenhorst-Mittelland canal , but on the return bad weather again forced Sugar to divert to Scotland , this time to Lossiemouth . |
| 2 | But as David Bull says in his reply , even if we have misgivings about the way any campaign is handled , let's hope we are not deterred from getting on with the job in hand ! |
| 3 | Nathan felt uncomfortable about the way this man was looking at him . |
| 4 | Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months . |
| 5 | ‘ I fought here 22 years ago , about the time this kid was about to get potty-trained , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Turnbull explains through the interpreter that time is short ; it is late ; there is a great war on with the Germans . |
| 7 | Now , de Broglie , when he hypothesised matter waves , related their wavelength to the particle momentum through the equation This interpretation was taken over by Schrödinger when he invented wave mechanics . |
| 8 | Yet in the final version of the order this exclusion was omitted . |
| 9 | The promotional side of the event this year was given edge by a visiting delegation of senior decision-makers , including energy ministers and heads of state oil companies , from nine countries where oil and gas activity is expanding , including Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan and Colombia where BPX has interests . |
| 10 | In the centre of the layer this transport is brought about by the first term of eqn ( 22.11 ) : essentially just the fact that rising currents in the convection are typically hotter than falling ones . |
| 11 | Where the question before the court relates to the upbringing of the child this principle is given statutory form by section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1989 , but the test would now be the same even without the intervention of statute : see J. v. C. [ 1970 ] A.C. 668 , 697 , 724 ; In re B. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Sterilisation ) [ 1988 ] A.C. 199 , 202 , 212 . |
| 12 | Developed in the style of Eye of the Beholder this game is easily the best role playing adventure available on shareware . |
| 13 | In that little crucible of the theatre that story was demonstrated , that here were people of phenomenal talent , with an enormous amount to give , with the tremendous burning desire to express their feelings and their attitudes , and to the enhancement of other people 's lives , and how cruel it was that it was so few that got through . |
| 14 | But by the later decades of the century such conduct was becoming increasingly unthinkable . |
| 15 | It is necessary , therefore , to remember that for most of the century this admiration was not felt by most foreigners . |
| 16 | In the second half of the century this trend was reversed . |
| 17 | The use of terms such as ‘ social evil ’ and the ‘ social diseases ’ suggests a widespread fear of the social implications of prostitution , and by the middle years of the century this fear was becoming part of a general social anxiety . |
| 18 | We are operating within a of because of the government this Council is erm nett cuts of all its services of four point two million reduction of four point er two million and the policy system . |
| 19 | And the rest of the crew that morning were Billy , second coxswain , John , assistant mechanic , Jimmy and Vincent . |
| 20 | A glamorous 20-year-old who spends two hours in front of the mirror each morning is unlikely to empathise with a working mother of three . |
| 21 | Which senses or activities may suffer because of the way each landscape is being used ? |
| 22 | Now , that actually has chan is starting to change the nature of the way that government are control , seeking to control the services . |
| 23 | Er and similarly the syntax of languages are often said to be oppressive of women , a lot of the way that language is structured and a lot of the words that you get in a language , that 's another thing that 's said . |
| 24 | His own view of the way this field is structured posits two contradictory tendencies — on the one hand , music which affirms or accepts the social status quo ; on the other , music ( of the avant garde ) which refuses such affirmation . |
| 25 | We can , however , understand something of the way this land was used in more detail . |
| 26 | By the end of the decade this tendency was firmly established in the political wing of the Labour Party and had done much through its propaganda to discredit the National governments , which ruled the country from 1931 until 1940 . |
| 27 | Section 663 provides that where there is a settlement , and during the life of the settlor any income is paid to or for the benefit of a child of the settlor in any year of assessment , the income shall , if at the time of payment the child is unmarried and below the age of 18 , be treated as the settlor 's income and not the income of any other person . |
| 28 | But for most of the workforce this price is relatively high and short-lived ; money will motivate for a short time especially if it is a potentially large sum of money ( e.g. football pools , lotteries , gambling ) . |
| 29 | Once part of the common grazing of the parish this land was only finally enclosed in 1863 . |
| 30 | But most of the time such punishment is wasted because it does not produce repentance or reform . |