Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the lawn , the cat arched its back and spat at Gaily through the glass . |
| 2 | The ventral arm plates are approximately rounded pentagonal in shape becoming broader than long and rectangular on distal segments and separated except occasionally for the second and third ventral plates . |
| 3 | It so happened that the summer was an exceptionally hot one , the yield of tomatoes in the region was unusually high , and " taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity , two thousand 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato were manufactured and despatched at once to the Savoy Hotel . " |
| 4 | Sometimes they were taken by the Dark Lords and imprisoned for ever in the Black Ireland . |
| 5 | The first is for working parents , explaining the tax rules that apply when childcare is organised and paid for either by the parents themselves or their employers . |
| 6 | The fleet was to include the ‘ Francis ’ of Fowey , captained by John Rashleigh and paid for jointly by the men of Fowey and Looe , and the ‘ John Trelawney ’ of Saltash and Tavistock . |
| 7 | But what was lacking to underpin a choice between the two was agreement among clinicians about which groups of patients could be treated and/or cared for successfully outside the asylum . |
| 8 | Their only child , christened Alastair but known for ever in the family as ‘ Mouse ’ , was born within a year of their marriage . |
| 9 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |