Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 2 | The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister , Mahmud Va'ezi , visited Bonn on Dec. 11-12 for discussions which centred on the hostage issue . |
| 3 | The ISD programming team also did their bit by charging colleagues in ISD for calls they made to the Helpdesk , raising around £2OO . |
| 4 | They seem to have moved firstly to the coastal places of the west , and then inland along the river valleys — natural enough for groups who rowed across the North Sea and the Channel in open shallow-draught boats . |
| 5 | It is possible and convenient to select a perspective on the scope , associations and labels for subjects which coincides with the way in which those subjects are handled in the literature . |
| 6 | Pupils will be encouraged to use printed lists of keywords when the system is fully operational , One difficulty here is to create keys for subjects which begin with the same first three letters e.g. FARMING and FAROES but the school librarian sees this as a useful information problem for pupils to tackle . |
| 7 | Traditionally we think of market prices as signals which lead to the co-ordination of economic activities ( no unwanted shortages or surpluses ) . |
| 8 | For readers who live in the Republic of Ireland and want to book , just phone one of Butlin 's Dublin agents . |
| 9 | So each interviewer goes out hunting for informants who fit into the right boxes — or quotas . |
| 10 | Even though the merger of these sections of capital has brought industry and finance closer together , especially through directors who sit on the boards of both industrial firms and financial institutions , the affect seems to have often been stultifying for the manufacturer . |
| 11 | I am talking about phrases which speak to the country by capturing its mood or its hopes . |
| 12 | There she quit the throughway , to race along feeder lanes , dodging through refugees who shrank from the fleeting , faceless , coaly-skinned woman . |
| 13 | Much debate has centred round the relative significance of these interacting factors , and how they may apply to related baboons such as drills which range on the floors of rain forests . |
| 14 | Reviewing recent historiography of the Reformation , Christopher Haigh has pointed out the constantly shifting conflicts between factions which existed in the English court between 1527 and 1553 . |
| 15 | Through circumstances which developed during the sale of tickets for this function the numbers attending were smaller than usual . |
| 16 | Geographically isolated and heavily policed because of the number of VIPs who live in the constituency , it is not an easy target for the gunman or bomber seeking a swift escape from his latest atrocity . |
| 17 | There are also a number of projects which concentrate on the production of materials and resources for educational use . |
| 18 | Its research programme comprises a range of projects which focus on the role and function of law in society . |
| 19 | The tendency to centralise power over time is frankly admitted by the Commission , albeit diplomatically : ‘ the list of policies which qualify on the grounds of being more efficiently discharged at Community level than at national level is likely to evolve gradually over time . |
| 20 | Cross-class interests form the potential basis of cleavages which cut across the exploiter — exploited dichotomy of classical Marxism . |
| 21 | Det Con Dave Stanmore of Bootle CID said : ‘ It was a despicable crime which caused a lot of distress to the families of servicemen who died during the war . |
| 22 | This is then built-up to a six-carbon monosaccaride or else enters a series of reactions which result in the regeneration of ribulose diphosphate . |
| 23 | The famous metro had been built by the trench method involving the demolition of houses which lay in the path of the tracks . |
| 24 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 25 | Over the next century Bretonnian territory is gradually cleared of Orcs who take to the mountains and forests to escape the king 's knights . |
| 26 | Do you think the fact that the French erm constitution and the French administration is so different from the British administration , this leads to some of the erm occasional tangles and differences of views we have between the British and French ? |
| 27 | Neither do we find any reference to the thousands of Canadians who served with the US Army in Vietnam , though one must assume that at least some sources for this subject have been published . |
| 28 | John Lyons , for instance , while complaining that ‘ much linguistic theorising is vitiated by the uncritical transference by linguists and philosophers of attitudes which derive from the cultural peculiarities of English and a few other so-called world languages ’ ( 1982 ) , himself goes on to rest part of his view of literacy , implicitly , on exactly such ‘ cultural peculiarities ’ of written English . |
| 29 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 30 | The formation of Purbeck left the so-called Island with a great variety of strata which resulted in the striking scenery of Swanage and its bays , cliffs and headlands . |