Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He longed for the austerities of the mission field . |
| 2 | There is a precedent for this : the Marquess of Linlithgow ( a Lowland family and therefore without its own tartan ) introduced a ‘ new ’ tartan for the warders at Hopetoun House , outside Edinburgh . |
| 3 | The events are a good reason for the enthusiasts of this largely non-social past time to gather and renew acquaintances . |
| 4 | I turned and started to head for the dunes at a slow run . |
| 5 | They were however years of pleasure compared with the five which were to follow , when , with his successor Neville Chamberlain first out of 10 , Downing Street and then dead in six months , Baldwin became a target of resentment for the perils to which the nation found itself exposed . |
| 6 | My mother must have made quite big money in tips , for the records of her savings , no longer a secret , show quite fabulous sums being stored away in the early sixties . |
| 7 | The same procedure for verification was followed as for the records of the meetings . |
| 8 | For the opponents of transmutation , this meant only that the ‘ centres of creation ’ had been active throughout the earth 's history . |
| 9 | Given that the Court had appeared poised to destroy Roe v. Wade , however , the result was generally interpreted as a defeat for the opponents of abortion . |
| 10 | One could not do exercises without knowing which exercises one was doing — especially as active mental involvement is needed for the exercises to be effective ! |
| 11 | As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’ |
| 12 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
| 13 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 14 | It was Osman 's father Mohamed who had returned in his car for the clothes for Mrs Zamzam 's children just before Um Al-Farajh was finally abandoned by the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 . |
| 15 | His style is associated with clothes and his trade is fashion photographer — but the armature for the clothes in his fashion pictures , is a " look " he invented . |
| 16 | Was he right then when he told the people of Scotland , ’ Do n't vote for the proposals of the Labour party because they do not contain any responsibility for raising revenue . |
| 17 | It was an ‘ evolutionary ’ model that was being proposed , and it was endorsed by the Council , which asked for further work to be done on some details , and for the proposals to be published . |
| 18 | The DES accompanied the report with Circular 11/77 , ‘ The Training of Teachers for Further Education ’ , in which it declared the Secretary of State 's support for the proposals in principle , together with the hope that an early start would be made on their implementation , ‘ so far as this is possible within existing resources ’ . |
| 19 | For the proposals in Gordon 's memo were agreed . |
| 20 | . So the erm Woman 's Own rubber rhyme erm begins Aahs for the runs and I modestly blush , aahs for the runs in your girdle . |
| 21 | Habituation and dishabituation , which thus fulfil the criteria for the definitions of learning given at the beginning of Chapter 6 , can be regarded as very basic and simple forms of short-term memory , adaptive mechanisms which economize on unnecessary responses and hence help to avoid fatigue . |
| 22 | This neoelitism took issue with pluralism initially in reaction to the voting studies of Berelson and others , but the major battleground was the community power debate , where the revision of democratic theory had practical implications for research methods and theoretical implications for the definitions of power . |
| 23 | For the definitions of " grant " and " new licence , " see s.139(1) . |
| 24 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 25 | For the guts of Papert 's approach is to make geometry and other once-dusty disciplines concrete . |
| 26 | Later , as Paul prays for the disciples at Ephesus and lays hands on them , they have a similar experience to the household of Cornelius , namely they speak in tongues and prophesy . |
| 27 | For the disciples round the cross the words were the pronouncement of doom : the end of hope and meaning , the extinction of faith , defeat . |
| 28 | It is common ground that it is for the governors of a voluntary aided school to decide who is to be admitted as a pupil and to lay down the admissions policy of the school . |
| 29 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 30 | Meanwhile Welsh international Mark Titley and Newbridge wing Alun Harries were putting on a show for the selectors at the Bridgend Sevens in helping their invitation team ‘ The Welshmen ’ ( management includes Messrs. Ring and Webb ) to victory 22–16 against Llanharan in the Final . |