Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , most lawyers take on cases on the basis that they will not ask for an upfront fee , but a percentage of the amount of damages won instead — often as much as 40% . |
| 2 | It gets political in its indictment of the corrupt railroad — it ‘ leaves two shiny , slimy tracks like a snail ’ — that is the representation of a rapaciously capitalist civilisation , and dares to traduce Fonda , Monument Valley and sundry rather icons of the Ford universe . |
| 3 | Indeed Lukes has very plausibly argued that equality of opportunity fundamentally conflicts with the idea of equal concern and respect ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 126 ) . |
| 4 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 5 | Here are some very brief ideas as to how the Pied Piper suggestions might work in practice : After the story has been read to the class , children might take on roles as the townspeople of Hamelin . |
| 6 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 7 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 8 | John , Thomas , and Richard , all carried on branches of the business and the designation ‘ Edwards of Halifax ’ is applied to them all . |
| 9 | Wootton Courtenay , a Somerset village of 90 households , three businesses ( a post office , a garage and a shop ) and a bus that comes twice a week , has recently won a battle to keep the heart of its community — the village shop — mostly thanks to the driving force of Stephen Parnell . |
| 10 | If I had to make a comparison , I can only really compare an Aeronca to some of the latest two-seat side-by-side kitplanes like the Avid Flyer . |
| 11 | This most recent work presents the viewer with images of young girls ( some of Honey 's own daughter , Daisy ) who willingly take on images from the media as their own role models . |
| 12 | left hand right hand Only helices of the same hand entwine together . |
| 13 | And in the best New York tradition , Guinness too will be a show trial — handing out not merely verdicts on the defendants in the dock but on the City at large . |
| 14 | Well there could be a whole range of different therapies that would be appropriate , depending on on the individual needs of the persons involved , erm but certainly in in a therapeutic situation erm one is able to establish a relationship with another caring adult that can readdress those erm perhaps foundations in the personality that were not able to develop appropriately in their early childhood . |
| 15 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 16 | You only have to see some of run down estates for the evidence . |
| 17 | Only houses in the D-H bands face increases . |
| 18 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 19 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 20 | Nowadays , only clubs in the Football League , the Vauxhall Conference and the Beazer Homes and Diadora Leagues can enter the Senior Cup . |
| 21 | Even for those sixty , there were only vacancies in the circuits for twenty-seven . |
| 22 | It took only minutes under the hot jets to wash the last dreamy remnants of sleep away , and then once again all the previous night 's fears came rushing back . |
| 23 | Well as she said , it 's only minutes down the road and they say do n't come into it . |
| 24 | They were only minutes from the railway station , the service was frequent . |
| 25 | In this old town mansion , only minutes from the West End , you will find a menu of some distinction , with emphasis on Spanish dishes and seafood plus a great Spanish wine selection . |
| 26 | It lasted only minutes by the clock and I thought , perhaps , I was over-tired . |
| 27 | Only minutes before the final whistle , Halliday weaved his way infield , causing the disruption from which Morris was to score . |
| 28 | Shamir reached the coalition agreement only hours before the deadline set by President Chaim Herzog for the formation of a new government . |
| 29 | The announcement came only hours before the Lok Sabha convened for the annual budget session . |
| 30 | An agreement was finally reached , only hours before the beginning of the new fiscal year , but this was defeated in Congress on Oct. 5 . |