Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 2 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 3 | It is the work of the resulting army of dedicated and sincere reformers who through the centuries have fought to make mankind accept that the Second Choice is the right one , that has provided , and will go on providing for ever , the real power for the production of the good that will be assigned to the storehouse that is the Created God . |
| 4 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 5 | To Slumptown have also been attracted many from other countries who during the 1950s were drawn by the glittering promises of prosperity diligently advertised by Great Britain . |
| 6 | The fact that Dissent appeared to flourish under toleration became a great cause for concern to those devout Anglicans who throughout the 1680s had been encouraged to believe that the only way to protect the Church and State was by a strict enforcement of the penal laws , and their anxieties were further reinforced by the sermons of the high-flying clergy . |
| 7 | These are the Chukchis , Koryaks and Itelmens of the extreme north-east and the Kamchatka Peninsula , the Yukagirs who in the seventeenth century inhabited a very large territory between Chukotka and the lower Lena , the Ainu of southern Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands , the Nivkhs of the lower Amur and Sakhalin , and the Kets of the Yenisei . |
| 8 | The Ibos in Nigeria and the Bamilike in Cameroun are both groups who in the 1950s and 1960s respectively made a bid for predominant national power ; they failed , and continue to feel excluded from the political mainstream of their countries . |
| 9 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 10 | An estimated 1,400,000 people were eligible to vote to elect officials who in the past had been appointed by the President . |
| 11 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 12 | The plan was to monitor communications of American organisations and individuals who in the eyes of the NSA wanted to foment civil disturbance or otherwise undermine the security of the United States . |
| 13 | The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties . |
| 14 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 15 | The age cohorts who in the 1980s constitute the very old population over 85 are characterized by high rates of childlessness . |
| 16 | It was GT 's Geoffrey Harrison who recently lambasted farmers who during the more buoyant 80 's had been ‘ obsessed with the idea that they should not pay tax . ’ |
| 17 | There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit . |
| 18 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |
| 19 | They included some senior generals who over the previous months had been criticized in the Belgrade media for poor leadership in the military campaigns in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | Here is the sad story of the initiation of a new dealer at Eyas Securities who for the purposes of this book shall be called Sandra . |
| 21 | He was able to take characters who at the start seemed ordinary enough , if prone to human weaknesses and vices , and to elevate them into the world of the scarcely real , of adventures and encounters riddled with the absurd . |
| 22 | And so the last page or so is given over to French names : Corbière and Jammes and De Regnier ; Tailhade and Romains ; Vildrac , Spire and Arcos — poets who at the present day have few readers even among the French . |
| 23 | Situated in a conservation area in the historical town of Lewes , Millers derives its name from the millers who in the 19th century sold their produce from the front parlour ( now the dining room ) . |
| 24 | With some reason , former President Nixon has said , ‘ The ‘ Imperial President ’ was a straw man created by defensive congressmen and by disillusioned liberals who in the days of FDR and John Kennedy had idolized the ideal of a strong presidency . ’ |
| 25 | But that 's cold comfort to the players who for the past two months or so have been attempting to qualify for the PGA European Tour . |
| 26 | Temporary classrooms are being built at two schools in Stroud for children who at the moment do n't have a school . |
| 27 | Many Iraqis felt they had paid a heavy price for progress — the country was run by a tightly-knit group of military men who in the name of the Baath ( Resurrection ) Party suppressed all opposition . |
| 28 | It is all part of gathering more power , whatever may be said by the Government about his intentions int into the hands of Whitehall and into the hands of ministers who at the moment will be Conservative , but very shortly I think are likely to be Labour . |
| 29 | Specialists believe the discovery could eventually allow the use of drugs to correct the fault and reduce the risks for women who by the age of 50 have a 60 per cent chance of developing one of those cancers if they carry the defective gene . |
| 30 | … and follow in the footsteps of the thousands of men and women who in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries left Ulster to seek a new life in America . |