Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed Lukes has very plausibly argued that equality of opportunity fundamentally conflicts with the idea of equal concern and respect ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 126 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | left hand right hand Only helices of the same hand entwine together . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only houses in the D-H bands face increases . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nowadays , only clubs in the Football League , the Vauxhall Conference and the Beazer Homes and Diadora Leagues can enter the Senior Cup . |
| 12 | Even for those sixty , there were only vacancies in the circuits for twenty-seven . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well as she said , it 's only minutes down the road and they say do n't come into it . |
| 15 | They were only minutes from the railway station , the service was frequent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It lasted only minutes by the clock and I thought , perhaps , I was over-tired . |
| 18 | Only minutes before the final whistle , Halliday weaved his way infield , causing the disruption from which Morris was to score . |
| 19 | Shamir reached the coalition agreement only hours before the deadline set by President Chaim Herzog for the formation of a new government . |
| 20 | The announcement came only hours before the Lok Sabha convened for the annual budget session . |
| 21 | An agreement was finally reached , only hours before the beginning of the new fiscal year , but this was defeated in Congress on Oct. 5 . |
| 22 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 23 | The court heard Hayton had drunk five pints of lager only hours before the accident . |
| 24 | Uniformed police and plainclothes detectives were also present in even greater numbers than had originally been planned after an elaborate bomb hoax only hours before the funeral . |
| 25 | It came only hours after the Agriculture Minister , Mr John Gummer , said he was confident that most farms receiving lead-tainted animal feed had been tracked down . |
| 26 | The paper says Philips presented its plans to analysts only hours after the presentation of its 1992 annual results almost three weeks ago . |
| 27 | After ‘ The Greek Miracle ’ leaves the Met , the next special exhibition will be of Hellenistic and Roman cameos , bringing together objects from the Met collection and from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna . |
| 28 | It is remarkable , for instance , how seldom allegations of Hitler 's material corruption occur in the 1,400 or so cases among the Munich ‘ Special Court ’ files in which people stood specifically accused of a wide variety of insulting comments about the Führer . |
| 29 | Within the British political culture it is rare for workers ( even manual industrial ‘ proletarians ’ ) to consider the wholesale expropriation of the property of another class as a reasonable political option , but if the financial institutions insist they are only guardians of the people 's savings then why should the ‘ people ’ not call them to account ? |
| 30 | To check clash , only entities in the interference zone need be selected , thus a minimum amount of data is converted , and displayed on the user 's workstation . |