Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the services of every kind asked by the voters , effective management would also involve the politician in substantial expenses , for any major political figure owed it to his position in society to give generously for any public concern . |
| 2 | Moreover , imbalances arose within the economy as a whole , in particular between consumption goods and capital goods . |
| 3 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 4 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 5 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 6 | Lally gasped and coughed , she even spat , her teeth gleamed against the mud . |
| 7 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 8 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 9 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 10 | As the Clean Air Act had left much to state initiative , congressional dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in some states led to the Air Quality Act of 1967 which at last required states to establish air quality standards consistent with federal criteria , and then to devise implementation plans setting out ways of achieving the air quality standards . |
| 11 | That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 12 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 13 | Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head . |
| 14 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 15 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 16 | In order to be able to cope with the increasing enquiry rate at the bureau , an emergency appeal to NACAB for special funding led to the appointment of a fixed-term welfare rights officer . |
| 17 | Silver cross belts blazoned battle honours across their chests and silver spurs gleamed under the table . |
| 18 | Aunt Margaret brushed her hair with the silver-backed brush which , like Winnie the Pooh , had survived the crash ; she brushed and brushed until Melanie 's black hair swirled like the Thames in flood , and then she floated all the daisies on it . |
| 19 | A note of hysteria crept into the voice from the grave . |
| 20 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 21 | His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . |
| 22 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 23 | Alexandra plunged into the wastepaper basket to retrieve the torn envelope . |
| 24 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 25 | This obstinate refusal to be a conformist explains not only the difficulties of integration that Nizan experienced within the party , but also — and this needs stressing — underlines the extent to which he succeeded in retaining intellectual autonomy and integrity within the party itself . |
| 26 | Figure 3 shows that , using a linear template , a very reduced amount of transcripts was obtained when the initiating NTPs were omitted , whereas their addition led to the formation of initiated complexes that were resistant to the heparin challenge . |
| 27 | Horowitz , more stoical , was already at the counter while his case passed through the type of machine used at airports . |
| 28 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 29 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 30 | Her rich brown hair gleamed beneath the widow 's veil ; the bone structure of her face was overlaid with a suitable pallor , but no outward sign of grief . |