Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 2 | The Sir Richard Arkwright and Company mill at Cromford , a familiar sight to travellers along the main Derby-Buxton-Manchester road , only ceased spinning in November 1991 — latterly as part of the Coates Viyella group . |
| 3 | There was a fire-hole in the centre of the room , presumably for warmth in the winter . |
| 4 | Local dairies , bacon factories and packing stations produce butter , cheese , dried milk , bacon , eggs and chickens mostly for shipment across the Irish Sea to the large mainland markets . |
| 5 | In their overheated frustration this Monday evening at Old Trafford they let themselves down badly through ignorance of the laws of cricket . |
| 6 | People murmured that this would never have happened in Cromwell 's day , albeit secretly for fear of the authorities . |
| 7 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 8 | Former Civic Forum chairman and federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus was elected overwhelmingly as chairman of the new party . |
| 9 | It is sent to our secretary , who has the considerable task of arranging the pages into a form suitable for photo-copying , inserting photographs , and if necessary reducing then to the correct size , etc. for insertion into the gaps left in the text . |
| 10 | A smiling Hannon simply said : ‘ The ground has come right for Assessor in the Doncaster Cup . ’ |
| 11 | Depressed moods are the most difficult moods for dieting , and such is the mood-lifting effect of exercise that it is even being used medically as part of the treatment for depression . |
| 12 | Academic subscribers included Edmund Halley , Astronomer Royal , the Professor of Modern History at Oxford , the Provost of Oriel , Professors of Botany at both Dublin and Edinburgh Universities and the Vice-Master of Trinity , expressly for use in the Library of that Cambridge College . |
| 13 | As the cyclist who organised the commuter challenge , I agree with Bernard Povey ( letters , 5 July ) that the route from Currie to the city centre is downhill for part of the way . |
| 14 | Vowels are recognized most effectively as part of the pattern and rhythm of the whole sentence . |
| 15 | Some Anglophile girls in Adidas plead fruitlessly for admission to the bus in the hope of getting a piece of Clint . |
| 16 | While the Action Teams have a major role to play in implementing local initiatives , they are not working on their own , but rather as part of the overall Making Belfast Work strategy . |
| 17 | I would have thought it would have been better in the introduction rather as part of the minutes , would you not have thought so ? |
| 18 | Despite general neglect of the country 's heritage , restoration is a popular topic for debate , perhaps as compensation for the lack of action . |
| 19 | Kathleen Kenyon , the excavator , recognized two deposits , but since there were coins of the House of Theodosius in each , it can be assumed that they accumulated over a fairly short period , perhaps as rubbish from the nearby forum . |
| 20 | If any Mercurian core separated from the mantle then it is likely that mantle temperatures became high enough for differentiation within the mantle to occur , the less dense substances moving upwards to form a crust . |
| 21 | It is a major procedure in these patients , and , unfortunately , not all patients are fit enough for surgery at the time of referral . |
| 22 | A common tactic is first to brand the victims as ’ communists ’ this has provided justification enough for murder in the past . |
| 23 | However , his elves are very like fallen angels , quite similar enough for confusion in the minds of fallible men . |
| 24 | It was not far , it has to be said , but far enough for enrolment with the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps , later known as the Royal Pioneer Corps , to secure release from internment . |
| 25 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 26 | The twenty-fifth defendant , Wessex , is sued more prosaically for breach of the contract dated 1 April 1988 which has been repudiated by Wessex on the grounds of fraud . |
| 27 | The Socialist League still took the view that only through work in the Labour Party was there any possibility of building a united labour movement . |
| 28 | The speaker is thus identified , but in an oblique way , which the reader can comprehend only through familiarity with the idiomatic use of ‘ gather ’ as meaning ‘ to deduce or conclude from something heard or read ’ . |
| 29 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |
| 30 | Three tries in four championship matches , and those against a weak defence , does not speak much for potential in the Scottish backs . |