Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the quarto labels ‘ the First SONG ’ runs right through from ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ to ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ Purcell divided this into no fewer than five separate numbers : the countertenor solo ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ ; the trio ‘ May the god of wit inspire ’ — without the chorus repeat specified in the quarto , but duly followed by what it labels ‘ a Composition of Instrumental Musick , in imitation of an Eccho ’ ; a chorus which , instead of repeating ‘ May the god of wit ’ , sets the first line of the second stanza , ‘ Now join your warbling voices all ’ ; and finally a solo , ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ , this time with the specified chorus repeat . |
| 2 | In both types of chromatography , portions of each component remain dissolved in the mobile phase . |
| 3 | The first time they tried out death in the arena the Christian got infected by the general bloodlust and bit the lion . |
| 4 | Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was . |
| 5 | The first half had virtually passed Ferdinand by , but at least the £5 million-rated QPR striker got involved after the break although without much success . |
| 6 | His ghost became known as the Bad Lord , it being a noxious POLTERGEIST who irritates the family 's descendants more as time goes by — roaring in the cellars , splintering furniture and frightening maidservants . |
| 7 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 8 | The area north of Bedford House , which itself was just north of the Green , consisted of orchard and market garden land , so Mr. Carr 's idea led to the area of Bedford Park becoming known as the first Garden Suburb , with three principal architects designing the buildings , Norman Shaw , E.W. Godwin and E.T . |
| 9 | An international problem for many years , inflation is in part fuelled by governments printing money simply to maintain standards of living — unfortunately this technique has led to the undermining of the future prospects of the very people it was supposed to help . |
| 10 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 11 | The nearest any western fighting technique has come to the eastern martial arts , is in the French art of ‘ la Savate ’ . |
| 12 | Far from receiving a discount the purchaser arriving at the average high street store which a bunch of fivers in most cases pays more for his new washing machine or bicycle because the retailer has factored into the pricing structure the credit card company 's fee ( which can range from one to four per cent ) . |
| 13 | Over a longer period , environmental protection has developed within the EC from an unacknowledged sector of public policy to one of the central components in the strategy for European integration . |
| 14 | The regulation distance that a soakaway must be from the nearest building has increased over the years . |
| 15 | Work on improving the fire safety of the George IV Bridge Building has continued throughout the year . |
| 16 | Smallholder agriculture has led to the concentration of people being three times that that would support shifting cultivation in some areas . |
| 17 | The range of courses presently available , both advanced and non-advanced , has grown in piecemeal fashion , largely in response to the technological revolution which British agriculture has achieved over the last 30 years . |
| 18 | IBM Corp has gone to the Distributed Computing Solutions arm of General Atomics Inc , San Diego for its UniTree file and storage management software ‘ for use and distribution on the entire line of IBM computers , ’ although it seems likely that it will be confined to running under Unix for now . |
| 19 | Two months after Apple Computer Inc released a Catalan version of its System 7 , Microsoft Corp has jumped on the bandwagon and announced Catalan editions of MS-DOS 5.0 , Windows 3.1 , and a spell-checker and dictionary for Word for Windows 2.0 . |
| 20 | Nippon Digital Equipment Corp has teamed with the Japan distributor for Informix Software Inc , ASCII Corp , to sell Informix relational database software and the Wingz spreadsheet on its Ultrix and Alpha systems . |
| 21 | Nippon Digital Equipment Corp has teamed with the Japan distributor for Informix Software Inc , ASCII Corp , to sell Informix relational database software and the Wingz spreadsheet on its Ultrix and Alpha systems . |
| 22 | IBM Corp has been rumbling uncomfortably about repositories for Unix and Waltham , Massachusetts-based Cortex Corp has leaped into the breach with Version 5.0 of its repository-based application generator CorVision , now available for Unix where the company has hitherto concentrated the product on the Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS market . |
| 23 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 24 | Now the hardware side , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has responded to the waves of criticism by saying that it will make its silicon designs available to some semiconductor fabricators so that they can make , sell and support chips based on those designs worldwide . |
| 25 | If the Church and secular press is anything to go by , a period of intense lobbying has begun with the various groups and interests within the Church of England backing their preferred candidates , or perhaps as significant , blacking others . |
| 26 | Charity fundraising has continued over the years , and many worthy projects have received Kent support . |
| 27 | The financial strength that the trade union link has brought to the Labour Part Party is vital . |
| 28 | Much of the increase in coniferous woodland has resulted from the clearance and replanting of coppice , as well as the planting of unforested areas of heathland and downland . |
| 29 | British Rail has turned to the privately-owned North York Moors steam railway at Pickering instead of Brel workshops to repaint six carriages in the colours of Regional Railways . |
| 30 | Of the many factors that contribute to health and wellbeing , the role of social support has come to the fore recently as critical in understanding the relationships between peopleealth and social and material circumstances in which they live . |