Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 2 | It was from Jimmy that she heard the worrying news that Vasey 's had recently been bought out some months ago by the giant Massingham Engineering . |
| 3 | The idea for an exhibition of such size around 250 exhibits from seven European countries was devised some years ago by the Dutch silver specialist Mrs A. Krekel-Aalberse with R. J. Willink of the Netherlands Office for Fine Arts and Dr J. ter Molen of the Boymans . |
| 4 | The old hand-chiselled level was opened some years ago by the writer and a description of this , along with these others , is given in the guide to the orefield and its mines . |
| 5 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 6 | That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes . |
| 7 | This sentiment was repeated a few years later by the Newsom Report in relation to average ability working-class adolescents . |
| 8 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 9 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 10 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
| 11 | This was typical ‘ normal science ’ — the very necessary filling-in operation which had to follow the categorically original discoveries made a few years earlier by the chief . |
| 12 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 13 | The INF treaty , agreed at Washington the previous December , was formally signed by the two leaders on 1 June , following its ratification a few days earlier by the US Senate and by the USSR Supreme Soviet ( the first Soviet rockets were destroyed , to some publicity , in early August ) . |
| 14 | This will bring an early return to Cleveland Park for Darlington-based Paul Bentley who was signed just a few weeks ago by the Midlands club from Boro . |
| 15 | There was no answer , only silence again , followed a few seconds later by the crashing sound . |
| 16 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |
| 17 | A molecule in the bulk of a liquid is pulled in all directions equally by the intermolecular forces . |
| 18 | Of course , as everyone in the district knows , the path was destroyed many years ago by the Great Landslide . |
| 19 | He surely er from his point of view all landlords just by the fact that they own the land , they 're gon na be er |
| 20 | In both cases the analogy between presentation of speech and presentation of object texts is enforced by the convention of referring to those texts metonymically by the name of their authors . |
| 21 | Looking like a scholarly Foreign Office man he took the hard-selling American advertising world of those days aback by the very stealth of his approach . |
| 22 | He also repeated an argument put forward several times recently by the Scottish Office that a farmer 's net income , which can include allowances for rent and depreciation , and where , for example , transport and housing costs may be apportioned to the business , can not be compared directly with the average UK wage . |
| 23 | These rulers were replaced several centuries later by the House of St Arnulf , the family line of Charlemagne . |
| 24 | This is the only method that can reproduce several colours simultaneously by the simple process of writing over different coloured carbon papers in turn when preparing the master copy . |
| 25 | The most significant objection , however , was that it would have precluded private prosecutions , the importance of which was amply illustrated several years ago by the Glasgow rape case . |
| 26 | ‘ Now , before our next programme — which was recorded several years ago by the Central Office of Information — we go over to Bill Giles in the London Weather Centre for the twenty-four hour forecast . ’ |
| 27 | Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women . |