Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Similar numbers of people are expected to join YT schemes each year until 1992–3 , but as employers progressively take over from the government , its annual expenditure on YT is expected to fall — to some 760 million in 1992–3 ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 6.5 ) . |
| 32 | Crowds generally thin out around the Isle of Dogs loop between 15 and 19 miles , so if you 're looking to get rid of the rest of the watching population , head for Canary Wharf , the complex will be open on the day to spectators . |
| 33 | The campaign showed few issues and , with the Conservatives overwhelmingly backed up in the popular press , was wholly one-sided . |
| 34 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 35 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 36 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
| 37 | Bath also had a resident gem-cutter , whose collection of 34 unmounted intaglios somehow ended up in the main drain carrying the overflow from the reservoir housing the hot spring . |
| 38 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 39 | Hiding gaps at edges : Unsightly gaps often open up round the perimeter of the room , between the skirting and the floorboards , caused by movement in the timbers . |
| 40 | Provision would be made for the possible transfer of other functions at a later date , ( e.g. The assessments of means , decisions on the grant of criminal legal aid , and at least some of the determinations of bills now carried out in the courts ) . |
| 41 | All too often , banks are even repaid twice : once in interest , and again with loans smuggled out of poor countries then re-cycled back to the North by corrupt Third World elites anxious to secure personal fortunes . |
| 42 | Yes , he thought , tomorrow , he would pay the chaplain to sing one last Mass for his fallen comrades then go back into the city and request from his superiors some mission or task well away from this benighted fortress . |
| 43 | The dispute was being regarded as a trial of strength by the labour movement ( in a nationwide context of increased union militancy ) and the solidarity of all the trades in the printing industry impressed the employers still standing out against the men 's memorial . |
| 44 | Countries such as the Baltic states hardly signed up with the Soviet Union as free agents . |
| 45 | I like a bit of subversion — something that makes waves — although artists always smooth out in the end . ’ |
| 46 | Good ideas rarely come out of the blue ; search carefully and you will often find that someone else has anticipated your inspiration or at least , thought of something similar to it . |
| 47 | The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group . |
| 48 | The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group . |
| 49 | Those responsibilities not taken over by the newly privatised gas , petroleum and electricity industries are expected to be handed over to existing departments such as Trade and Industry and Environment . |
| 50 | The ‘ chain of fire ’ and the attendant customs largely died out through the l9th Century , some few lingering into the 20th . |
| 51 | Are the participants totally locked in to the the production of er Eurofighter ? |
| 52 | They were still within the normal range of intelligence , however , and some babies born as much as 12 weeks early end up at the top of the class 10 years later , according to findings announced by Dr Leonora Harding , of Aberdeen University , to the British Psychological Society . |
| 53 | In a spirit of defiance shoppers and office workers yesterday flooded back into the heart of Manchester that was targeted by the IRA on Thursday , leaving 67 people injured . |
| 54 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 55 | I remembered the name of the manufacturer who 'd said ‘ yes ’ on the telephone , and two days later drove off in the Metro and picked out my coffin . |
| 56 | At Grassington the miners worked in small setts , or meers , and there were regular disputes over boundaries and underground trespass despite the presence of a Barmoot Court and Barmaster , and other customs anciently brought in from the lead districts of Derbyshire . |
| 57 | Over 2,000 dock workers immediately walked out despite the judgment and despite the advice given by their leaders not to do so . |
| 58 | ‘ When we were hunters , two and a half million years ago roaming round with the monkeys , only 15–20 per cent of our diet was fat . |
| 59 | If you 've only seen a De Lorean car in the Back to the Future films then drop in at the old plant in Dunmurry on Saturday afternoon ( 3.30 ) where the dream machine was produced . |
| 60 | He was soon eased , pinned and patted into the grey suit , the cuffs hastily turned up by the clerk , the back smoothed by Mr Albert . |