Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What starts as a mild downturn becomes a severe recession through the reaction of risk-averse , highly leveraged businesses . |
| 2 | The prismed bomb aimer 's station provided excellent visibility for the pin-point accuracy required . |
| 3 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 4 | In Conterchi take the concealed right-turning between the church and the supermercato , then left under the bridge , following signs to S. Pietro in Crespi . |
| 5 | One party had come as a dragon and were doing a conga through the dancing couples , tail disintegrating even as the giant head bobbed up and down . |
| 6 | Design management is an extensive subject but there are small points of technique about the information needed for control and the control of design information which are seldom discussed but deserve to be mentioned . |
| 7 | When Fokine developed his mimed dance and danced mime , the old dualism of dance and mime was largely eliminated , although twentieth-century choreographers still use the strictly academic technique as the firm basis of their design . |
| 8 | But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin . |
| 9 | His protest that this was the worst kind of Victorian colonialism was short-hand for the conviction that the action had played into the hands of all the enemies of the West . |
| 10 | Percolation and absorption through the earth banks . |
| 11 | Both the chemicals involved in the incident are classified as toxic and can be harmful , by inhalation , absorption through the skin or ingestion . |
| 12 | East Germany , where the lingering Protestant work ethic marched shoulder to shoulder with Leninist concepts of electrification as the vitalizing force that would change society , has the world 's highest per capita emissions of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide . |
| 13 | ‘ Was that … was that the hospital ? ’ she asked , a numbing dread about the fate of her cousin suddenly driving all else from her mind . |
| 14 | ‘ What I have been interested to witness over the last year to 18 months is a newly confident Left in the Socialist International saying we have a common formulation about the best way to proceed . |
| 15 | Events such as the extension of the franchise , the seizure of power by working-class parties , the fractionated and conflictual basis of state institutions , the crucial mediating role played by state bureaucracy , the higher material and social benefits granted to the working class and , perhaps most importantly , the fact that the forms of political representation and state intervention in different countries have shown remarkable dissimilarities over time and space , have all been difficult to accommodate within Marx 's and Engels 's original formulation about the nature of power in capitalist societies . |
| 16 | Ian 's campaign will be bolstered by a new addition to the team Darlington mechanic Roy Watkinson has agreed to prepare the bike during the season . |
| 17 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 18 | The exhibit 's called ’ Yellow Peril ’ , and is supposed to question the way we in the west think about the Chinese . |
| 19 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 20 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 21 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 22 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 23 | But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil . |
| 24 | The field-work for the first was conducted in 1964 as part of the research for the Committee on the Management of Local Government . |
| 25 | Dale Spender describes the tendency to refer to the male as the norm and women in pejorative terms as a ‘ rule ’ of language ; she use the term ‘ sexist syntax ’ to describe this . |
| 26 | It 's identified generally with many of the glories of bourgeois cooking through the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 27 | A surge in borrowings from 29% to 55% of shareholders ' funds was largely due to a buying spree during the year when NFC shelled out £75m on 16 businesses . |
| 28 | Sure , Ratner embarked on a takeover spree during the Eighties . |
| 29 | Both had begun the war as conscientious objectors , Vaughan ending it as an Orderly Room clerk for the Army in a prisoner-of-war camp in Yorkshire . |
| 30 | Mr Blackburn , a Belfast man , was clerk for the Northern Ireland Parliament from 1970 to March , 1972 , and then clerk of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973–74 . |