Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dr Henning talked about meditation the picture changed to four men demonstrating the art of yogic flying . |
| 2 | it was something about March the second , it was just a clip |
| 3 | During gastrulation the front and back , top and bottom become evident , and the basic body plan is laid down . |
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| 5 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 6 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 7 | The most important is Domesday Book , the great survey compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086 . |
| 8 | But about lunch-time the drunks began to look in . |
| 9 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's an exhibition about Michelangelo the sculptor , not Michelangelo 's sculptures ’ , in the words of Pietro C. Marani of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici of Milan , curator at the Pinacoteca di Brera , and scientific co-ordinator of the exhibition . |
| 11 | For Nizan the originality of the contemporary period , however , is that history has violently entered the arena and fractured the classical mould- The non-reflective , naturally ordained existence of the classical period has been ruptured . |
| 12 | For Nizan the moral strength afforded the writer by revolutionary ideology eliminates the need for self-justification within the ethos of his work , eliminates the need to apologise for failing to conform not only to the conventions of bourgeois political structures , but also to the conventions of bourgeois literary structures . |
| 13 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 14 | The difference is only that for postverbals the property complex qualifies the E ( and in surface terms we have an intransitive verb phrase ) , while with adverbals the property complex is qualified by the E ( in surface terms , a transitive verb phrase ) . |
| 15 | When returning the draft Contract to me duly signed will you let me have a cheque in favour of Messrs. Stanley Tee & Co. for £2,600 the 5% deposit and I will place this on deposit with my firm 's bankers so that it does not lose you interest , so there should be no delay in exchanging contracts once you have received the insurance company 's acceptance of your life proposals . |
| 16 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 17 | However , in contrast to the present position where audit reports are signed only with the name of the firm , in the case of a limited company acting as auditor the report could also include , as is currently the case in Sweden and Germany , the name or names of one or more individuals responsible for conducting the examination . |
| 18 | There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time . |
| 19 | In the 1830s they were being criticized for despoiling ‘ the crystalline beauties ’ of the local caves , or in other words bearing off as trophies the stalactites and stalagmites . |
| 20 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 21 | The greater this interaction between chains the more favourable will be the energy parameter and this provides some indication of the type of chain which might be expected to crystallize from the melt , viz. |
| 22 | During March the Northern Ireland office drew attention to the discussion papers and issued advertisements which included the following : |
| 23 | During March the armed forces , which had seized power in a military coup on Feb. 23 [ see pp. 38003-04 ] , established a timetable for a return to civilian rule . |
| 24 | The good advance man develops through experience the wisdom of knowing when to try something and when not . |
| 25 | Often what begin as experimental course-work exercises of only medium-to-poor standard become high.quality on.going productions as teachers not only get accustomed to the requirements of curriculum materials planning but recognize through experience the stimulating value of these materials in their work with students . |
| 26 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 27 | These were the occasions which enabled them to display for hours the rigid immobility for which they were famous throughout Europe . |
| 28 | For hours the magician swam around , with the normally chatty parrot perched silently on his shoulder . |
| 29 | For hours the planet had grown no larger in Miles Engado 's faceplate ; seeming instead to retreat as he fell towards it . |
| 30 | For hours the dark , dry |