Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] 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 | During gastrulation the front and back , top and bottom become evident , and the basic body plan is laid down . |
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| 4 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 5 | But about lunch-time the drunks began to look in . |
| 6 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time . |
| 9 | The good advance man develops through experience the wisdom of knowing when to try something and when not . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 12 | ‘ The task of preparing for freedom the races which can not as yet govern themselves ’ , he wrote , ‘ is the supreme duty of those who can . |
| 13 | During emplacement the overlying strata may be significantly uplifted and deformed . |
| 14 | Then we learned the hymns for mass the following morning . |
| 15 | When the staff feel that the workhouse is ready for inspection the visitors arrive . |
| 16 | 5 — Available for inspection The Offline Operator has indicated that the media item may be faulty . |
| 17 | 5 — Available for inspection The Offline system has detected that the media item may be faulty . |
| 18 | unc Now study this example : unc Making the decimal 0.12 into a whole number for division the x 10 machine had to be used twice , x 100 in other words , since we had two figures after the point . |
| 19 | At one time during field-work the traffic police became more unpopular than usual because they were under instruction not to let police colleagues off minor traffic violations . |
| 20 | In putting through Parliament the Law Commissions Act 1965 he created separate Law Commissions for England and Wales , and for Scotland , each with a seconded High Court judge as chairman , and a staff of qualified lawyers and others with the obligation to investigate particular questions referred to it , or on its own initiative to conduct a regular programme of inquiry into the general state of the law or any particular question , civil or criminal , which they chose to select . |
| 21 | During term-time the younger children returned to Park House at weekends while their father , Viscount Althorp stayed with them in Belgravia when he visited London . |
| 22 | Racing : Richard Baerlein summarises the best of today 's betting prospects Smart Tar on course for Mandarin THE MANDARIN Handicap Chase , now sponsored by Save and Prosper , has many happy memories for some and not so happy for others . |
| 23 | For instance the strength of the priming effect suggests that covert recognition reflects the otherwise intact operation of the normal face recognition system when it is cut off from some centre of consciousness ( Young and De Haan , 1988 ) rather than the operation of a separate , subsidiary face recognition system . |
| 24 | Take for instance the example of yew wood . |
| 25 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 26 | There is for instance the theory that inflation is spontaneously generated by trade unions . |
| 27 | In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women . |
| 28 | As Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson considerably modified the tax framework in which life assurance and pensions schemes operated , removing for instance the tax relief on life insurance premiums . |
| 29 | But they may be otherwise arranged as for instance the two ways whether end to end in line , at an angle to one another or otherwise may be oppositely inclined from opposite sides of the head bay and terminate at foot each in its own tail bay connected with the lower pond . |
| 30 | For instance the hauling drums proposed by Messrs. Glover are without doubt the best system , and these can be applied to the original idea which has been adopted by Messrs. Gwynne viz : — 1 Free Balance Rope and 2 Hauling Ropes to each tank . |