Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's used as a landing strip for emergencies only by the Luftwaffe . |
| 2 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 3 | It took the view that the upper limit is arbitrary , and might operate unfairly , since a person just above the limit receives no assistance , whereas a person just below it might have to make a substantial contribution but would have the security of knowing that that contribution represents the maximum liability for costs regardless of the actual cost or the outcome of the case . |
| 4 | The former King Rat now spends his days raising funds for kids all over the world . |
| 5 | The negotiations allowed Bouterse to adopt an increased political role at the expense of the civilian government , but on Feb. 14 , 1990 , he handed the mandate for negotiations back to the government claiming that the government was not supporting him fully . |
| 6 | A travelling exhibition has been assembled , containing books for children up to the age of seven , and this visits health centres , teachers ' centres , colleges of education and community associations . |
| 7 | I was allowed to disrupt a ‘ social skills ’ course — one of a number of educational opportunities for men apart from the usual classes — and took the opportunity to test out some of my impressions against their own , well-informed ones in a session that , in the end , lasted twice as long as its scheduled time . |
| 8 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 9 | She slammed the saucepan of potatoes on to the draining board . |
| 10 | He could not turn back and his instruments were not functioning so he flew down a succession of gorges well below the surrounding peaks . |
| 11 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 12 | Relatively recently , feminist scholars , now drawn closer through common experience to an older generation many of whose values they had challenged , have extended their concerns and pushed forward a more subtle questioning of women 's experience of ageing and how it might differ from men 's as a result of inequalities right through the life cycle . |
| 13 | This Centre offers a programme of studies both at the undergraduate and intermediate postgraduate levels . |
| 14 | There has been a delegation of powers downwards to the Réunion and individual museums , and in 1991 the Réunion changed its statute to operate more like a private enterprise . |
| 15 | This was the first departmental review under new procedure agreed with Heads of Departments earlier in the year . |
| 16 | It is the nature of the work that produces a tendency among men to see it as essential and elemental , all those images of men down in the abdomen of the earth , raiding its womb for the fuel that makes the world go round . |
| 17 | In the course of time , however , the monotheistic principle began to assert itself , and for a complex of reasons not within the scope of this essay , the god Yahweh was elevated to a position of supremacy over all other deities . |
| 18 | He took the tin of sardines through to the lean-to , opened it and emptied the contents onto the cat 's dish . |
| 19 | Page 382 of ’ Erskine May ’ concerns the citing of documents not before the House and makes it clear that a Minister may not ’ read or quote from a despatch or other state paper not before the House , unless he is prepared to lay it upon the Table . ’ |
| 20 | Kim turned– tensing , hearing the soft murmur of voices further along the corridor , then relaxed . |
| 21 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 22 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 23 | Somehow he had missed the announcement that Tubby was in command of one of the Dublin Black and Tan units — he had enough to do maintaining the morale and the strictly military role of his own division in Cork without spending time scanning the lists of appointments elsewhere in the country . |
| 24 | She bundled Dot on to the front seat with rugs up to the chin . |
| 25 | Task force : The US has sent an amphibious task force with Marines aboard into the eastern Atlantic . |
| 26 | Returning to the main road , which is very good , we cross the plateau and pass a small reservoir on the left-hand side with views down to the south side of the island and the sea . |
| 27 | Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world . |
| 28 | This status window shows the currently selected brush type and its width in pixels together with the selected Ink and Paper colours . |
| 29 | The Faculty has the advantage of being located in the centre of the Scottish legal system with its own distinctive legal traditions , one of which is an historic openness to influences both from the civilian systems of Europe and the Anglo-American common law . |
| 30 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |