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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The former King Rat now spends his days raising funds for kids all over the world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He could not turn back and his instruments were not functioning so he flew down a succession of gorges well below the surrounding peaks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This Centre offers a programme of studies both at the undergraduate and intermediate postgraduate levels . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was the first departmental review under new procedure agreed with Heads of Departments earlier in the year . |
| 12 | Kim turned– tensing , hearing the soft murmur of voices further along the corridor , then relaxed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Task force : The US has sent an amphibious task force with Marines aboard into the eastern Atlantic . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This status window shows the currently selected brush type and its width in pixels together with the selected Ink and Paper colours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 19 | The Met office has just agreed a prestigious deal with the International Civil Aviation Organisation to provide weather data to airlines all over the world . |
| 20 | The point is made : there is a disadvantage to children immediately in the learning by teachers of so much that is at least newly described , if not new in reality . |
| 21 | If , on the other hand , it is continuously generated in a flowing system — gas or liquid travelling at a uniform rate down a tube — its subsequent decay establishes steady-state concentrations at points down-stream from the region of generation . |
| 22 | The National Gallery , Washington , already owns two smaller views of the ‘ The Castle of Nymphenburg ’ and ‘ A view of Munich ’ , donated by the Kress Foundation in 1961 , but these are less ‘ important ’ , being replicas of originals now in the Residenzmuseum , Munich . |
| 23 | Although there may have been a settlement of Illyrian-Greeks there before the second century BC when the Roman occupation of Dalmatia began , there is little evidence of continuous use of the site until the seventh century AD . |
| 24 | There 's been recent reassessment of the traditional picture of the enforced flight from the labour force to domesticity on the part of women just after the war , and far from a flight , large-scale recruitment to the new industries in the early 1950s now seems to present a more historically accurate picture . |
| 25 | The way to secure future prosperity is by embracing change not resisting it and as my honourable friend er indicates , by using our skills to best effect and competitively in a global market place were we to embrace the policies of members opposite in the European community we would shut the job , the door to the jobs which will come from that inward investment because we have opted out of the social chapter we do indeed have the opportunity that comes from being , if I may qui may quote er President Delors a pa a paradise for inward investment . |
| 26 | Our case is that , while the nature of the social relations at the workplace is clearly an important differentiating characteristic of the Dukeries field , they are probably a necessary but insufficient factor to account for the response of miners there to the 1926 and 1984 calls to strike . |
| 27 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 28 | The mass of altars both against the walls and on the piers are of high quality . |
| 29 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 30 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |