Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry about that whingeing on at the end of the last letter . |
| 2 | We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage . |
| 3 | In the case of the UK these figures are supported by surveys such as that carried out by the Inner London Education Authority which showed that over 22% of the children it its schools spoke a language other than , or in addition to , English at home . |
| 4 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 5 | For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout . |
| 6 | And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question . |
| 7 | Current trainer John Hyland is keen on the dog taking his chance in the St Leger after Shy bowed out of the Irish |
| 8 | A professional career as such seemed out of the question ; his only ambition in life was to be an artist . |
| 9 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 10 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 11 | But did any of that come out at the inquest ? |
| 12 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
| 13 | And most of that goes on in the daytime |
| 14 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 15 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 16 | Most of this falls back into the sea , as rain or snow , but 100 000 cubic kilometres of it falls on land . |
| 17 | Occasional evidence of this percolates through into the newspapers and , now and again , the law reports . |
| 18 | These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes . |
| 19 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 20 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 21 | Issuance of Treasury bills therefore amounted to only £100 million per week , with the largest part of this taken up by the banking sector . |
| 22 | In the absence of much to shout about on the score sheet , Leeds fans reverted to taking the mick out of Arse fans ' feeble singing by doing antiphonal ‘ red army , red army ’ chanting in high-pitched silly voices . |
| 23 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 24 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 25 | Most of these refer back to the content of the video but repeat viewing is not suggested . |
| 26 | The first three teams from each of these went through to the final at East Sussex . |
| 27 | I am careful to make this only the slightest of tints , then from the top down I was in a tone of cerulean fading out into the orange . |
| 28 | Over in Cheltenham , 6 teams of 4 turned out for the day 's main event , won by the team from the St James Hotel . |
| 29 | Pale , cold , clammy , yes , this is the opposite , you 've got all the signs and symptoms here of a stroke , now if , this could go on with and erm if somebody , if something is n't done very quickly with this compression the person has still got this bleed , or clot in the head and eventually they just kind of all come up into the foetus position , literally all goes spastic , all these spastic movements right , you finished writing ? |
| 30 | ‘ The best scores from weekly magazines came from City Limits and New Stateman & Society ; the Literary Review scored well ; the TLS and London Review of Books were disappointing , and the worst scores of all came in from the Spectator and Time Out . |