Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , my research on images of the gene in popular culture is revealing trends that make me wonder about the results of public participation . |
| 2 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 3 | I was doing my SHO in paediatrics at the time , and I had a word with my boss . |
| 4 | I was delighted to receive such a tremendous response from transport companies , CIT Sections , and many individual members to my request for sponsors for the cycle ride which my wife Maureen and I did from Land 's End to John O'Groats on behalf of The Save the Children Fund in August . |
| 5 | This increase underlines my commitment to improvements across the whole range of law and order programmes , consistent with the undertakings outlined in the recently published ’ Justice Charter for Scotland ’ . |
| 6 | Er , my claim for expenses for the park , which is on the agenda later come back to this , the cleaner 's wages , one trip to Newark , bill development er for Mrs Susan , |
| 7 | ‘ When I presented my collection of Birds to the Zoological Society , Mr Gould kindly undertook to furnish me with descriptions of the new species and names of those already known . |
| 8 | I packed my rucksack , signed the visitors ' book , left my list of sightings in the common room and said my farewells . |
| 9 | I had a Tsingtao beer by the neck while chatting to Esmonde ( do n't ask ) , the proprietor of the Last Emperor , and picking my meal by numbers from the menu nailed to the counter and covered in drunk-proof plastic . |
| 10 | MY party of visitors to the new Museum of Liverpool Life were less than impressed with the Brookside exhibit . |
| 11 | Throughout the 1970s I had been mainly studying black holes , but in 1981 my interest in questions about the origin and fate of the universe was reawakened when I attended a conference on cosmology organized by the Jesuits in the Vatican . |
| 12 | Laying my pack of cigarettes on the table , I lay back on the bed and looked at the ceiling . |
| 13 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 14 | There has , however , been no focus on the position of GPs and their interaction with ASWs in the assessment process . |
| 15 | In most of Africa and Asia the British could justify their presence in terms of the white man 's burden : there was work to do , and justice to be done . |
| 16 | This led to a reappraisal by the Euro-currency markets and banks-of their exposure to borrowers in the non-industrialized world , carrying With it the danger that attitudes could swing too far in the opposite direction and that too restrictive a stance might jeopardize international trade and economic growth . |
| 17 | The elections had been called 15 months early after a group of five Green legislators — who had kept the minority government of Michael Field in office since June 1989 [ see p. 37877 ] — withdrew its support after disagreements over the issue of logging [ for May 1989 elections see p. 36658 ] . |
| 18 | The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop . |
| 19 | For since that day when he had made his accusations , tearing her heart to shreds in the process , Jake had refused to have any more to do with her . |
| 20 | Marje wept as she opened her heart during interviews for the biography . |
| 21 | This has its parallel with entities in the entity-relationship model , which will be represented as relations in the relational model . |
| 22 | As a loss maker , Provincial received the bulk of its income from grants from the PTEs , and from the government in the form of the Public Service Obligation ( PSO ) . |
| 23 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 24 | But this degree of involvement takes its toll on policewomen in the unit . |
| 25 | Even small degrees of enzyme inefficiency can have effects on other pathways if these are dependent for their functioning on products of the defective pathway or if they are inhibited by the build-up of substances prior to the block . |
| 26 | One spotlights the increasing scope and sophistication of the General Staff and its proliferation of Directorates beyond the strict confines of military-technical policy . |
| 27 | Following a meeting of United States , United Kingdom and Hong Kong government officials in Washington on June 6 , the US government stated that it was to drop its opposition to negotiations between the UK and Vietnamese governments for the " involuntary repatriation " of Vietnamese boat people not considered to be genuine refugees , and to the possible establishment of an internationally managed centre in Vietnam to hold them on their return . |
| 28 | Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace . |
| 29 | Such effects owe their origin to gradients in the field and are called tidal effects . |
| 30 | Apted also differentiates browsing habits according to the different disciplines and points to its prominence for scholars in the humanities . |