Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait , more that nine hundred Briton , most of the women , have either escaped or been flown out of the Gulf . |
| 2 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 3 | From here the oils diffuse into the bloodstream or are taken up by the lymph and interstitial fluid ( a liquid surrounding all body cells ) to other parts of the body . |
| 4 | Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers . |
| 5 | Rabbits can either be bolted with loose ferrets or be dug out with the assistance of line ferrets , the line being used to indicate the precise location of the quarry . |
| 6 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 7 | Boyz N the Hood The neighbourhood in question is South Central Los Angeles , a curious half-ghetto half-Brookside with Uzis , where Tre ( Cuba Gooding Jr ) and Ricky ( Morris Chestnut ) stand at a crossroads : will they make it to college and become middle class or be gunned down in the crossfire between rival gangs ? |
| 8 | Each character must make an I test ( with a +10 bonus if the character specifically says he 's bracing himself ) or be forced down to the bottom of the stairwell . |
| 9 | Washing experiments were performed to try to determine whether the drug was being removed from the outside of the cell or being leeched out from the inside . |
| 10 | The demand may be advertised in one or more newspapers if the demand is for payment of a sum due under a judgment or order and the creditor knows or believes that the debtor has absconded or is keeping out of the way with a view to avoiding service and there is no real prospect of the debt being recovered by any enforcement action . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't look to just one man to have the freedom to create because what happens if he 's not doing it or is marked out of the game ? ’ |
| 12 | The antlers grow through the summer , covered in a fur called velvet , which then dries and falls off , or is rubbed off by the irritable beasts . |
| 13 | Names that are flying around at the moment are the US General Accounting Office , the Stanford Research Institute or one of the US National Laboratories such as the Los Alamos Lab . |
| 14 | And the more poor little Britain takes a battering , the more bombs that are called down on the wreck of London , the sooner it will be . |
| 15 | To do this it uses raw materials that are drifting around in the cell , being , very probably , the products of other protein machines . |
| 16 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 17 | Further preparation of collections of calcareous and phosphatic shelly Cambrian fossils may well produce dividends , and such disarticulated remains that are etched out of the rock should be held up against articulated scleritomes , either actual or hypothesized . |
| 18 | Its mangrove swamps are rapidly being wiped out by pollution from the satellite towns that are springing up along the shore . |
| 19 | A good example is a manufacturer who sells to a reseller and requires the reseller to grant him an indemnity in respect of third party claims for product liability made against the manufacturer arising in relation to the products of the manufacturer that are sold on by the reseller . |
| 20 | Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on . |
| 21 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 22 | In Strombolian eruptions , the red-hot fragments of lava that are hurled out of the vent are usually fairly plastic , smallish , and do n't travel far . |
| 23 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 24 | But it is changed too in that it is not so much the details of infant care that are laid down as the principles which should be followed in deciding the details . |
| 25 | Because there 's a lot of erm pensions that are triggered off by the age of the elderly person . |
| 26 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 27 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 28 | What we were expecting and erm he wanted to know , to a large extent , how we felt about all the erm things that are going on in the parish . |
| 29 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 30 | Switchboard use it a lot again , to try and get to the bottom of , you know , calls that are going through to the wrong place and things like that . |