Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bream from pegs upstream of the shipyard , including odd specimens to 7 lb 8 oz . |
| 3 | Nearly 30% of Americans all over the country surveyed by the Washington Post said they feared their city would be subject to a terrorist attack . |
| 4 | County councillors have claimed £2,087 for trips abroad during the past year . |
| 5 | Trips abroad : County councillors have claimed £2,087 for trips abroad during the past year . |
| 6 | County councillors have claimed £2,087 for trips abroad during the past year . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd got so bleeding sensitive , ’ she said , pulling a filthy pair of leggings on over the nappy . |
| 8 | So she ran in and whipped a pair of socks on to the girl 's feet . |
| 9 | Tuppe found a pair of knickers down behind the back seat . |
| 10 | Certain objects admit of both verbs however and the contrast in meaning is highly revealing , as the pair of examples below from the Brown University Corpus shows : ( 136 ) … such comments as the following which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects … |
| 11 | A series of alerts all over the mainland came as the IRA yesterday declared a 72-hour Christmas truce for Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it was Webb and Bath who made their mark first , with a neat series of passes over on the right . |
| 13 | A series of documents both in the First and in the Second Book of Maccabees reflects — I believe quite authentically for the majority of them — the decline of Syrian power in Judaea , but does not offer any precise clue to the intentions of Antiochus IV in Hellenizing Jerusalem . |
| 14 | This series of moves forward along the hole is what is known as a multiple dig , but some people prefer to dig a trench all the way along the burrow until the ferret is reached . |
| 15 | It invariably turns out that an operator makes a series of decisions partly on the basis of what is currently displayed ( on-line information ) and partly on the basis of other material obtained from his knowledge of the system performance , his briefing and his operating instructions ( off-line information ) . |
| 16 | Inspect the dpc 150mm ( 6in ) above ground level — a series of holes just above the dpc at 150mm intervals will indicate that a chemical dpc has been added . |
| 17 | Since then the transformation of rural villages into non-agricultural settlements has taken place in a series of waves out along the lines of transportation from the major urban centres , particularly , in the first instance , London . |