Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not turn back and his instruments were not functioning so he flew down a succession of gorges well below the surrounding peaks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This Centre offers a programme of studies both at the undergraduate and intermediate postgraduate levels . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Kim turned– tensing , hearing the soft murmur of voices further along the corridor , then relaxed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The mass of altars both against the walls and on the piers are of high quality . |
| 12 | In February state farm workers , teachers and transport workers staged strikes , and May saw a wave of strikes mainly in the transport and mining industries ( copper being one of Poland 's most profitable export sectors ) [ for Solidarity day of action see p. 38208 ] . |
| 13 | Its recommendations include strategies which if implemented would reduce the level of accidents generally throughout the city and , in particular , in the city centre where there is a concentration of accidents involving pedestrian injury . |
| 14 | We 've invested well over a million pound in micro-computers for the teaching of pupils right across the three phases of first , middle , and upper schools . |
| 15 | To hear it we travelled to Leighton Moss , that wonderful reserve belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds close to the shore of Morecambe Bay . |
| 16 | At the newer universities and polytechnics the process of institutional growth had led to a variety of adjustments both in the modes of teaching ( most notably through the introduction of the seminar ) and curriculum ( with a more modern and selective emphasis , and the use of the period study ) . |
| 17 | Algal , lichen and moss communities grow wherever there is a hint of moisture , in a variety of habitats all over the continent . |
| 18 | There are no statutory controls or codes of practice governing the description of products apart from the British Standard on terms used in disinfection which is widely ignored . |
| 19 | Then , on Tuesday 22nd , a blast a Hampstead tube station disrupted late shopping , and a security alert temporarily closed a branch of Books Etc in the City of London . |
| 20 | The World Cup series slalom at Holme Pierrepont on May 30th–31st will be the most important British slalom for some years and will draw a very high class field of paddlers ahead of the Olympic Games . |
| 21 | As studies in many parts of the world show , the sexual satisfaction of both partners continues in a high proportion of cases long after the age of seventy and often well into the eighties . |
| 22 | The form , in fact , was one beloved of prosecutors both on the screen and in literature . |
| 23 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , yesterday defended the testing of birds even in the smallest laying flocks . |
| 24 | We gear up amongst the debris of ascents earlier in the week , thankful that we 're first to the route today . |
| 25 | And with the help of breeders all over the world , they 've made a dramatic comeback . |
| 26 | Where either party gives particulars RSC Ord 18 , r12(7) provides that both request and particulars must be incorporated in the same document and go into the bundle of pleadings immediately after the pleading to which they refer . |
| 27 | The court 's action left the determination of damages mainly in the hands of state legislators , judges and juries . |
| 28 | In the first case , the delay was expected to prevent further rehearsal of words late in the word list and as a result reduce the chance of their recall . |
| 29 | Although in terms of quantity more pottery has survived , it is the combination of the quantity of coins together with the official inscriptions and designs they bear that have made them more precisely datable than any other common class of artefact . |
| 30 | In every case the explanation of the normative effect of the exercise of authority leads back , sometimes through very circuitous routes , to the imposition of duties either by the authority itself or by some other persons . |