Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From ancient times , the significance of particular dates has survived centuries of attempts to stamp out the old pagan customs , and they are still popularly practised in many parts of the country . |
| 2 | Motivated partly by political considerations , partly by educational theory only indirectly political in content , teachers and the trainers of teachers rejected absolutely the idea that education should be directed towards any service or economic end . |
| 3 | Pulses of energy coursed down the beam . |
| 4 | PLATO 'S WORDS of wisdom echo down the centuries : |
| 5 | One of the agents observing some fragments of rock clattering down the shaft and falling around him , warned , " take care or you will have your brains knocked out . " |
| 6 | oh it , they showed you pictures of things coming out the squares |
| 7 | Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack . |
| 8 | By the last decade of Edward III 's reign it had become customary for the contracts of service to specify how the gains of war were to be divided . |
| 9 | Lastly , there are a number of differences between groups of institutions making up the monetary sector . |
| 10 | Physically and emotionally exhausted groups of people sit round the bed of the ill person feeling quite unable to leave even though they may have children at home or jobs to go to or a multitude of other functions . |
| 11 | She watched groups of people come round the winners , groups of friends going into the two pubs on the harbour street , people hailing each other , saving places of vantage on the wall for their friends . |
| 12 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |
| 13 | There were signs of reluctance to take seriously the need for revival of activity at the local level to overthrow apprenticeship before its due term under the act of 1833 . |
| 14 | His premature death opened the way for John Fothergill , an engineer and the first of five generations of Fothergills to head up the Tilery Bank business , to take over . |
| 15 | An experiment will be carried out in which pairs of individuals bargain over the division of a sum of money . |
| 16 | Swooping patterns of energy tingled down the labyrinths of her nerves . |
| 17 | He is the proud holder of the Gold P.O.W.N. medal ( Polish Fighting Organisation for Independence ) after blowing up railway bridges , cutting down telephone lines and destroying all forms of communications to hold back the German advance . |
| 18 | Thunder rumbled high above us , the clouds reaching down towards us , wisps of mist sweeping down the valley . |
| 19 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 20 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 21 | Areas of study reflect both the old and the new concerns : they range from head-counting to Grand Theory ; they cover religious organisations and their power structures ; they examine processes such as conversion , apostasy , institutionalisation , bureaucratisation , the growth of charisma and its rationalisation ; typological distinctions are drawn ( such as those between church , denomination and sect ) ; the relationship between religion and other areas of society ( the family , education , economy and , especially , politics ) is examined from a number of angles at a number of levels ; and there is also developing an increasing number of specialist ‘ sub-disciplines ’ — such as the sociologies of Catholicism , secularism , the ministry , gender and religion , and new religious movements . |
| 22 | O break instead our British wills of steel Cast out the traitor in our hearts , and slay The coward in our guts ; and turn , and kneel , And listen , and obey . |
| 23 | When the forest is gone , the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mould is evaporated , and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted . |
| 24 | The blustery winds of March dried up the land so that when April arrived , with stronger sun and balmy air , the whole countryside sprang into new growth almost overnight . |
| 25 | Police say two crews of men carried out the work and are seeking two men in their 50s driving a red transit van and three men in their 30s driving a small van . |
| 26 | The hoards of children pile off the bus and into the playground . |
| 27 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 28 | Between them , these two kinds of fish possessed both the essential abilities that the ancient land-exploring fish must have required . |
| 29 | ‘ Hordes of girls hang around the racetracks and — ’ |
| 30 | It was raining , thin trickles of water sliding down the window , tainting the air with dampness . |