Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 2 | Life in this part of Poland is changing rapidly and now is the right time to see it and to meet the Polish people who live here or those on holiday from the cities . |
| 3 | The ANC , however , released on Oct. 11 its own separate version of the discussions at the meeting , suggesting that tensions between the two sides remained , particularly over the level of violence and over alleged " double standards " in the government 's treatment of ANC activists and that of members of the far right . |
| 4 | Amongst the offices listed are the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds and that of bailiff of the Manor of Northstead the existence of which is nominal only but ‘ appointment' ’ of a Member of Parliament to which is the traditional manner of resigning a seat . |
| 5 | He intends to merge the curatorship of the Departments of Prints and Drawings and that of Painting under the Keeper of Paintings . |
| 6 | The grants of Valence and Gallia Ulterior to the Alans , and that of Sapaudia to the Burgundians are not attested elsewhere . |
| 7 | The party congress in August 1990 amended the party constitution to enable the same person to hold both the post of party chairman and that of President of the Republic , reversing an amendment made in 1985 when Julius Nyerere stepped down as President . |
| 8 | Lakonia proper , the territory of the city of ‘ Lakedaimon ’ , i.e. Sparta , included the large and fertile district between the Parnon mountain range to the east and that of Taygetos to the west . |
| 9 | And we are likely to abandon the sphere of the concrete to the positivists and that of theory to the essentialists , rather than to theorize the relationship of the two at a higher level . |
| 10 | And that on top of the crew . ’ |
| 11 | There was nothing complicated and little of interest about the present job . |
| 12 | That he had the long record of offenses , mainly dishonesty and some for violence against the police . |
| 13 | The account describes the ‘ hospitals and open stables for the reception of diseased and sick horses in the first stage of their complaints ’ … ‘ more pure stables , which are taken up by horses in physic , or patients whose complaints are not contagious ’ … stocks where ‘ all operations are performed without the trouble or hazard of casting … a perfect skeleton of a horse , to refer to in cases of lameness , fractures , etc … various paddocks , some with and some without water for the better accommodation of horses of different descriptions , whose complaints require open air , or grass , for their perfect recovery ’ . |
| 14 | With such a wide range of adaptations it is not surprising to find that the shapes of bivalves are highly varied — some are globular , others flat and plate-like , some like razor shell ( Ensis ) have become greatly elongated to avoid burrowing , and some in forms of the usual ‘ mirror image ’ symmetry has been lost . |
| 15 | The geological formations mean that the production rate per oil well is very high , and this in conjunction with the proximity of the wells to deep water marine terminals , means that transportation and production costs are low . |
| 16 | Once again , as with water , the parsimony of individual householders and landlords prevented a more widespread domestic usage , so that by 1870 there were only 87,000 subscribers — and this in spite of the opportunities offered by gas for heating and cooking as well as lighting . |
| 17 | Thus , Mercier and Baker report a series of experiments in which rats pre-exposed to a compound of a clicker and a light acquired latent inhibition to the click just as readily as subjects pre-exposed to the click alone , and this in spite of the fact that the light was a salient event that was certainly noticed and processed by the animals . |
| 18 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 19 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 20 | But however you you wangled them some way and you you eventually learnt your trade by half going to classes at night school and half of information from the bakers you had to put two and two together and you worked it out . |
| 21 | She had posted off a length of pale blue silk for Jennifer 's dress , and another of velvet in the same shade for Christopher 's page-boy suit . |
| 22 | Guntram 's bishops dealt with a disagreement between their king and his brother Sigibert in 573 , and Guntram himself summoned two councils to Mâcon between 581 and 585 , and another to Valence in the same period . |
| 23 | There is a circular about the functioning of the lifts during power-cuts , and another about cooperation with the military in the event of troops being called in to guard Government buildings . |
| 24 | In addition a party went by car from Keighley and another by minibus from the Kirklees area . |
| 25 | They had a house in the capital , Bucharest , and another in Sinaia in the Carpathian mountains where they spent their summers . |
| 26 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 27 | All of these initiatives were made more possible as a result of , and parallel to , Local Management of Schools and all in spite of the petty opposition of so many Labour Local Government controlling groups , who just ca n't bear the thought that the L E A is at last breaking free of absolute Local Government control . |
| 28 | New York , they say , is the great example of the Democratic Welfare State ; a million and more on welfare , hospitals in chaos , 2,000 people murdered each year , the nation 's highest concentration of Aids sufferers , kids shooting kids in the schools , and all in return for the highest levels of tax in the United States . |
| 29 | Summer snaps of uninhibited fun , and all in front of the kids , too . |
| 30 | Practically all city centre pubs offer excellent bar lunches , some serve meals all day , and many in addition to the bar lunches offer supper snacks . |