Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | When the tides of magic flow strongly from the broken warp gate the Realm of Chaos expands , the Northern Wastes are swallowed up , and the armies of Chaos pour down through the Troll Country into Kislev and the Empire . |
2 | Only in the nineteenth century did widespread protests against this kind of thinking break out within the main stream of Reformed theology itself . |
3 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
4 | There was low cloud , white drifts of mist close down on the ice . |
5 | Every fifteen days , when the spring tides are at their peak , vast numbers of grunion ride in on the crests of waves and deliberately strand themselves on the shore . |
6 | Loads of water get up through the gates . |
7 | Just as Howard is scraping the last spoonful of apple crumble out of the bowl , a thought strikes him . |
8 | He grinned at her , his fleshy lips curled into a knowing line , and Fran felt the first stirrings of anger damp down on the fear . |
9 | The precedents for this kind of poem go back to the seventeenth century , and one could usefully look at Pope 's Windsor Forest or Dyer 's Grongar Hill . |
10 | Sometimes , small lava fountains play in the centre , and these reveal just how completely liquid lava can be , as it splashes and sloshes round the base of the fountain ; at other times , small jets of gas blow up through the lava in fiery gouts , churning up the lake into glowing whorls and currents of molten rock . |
11 | When will the Secretary of State wake up to the realities of public finance in the United Kingdom ? |
12 | I warn the House — I am afraid that I have been an awful bore in continually pointing this out — that , as we extend the concept of health care out into the community , we shall find more and more unsatisfied demands that have not previously been recognised . |
13 | MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a powerful warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power . |
14 | MR KINNOCK put the future of health care back at the centre of the electoral stage last night with a warning that the NHS was in mortal danger if Labour did not win power . |