Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 2 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 3 | The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference . |
| 4 | The groups formed by the females and kids are small , and solitary animals , usually males , are far from uncommon . |
| 5 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 6 | Reader 's interest coincide generally with the news values listed at the start of the chapter . |
| 7 | South Uist in sunshine in March is not common but the visual beauty is hard to beat and Lochboisdale Branch situated at the waters edge looked in as good fettle as I have ever seen it . |
| 8 | This gives an IR spectrum containing absorptions belonging to methane , ethane , ethylene and three new peaks assigned to the methyl radical . |
| 9 | ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps . |
| 10 | He was pleased with the support received for the practice of joint confirmation and particularly , welcomed the first ever united service for Christian Unity week . |
| 11 | For a few months he stood on a European par with Adler and Liebknecht and tried to take responsibility for Russians interned after the Brest–Litovsk peace . |
| 12 | A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ . |
| 13 | All the keywords can be left in the configuration file , as the parameter given for the keyword HCMAP dictates whether a volume set will be prepared for hard copy or omitted from the hard copy run . |
| 14 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 15 | In Kuwait City itself the Iraqi forces met some opposition from elite troops guarding the Amir 's palace and from troops stationed in Army and Air Force barracks situated on the city 's outskirts . |
| 16 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 17 | He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm . |
| 18 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 19 | Outside the press , groups developed in the 1970s and 1980s from several directions . |
| 20 | From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity . |
| 21 | The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother . |
| 22 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 23 | Prayer meetings in the great barn-like churches of East Berlin , Dresden , Leipzig and other cities have been the focus of protest , drawing many thousands of people until no more could squeeze in and the crowds spilled into the streets . |
| 24 | He found it hard to believe that the 3 per cent of allegations of racial discrimination sustained by the authority could reflect the true picture , and he supported an independent investigatory agency to handle all aspects of complaints against the police . |
| 25 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 26 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 27 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 28 | Most States developed during the century some system of compulsory service ; but all of these were in varying degrees incomplete , haphazard and inequitable . |
| 29 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 30 | She screeched while his rump heaved , her snout rammed between the bars of the pen . |