Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dr Henning talked about meditation the picture changed to four men demonstrating the art of yogic flying . |
| 2 | During gastrulation the front and back , top and bottom become evident , and the basic body plan is laid down . |
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| 4 | But about lunch-time the drunks began to look in . |
| 5 | However , in contrast to the present position where audit reports are signed only with the name of the firm , in the case of a limited company acting as auditor the report could also include , as is currently the case in Sweden and Germany , the name or names of one or more individuals responsible for conducting the examination . |
| 6 | The good advance man develops through experience the wisdom of knowing when to try something and when not . |
| 7 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 8 | ‘ The task of preparing for freedom the races which can not as yet govern themselves ’ , he wrote , ‘ is the supreme duty of those who can . |
| 9 | When the staff feel that the workhouse is ready for inspection the visitors arrive . |
| 10 | unc Now study this example : unc Making the decimal 0.12 into a whole number for division the x 10 machine had to be used twice , x 100 in other words , since we had two figures after the point . |
| 11 | At one time during field-work the traffic police became more unpopular than usual because they were under instruction not to let police colleagues off minor traffic violations . |
| 12 | In putting through Parliament the Law Commissions Act 1965 he created separate Law Commissions for England and Wales , and for Scotland , each with a seconded High Court judge as chairman , and a staff of qualified lawyers and others with the obligation to investigate particular questions referred to it , or on its own initiative to conduct a regular programme of inquiry into the general state of the law or any particular question , civil or criminal , which they chose to select . |
| 13 | Racing : Richard Baerlein summarises the best of today 's betting prospects Smart Tar on course for Mandarin THE MANDARIN Handicap Chase , now sponsored by Save and Prosper , has many happy memories for some and not so happy for others . |
| 14 | For instance the increase could have been due to the taste of the methylanthranilate itself rather than the learned association of pecking and tasting . |
| 15 | For instance the title we thought R O W was Toytown station , R O W was misleading cos b R O W stands for Renewal Of Way . |
| 16 | If , for instance the openings of the coronary arteries are involved by the syphilitic process , the swelling of the tissues after treatment may lead to blockage and sudden death . |
| 17 | To supervise for instance the selection of " good men " to serve on local panels , they sent missi from the palace . |
| 18 | Many philosophers have spoken of this progress , identifying key stages in it , for instance the achievement of consciousness by animals or self-consciousness by humans . |
| 19 | When we assess the improbability of an event postulated by , for instance the Cairns-Smith theory , we should assess it , not against what we subjectively think of as probable or improbable , but against numbers like these three numbers , the Solar System Number , the Galaxy Number and the Universe Number . |
| 20 | Not only are characters within the tale likened to animals — for instance the miller , proud as a peacock , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " , or his wife , " " peert as is a pye " " ( 3926 , 3935 , 3950 ) — but an animal has a substantial role to play in the story : the clerk 's horse , a stallion , who even has a name , Bayard . |
| 21 | This pattern sheds light on the evolution of many local economies , for instance the industrialization of Shropshire ( in the Coalbrookdale Coal field ) . |
| 22 | No , not at all , er , but I , I , I , am someone who believes you 've got to have level playing fields , which we do not have , er or wo n't have , er with the implementation of the common market er , regardless of any relationship with the Soviet Union in 1992 , er after all to , what has not been published very much , er is that , you know , got to take into account indirect as well as direct and erm , if you look at for instance the United States er which is constantly packing the common market people , which is of course , er |
| 23 | For instance the government grants made to each of the new British universities in the 1960s , and intended to cover purchase of their basic bookstocks , were estimated by the Parry report to have a purchasing power of 75,000 volumes — less than a third of Parry 's recommended figure . |
| 24 | Such figures are also useful for indicating the distribution of various life chances , for instance the chance that different social groups have of owning their own home . |
| 25 | Yet the very large concentrations at Faversham ( Harden 1956b , pp. 146–7 ) and the fact that some supposed European types are more common in England than on the Continent , for instance the Kempston type cone beakers ( Evison 1972 ) and bag beakers ( Harden 1978 , p. 2 ) , encourage a view that some at least may have been made in England . |
| 26 | Consider for instance the Riders . |
| 27 | Evans says that the title of Gospel Oak was in many places conferred on to the tree that , ‘ in for instance the Suffolk village of Polstead , has long outlasted the ceremony ’ . |
| 28 | Broadly speaking , this theory states that stress or dissatisfaction is more likely to be experienced by an individual if her/his ranks are discrepant — for instance the ranks associated with income , education and ethnic group . |
| 29 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 30 | The state may thus mould the company 's constitution so as to protect the interests of parties directly involved , for instance the interests of shareholders against abuse of position by management , but it also has a much broader right of intervention , allowing it , if appropriate , to redefine corporate objectives to secure compliance with favoured social goals . |