Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I swam through houses where the sodden relics of habitation floated in the middle of rooms , a child 's shoe , a disintegrating book , a scrap of carpet , its red dye still leaking into the green water . |
| 2 | If the established set-up survives the pressures for change then the established constitutional theory will be of use as a rough guide to political and governmental practice , but if that set-up " breaks " then the established theories will be left beached . |
| 3 | ‘ neglect to stop ’ caters for cases where the driver does not see the constable 's signal . |
| 4 | Trial , by contrast , is reserved for cases where the factual issues are straightforward ( most often road traffic accidents ) , and the jury is asked simply to answer the question of fault with a ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ answer , going on thereafter to assess damages . |
| 5 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 6 | Apart from the splash of the water , and the squeak and thump of the diving boards , the calls of the Indians to each other and an occasional squeal of delight from the child , it was still , and a thrush , lodged in a tree on the common beyond , dominated for minutes together the air above the sequestered pool . |
| 7 | When he began to project his voice during recitals then the hoarseness always returned . |
| 8 | When the answer required is a whole number the general pattern of difficulty was found to cover a sharp difference between cases where the answer is I , 000 ( a litre , a kilometre , a kilogram or a tonne ) and cases where the answer is 10 or 100 ( 1 cm or 1m ) . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal , there was an important distinction to be made between cases where the complainant claimed to recognise the assailant as a person he already knew well and those where the complainant had never seen the assailant before . |
| 10 | My own favourite , putting price aside , was the Western Systems , but if you want value for money then the Phoenix is well worth a look . |
| 11 | If one believes that industries should be owned by the government then one will argue that the level of taxation should be such that , taken with the government 's other financial resources , it should provide capital for investment wherever the government considers it necessary . |
| 12 | For centuries previously the subject was a province variously of law , philosophy , history , and other disciplines , each with its own ways of seeing the world . |
| 13 | For Farrer too the images are given . |
| 14 | He says it ended up as bacon just the same . |
| 15 | ‘ It can be difficult to make your child take lengthy courses of treatments such as antibiotics when the average treatment can last for seven days — an eternity to a child However , newer , shorter-course antibiotic treatments are now available from your doctor , which are taken once a day for between three to five days . |
| 16 | Jackson lived up to Christie 's description of him as ‘ pound for pound perhaps the best athlete in the world ’ as he scorched to victory in the Heysel Stadium in 12.99 secs the seventh fastest of all-time . |
| 17 | For self-defence therefore the sworn foresters were allowed to carry bows and arrows in the forest . |
| 18 | The second part of the exception would apply to spare parts such as replacement body panels for cars where the design is dictated by the appearance of the car but it is unlikely that many computer spare parts will fall into this category . |
| 19 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 20 | Doug Laughton 's outfit , with six men making their debuts , had battled into a 12-11 lead soon after half-time when the game exploded in their faces . |
| 21 | The minority interest figure is based on Shaw plc 's profit after tax less the dividend receivable from Harris plc and the net movement in the provision for unrealised profit in stock ( since Shaw plc is the selling company ) , plus 30% of Harris plc 's profit after tax . |
| 22 | Conversely , if the Director had no powers of compulsion after charge then the issuing of yet another caution would make no difference . |
| 23 | She argued strongly that nineteenth-century feminism had neglected women 's need for love and a family life ( although this was by no means wholly the case ) and that sexual equality did not necessarily mean ‘ sameness ’ . |
| 24 | This is by no means invariably the case , however . |
| 25 | He regarded the Prime Minister 's unfastidious use of the honours system as the most obviously shocking but by no means necessarily the most dangerous manifestation of the system . |
| 26 | This is plausible but by no means necessarily the case , and therefore the evidence from meteorites has to be treated with considerable reserve . |
| 27 | Nothing more than that someone , by no means necessarily the purchaser of the record , has in the past bought not from Nestle 's but from a retail shop three bars of chocolate and that the purchaser has thus directly or indirectly acquired the wrappers . |
| 28 | Some " disappeared " prisoners are transferred because there has been much publicity about their capture , but this is by no means always the case . |
| 29 | The seller will replace free of charge any goods proved to the Seller 's satisfaction to have been damaged in transit provided that within 24 hours after delivery both the Seller and the carriers have received from the Purchaser notification in writing of the occurrence of the damage and also , if and so far as practicable , of its nature and extent . |
| 30 | Nor is his picture of the clergy a particularly spiritual one : those who pray and those who work are never mentioned , but the cleric who was also a warrior has his place , and after Roland perhaps the most heroic figure of all is the leading ecclesiastic of France , the archbishop of Rheims . |