Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |
| 5 | There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation . |
| 6 | His Lordship added that where the presumptions created a result which was contrary to the intention of Parliament then the presumptions had to give way . |
| 7 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 8 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 9 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 10 | Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer . |
| 11 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 12 | Father Poole listened , now and then muttering a few words of encouragement whenever the voice faltered . |
| 13 | I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort . |
| 14 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 15 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 16 | They were n't going to run the cars until midday when the heavy heat really built up . |
| 17 | The angular velocity ( d8/dt ) is zero when the motor is stationary and equal to 1000 x ( 1 ) x 2n = 262 radians per second when the motor is running at 1000 steps per second . |
| 18 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |
| 19 | Chamfer the cut edges of pipe to allow easy fitting of the coupling — a few gentle taps with a hammer to chip away the edge is enough . |
| 20 | Remember I 'm no trollop to while away the hours for you . ’ |
| 21 | If there is any predisposition to psychosis then the changes induced can be permanent . |
| 22 | He had sentenced the owner of a garden centre in Morden to death when the man refused to take his Access card . |
| 23 | The data show that the development officer in Newham had on average five such clients per week when the project was fully operational ( that is excluding the period in which her case load was either building up or running down ) . |
| 24 | Why , when the opposition goalie was taking a goal-kick , did he crouch forward and remain motionless like Johnny Fartpants ? was this some attempt to psyche out the opposition ? |
| 25 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 26 | A campaign to prevent the closure of Edinburgh 's dental school ended in failure when the Universities Funding Council announced its intention to phase out the school 's grant from next autumn . |
| 27 | One more summer term to winter still the house had not looked upon anyone she saw as suitable enough to take on a satisfactory residence within her proud walls , if only she was . |
| 28 | The adults are viviparous , producing active microfilariae that rest in the lungs during the day only to appear in the peripheral blood at night when the culex mosquito host is active . |
| 29 | So why do we need to formalize these arrangements , why rock the boat at time when the political climate is ? |
| 30 | Set side by side again the pieces do n't exactly match . |