Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 2 | He was forced to withdraw his dissolution , though only after more than two years of controversy , during which time the Council had gone about its business and drafted a number of decrees that restrained the power of the papacy , and laid down reforms throughout the Church . |
| 3 | These two requirements were first established by Greek playwrights and were later codified by the Académie Française ( 1635 ) when it laid down rules for the composition of any literary work . |
| 4 | This appears from the decision of the European Court of Justice in Zuckerfabrik Sûderdithmarschen A.G. v. Hauptzollamt Itzehoe ( Cases C 143/88 and C 92/89 ) , The Times , 27 March 1991 ( judgment delivered on 21 February 1991 ) where the court laid down conditions for the grant of a stay of execution of a national administrative Act based on a Community Regulation because of doubts on the part of the national court as to the validity of the Regulation ( see paragraphs 22–23 of the judgment of the court ) . |
| 5 | A meeting at the House of Commons between Maxton , Brockway , Campbell Stephen and McGovern of the ILP , and Pollitt , Gallacher , Kerrigan and Springhall of the Communist Party , laid down conditions for the continuance of the United Front . |
| 6 | Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities . |
| 7 | ln the parks the eucalypti were alive with lorikeets , and flocks of parakeets chased each other around the streets ; while spotted diamond birds clung to the leaves of trees in every enclosure , and yellow-throated honey-eaters crept along branches in the ravines around the town . |
| 8 | He obviously changed the clock around — there are many filled in holes in the front — which implies it was a pioneering , experimental piece . |
| 9 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 10 | R.S. ran seminars in London hotels bringing in speakers from the relocation area to discuss issues such as health , education and housing . |
| 11 | Once received the data will be converted from radio to microwave signals and passed along cables to the control centre nearby . |
| 12 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 13 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 14 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 15 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 16 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 17 | That would help us track down details from the relevant auctioneers . |
| 18 | Last night , as amazed East Berliners looked on , East German soldiers and building workers began knocking down sections of the Wall . |
| 19 | These were the veins in your lids , she knew that , though now , in the darkness of her pain , she remembered that Adesangé , lord of the volcano , the power that leapt in the crater and had leapt to set her on fire , moved along fissures in the earth that forked like those veins in her eyes . |
| 20 | Minoan wall frescoes showing youths leaping over bulls in the Cretan manner have been discovered in the Nile Delta . |
| 21 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 22 | Fourthly , ideology legitimizes social relations and covers over contradictions in the material relations of social being . |
| 23 | They discovered that the first-order autocorrelation of the mispricing series was 0.93 , indicating that mispricings tended to persist over periods of the order of a few hours . |
| 24 | She sat with the chicken pot in her lap , tearing off pieces of the bird and handing them round . |
| 25 | ‘ We expect to be the McDonald 's of videotex , opening up franchises around the country , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 26 | Opening up hearings to the public would require a byelaw change , but the PCD has already implemented the move to more informative reporting . |
| 27 | It is about opening up ideas about the range of choices which could and should be available to them . |
| 28 | In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this . |
| 29 | The family drew up plans for the four-bedroom house after their previous home on the same site in the village of Meopham , Kent , was destroyed by fire . |
| 30 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |