Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's see if England can win four Triple Crowns in a row and win six Five Nations titles outright in the next decade . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Information said on March 12 that fisheries patrol boats had been instructed to fire on foreign vessels fishing illegally inside the country 's 200-mile exclusive economic zone . |
| 3 | Two other men were prosecuted today for offences under the 1984 Video Recordings Act elsewhere in the country — and more cases are pending . |
| 4 | Romans and Jews mill confusingly in the background , like extras on a film set , and if one has any concrete image of them at all , it generally derives from one or another Hollywood spectacular — Pilate complete with Brooklynese accent . |
| 5 | Diplomats have offered the British drivers accommodation away from the border town of Irun , but they 've all opted so far , to stay with their vehicles . |
| 6 | I congratulate Southampton university on its success in obtaining funds way ahead of the rate of inflation in order to sustain and increase the work that it carries out . |
| 7 | If the factor is positive , the polymer chains sediment away from the centre of rotation to the cell bottom , if negative , they move in the opposite direction and float to the top . |
| 8 | Hutchison Whampoa Ltd raised the equivalent of $580m in a placing to finance its expansion in China and its telecommunications operations here in the UK . |
| 9 | has a wealth of experience in the food ingredients industry both in the UK and abroad and was most recently working for an Australian ingredients company . |
| 10 | After all these years , DEC is finally going to start paying its salesmen commissions apparently with the new year . |
| 11 | An unbridled right to recover overpaid taxes and duties subject only to the usual six-year time bar was , he suggested , unacceptable in modern society . |
| 12 | There , in most courses , students divide into ordinary and honours streams only at the end of the second year , although their intentions may affect their choice of first- and second-year options . |
| 13 | Rex , for instance , has argued that most black people form an underclass in British society , occupying the most disadvantaged positions in employment , housing and other areas relative even to the white working class ( Rex and Tomlinson , 1979 ) , while Miles refers to the formation of a distinct black ‘ fraction ’ of the working class ( Miles , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the opening was dogged by controversy , because the track in which the route had been laid was of a type having a 1¼″ groove instead of the normal 1″ groove . |
| 15 | AN eerie orange glow is all that lights the operations room deep in the bowels of the mine hunter HMS Hurworth . |
| 16 | The customs accounts there for the decade 1450–60 show that the average annual export of broadcloths , by both denizens and aliens , was a third lower than it had been in the years 1440–50 ( 94 , pp.334–5 ) . ’ |
| 17 | THIS picture shows the charred remains of art restorers ' materials said to have been found by investigators feet away from the seat of the Windsor Castle fire . |
| 18 | The latter were mollified to some extent by the exclusion from the Treaty of anything that would bar some members from forming a smaller customs union ahead of the EEC schedule . |
| 19 | The final whistle was greeted with cheers from both sets of supporters , but the Rangers fans were happier as they saw their heroes edge closer to the title . |
| 20 | Official prudence was not dictated by any fear that a rescue might be staged by middle-aged Fascists in sports jackets somewhere along the Bayswater Road . |
| 21 | The guitars stagger all over the place , the singer hacks his throat raw and the song stutters to a halt in a welter of feedback . |
| 22 | It claims to be the first software supplier to design , develop and market accounting applications software specifically for the growing client-server marketplace . |
| 23 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 24 | Around three trains per week were accepted by this shop , all carrying horse-drawn vehicles , coming from Goods Depots all over the country : Camden , Broad Street , Curzon Street etc , whereas it was the rule that road motors came and went under their own power delivered and accepted by the drivers from the depots concerned . |
| 25 | The changes auger well for the return of the business to acceptable levels of profitability and are helpful signs for the future success of manufacturing in Waterford . |
| 26 | The 453 amino acids region upstream of the POU domain is relatively alanine-rich ( 15% ) with short stretches of local overrepresentation of threonine and/or serine residues . |
| 27 | The Black Swan Literary Quiz Book which may have the Sunday Times names somewhere in the tittle too |
| 28 | I DJed at Clink Street [ the infamous after-hours warehouse just round the corner from the original Shoom club ] . |
| 29 | Speech modes , however qualified , and indeed the fully colloquial , become public norms in ways that-contrast sharply with the period of printed public norms . |
| 30 | The decision in Lingens edges Europe closer to the US " public figure " doctrine , in which journalists are free to publish what they honestly believe about important persons . |