Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times . |
| 2 | Perhaps there is some activity you have often thought you would try ‘ sometime ’ : Is now the opportunity to begin dog-training , Jogging , meditation , writing to The Times or writing for the radio ? |
| 3 | Such costs will either be absorbed on a pro rata basis into the cost of existing projects or charged to the overhead accounts . |
| 4 | There are presently around 600 active volcanoes on the continents or exposed above the sea as islands . |
| 5 | The students may measure the cans or refer to the information sheet for dimensions . |
| 6 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 7 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 8 | Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or concerns with the tape or Handbook . |
| 9 | ‘ After he passed you , did you notice whether he went into one of the houses or continued down the hill ? ’ |
| 10 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 11 | It 's cramped if there are four of you , but the atmosphere is very friendly and relaxed — neighbours popping in to borrow a cup of sugar or a 50p coin for the electricity meter , children running along the balconies or playing on the thin strip of grass between the blocks . |
| 12 | The customers were all men , heavily robed , standing in groups or leaning on the counter with no apparent desire to be served . |
| 13 | The risks involved in entering new markets , new sectors or using new processes can be externalized or shared within conglomerate groups or underwritten by the state on behalf of society . |
| 14 | Whitty and Jones 's analysis stands or falls on the meaning of health , whether health services have an impact on health , and on the central functions of public health medicine . |
| 15 | This is a provision which is usually inserted , since , once an order has been placed , it becomes a separate contract , with a life of its own , and stands or falls on the terms and conditions which govern it . |
| 16 | Product orientation — in this case the organization stands or falls by the quality of its products . |
| 17 | Marble galls are still to be found now , attached to twigs or fallen among the leaf-litter , each with a minute 1mm hole from which the tiny cynipid wasp has emerged . |
| 18 | In the Guidance ( vol 1 , para 4.63 ) it is suggested that assessments be undertaken by professionals agreed between the parties or selected by the guardian ad litem . |
| 19 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 20 | We still work in the same building , so we 'll often pop into each other 's offices or talk on the phone , although Peter often blips me on my computer . |
| 21 | There are indeed some paradoxical pains — that is , pain that is aggravated by the use of analgesics or relieved by the use of antalgesics . |
| 22 | In this section we attempt to provide a framework for discussion of a number of special instructions ( or groups of instructions ) , provided in current computers or proposed for the future , which do not naturally fit into these groups . |
| 23 | In the woods of oak she passed glades where cowled men chanted over carved wooden heads or walked about the piled armour of dead warriors . |
| 24 | Wages fell rapidly and the unions , despite their involvement in many long and protracted disputes were unable to staunch the outward flow of members and funds or to stave off the savage monetary wage cuts which occurred . |
| 25 | Too often people throw up ideas — ‘ Let's have so-and-so as a speaker on Tuesday and a dance on the Wednesday and a banquet on Thursday ’ — without ever stopping to think how any of these will help reach goals or fit into the overall time . |
| 26 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 27 | These include , the significance of the inaccuracy ; whether reasonable steps where taken by the data user to check the accuracy of information held and what procedures were followed by the data user once the inaccuracy was brought to light ( DPR Guideline 4 ) . |
| 28 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
| 29 | Lifting weights or exercising in the college gym three times per week will help build strength . |
| 30 | Sunk in biology , she thought , listening for creaks or moans above the ceiling , listening to the soft stirring in her belly , licking her fingers . |