Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 2 | No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s . |
| 3 | Terah 's three sons are named , and their home-town given as Ur of the Chaldeans . |
| 4 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 5 | They were caught off Scilly by the Mounts Bay luggers , effective fish catchers but not rigged for speed . |
| 6 | However , I thought that it was wrong , very , very wrong that he was picked for Stuttgart on the strength of those two races . |
| 7 | She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove , my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father 's first marriage ; they were the couple who had looked after Eric between the ages of three and five . |
| 8 | Tasse , adoring , elderly Tasse , had looked after Marian on the journey that led to her death . |
| 9 | French-trained Lashkari , owned like Shernazar by the Aga Khan , had won the inaugural running of the Turf in 1984 but had not seemed at his best in 1985 . |
| 10 | A group of thirty horsemen had come against Forteviot from the east an hour before , and had tried to set fire to it with burning arrows , and strike down the defenders with slingshot and spears . |
| 11 | It was disclosed during June that mass graves containing more remains of about 15,000 Polish Army officers massacred by their Soviet captors in 1940 had been located near Kharkov in the east Ukraine and at Mednoye near Kalinin in western Russia . |
| 12 | In France , according to Libération , 133 of the parliamentary deputies of the Gaullist part of the new coalition government voted against Maastricht in the referendum last September , compared with only 89 in favour . |
| 13 | Croatia 's new right-wing government ( elected in April-May 1990 — see pp. 37381 ; 37463 ) had given assurances that individual and cultural rights were guaranteed to all people in the republic , However , for many Serbs the ascendancy of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) revived the fear of Croat nationalist extremism and the memory of atrocities committed against Serbs by the fascist Croat ustasha movement , which had governed Croatia as a puppet state of the Axis powers during the Second World War . |
| 14 | This is added onto LIBOR at the appropriate reference dates ( every three , six or twelve months ) to determine the total interest cost on a variable rate loan over its term . |
| 15 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 16 | He was asked if he had known about the attrocities committed under Stalin in the 1930s , and whether he would have liked to be returned to the Soviet Union labelled traitor at the end of the war . |
| 17 | After we told Joe , he wrote to us explaining he had mixed up AZT with the cancer drug Interferon , known as IFN . |
| 18 | The president himself ordered studies of the feasibility of tougher policies than had been been pursued under Truman against the Soviet bloc . |
| 19 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 20 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |
| 21 | Peter was probably martyred in Rome during the persecutions of Nero in 64–5 AD . |
| 22 | Sainte En grace the saint was in fact Portuguese , and said to have been martyred in Saragossa in the fourth century . |
| 23 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |
| 24 | The last proposal for change had come from France on the grounds of weather being better later in the season but it was decided then to leave fixtures in their present slots from January-March . |
| 25 | For she had actually been engaged in the very pleasant task of deciding which room in her new house at Far Flatley might best be converted into a nursery when a messenger had come from Frizingley with the awful news . |
| 26 | Victim ‘ improves ’ : Doctors treating Michael Gibson , 20 , who was attacked in Darlington at the weekend have said his condition is improving and he has been taken off the critical list at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 27 | Following the violence in Rostock on Aug. 22-26 [ see p. 39065 ] and attacks on a hostel in Cottbus and two other Brandenburg towns on Aug. 29-30 , a hostel for asylum seekers was attacked in Eisenhüttenstadt during the nights of Sept. 4-5 and 5-6 , and 200 police and border troops were called in . |
| 28 | His move signalled some healing of a serious rift in the party , which had deepened in July during the passage of legislation on the media , when five ministers belonging to De Mita 's left-wing faction of the party had resigned from the government [ see p. 37624 ] . |
| 29 | A decision is expected before March on the barrage company 's application for a place in the non-fossil fuel obligation under the new Electricy Act , which gives the right to sell electricity to the privatised grid . |
| 30 | In the case of the Stommeln Synagogue , located in Pulheim-Stommeln in the extreme west of Cologne , an unusual exhibition venue has been created which has excited attention with its sensitive presentation of single works by Jannis Kounellis and Richard Serra . |