Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Lay the interlining on top with the raw edges of interlining level with the marked hemline and top edge of the curtains ( fig. 31 ) . |
2 | This actual address will be identical with the key as transformed by the algorithm for home records , but will be different for synonyms , as the ancillary file used will allow all the records to be reached in a single seek , as if the file were self-indexed . |
3 | Other treatments adopt an over-simple solution to the problem , always preferring one source to another ; thus the algorithm of Hobbs ( 1976 ) looks at all intrasentential candidates before earlier sentences are considered at all , while Brennan , Friedman & Pollard ( 1987 ) prefer all candidates from the most recent sentence to ones from the current sentence . |
4 | UBS Securities vice president Marc Schulman correctly forecast the massive NT-on-Alpha tie-up and the intimacy between DEC and Microsoft thirteen months ago ( UX No 328 ) , more on the basis of logic than sources . |
5 | It would be a mistake , however , even when the intimacy between Lewis and Tolkien was at its strongest , to believe that this was the only thing in both their lives . |
6 | The intimacy between couples who take an interest in each other is an essential ingredient of a lasting marriage . |
7 | Jones was in his room in the Cabinet Offices , carrying on the routine business of a Labour Government , of which paradoxically he was throughout his life a consistent voting supporter , but enjoying none of the intimacy with MacDonald which he had achieved with each of the three preceding Prime Ministers . |
8 | Where do we learn how to behave in the intimacy of marriage ? |
9 | Nowhere is this amnesia more likely to apply than within the intimacy of marriage . |
10 | They are particularly unable to cope with the intimacy of marriage and , if bewildered by their spouse 's demands , may flare into violence . |
11 | Thirdly , and this is the most challenging categorisation , partnerships differ in terms of the intimacy of education business relationships which are developed . |
12 | It was a close partnership , made all the closer by the small numbers involved and the intimacy of Derry . |
13 | The " we-group solidarity which we associate with the intimacy of kinship , in the sense just described , tends to ramify outwards through the whole social system . |
14 | For them the din increased rather than destroyed the intimacy of conversation . |
15 | The intimacy of television meant that this strange animal that liked to subtitle itself ‘ intimate revue ’ had to be breathing its last . |
16 | One of the great passages of the Old Testament , Psalm 139 , expresses the intimacy of God 's love for us : |
17 | But there is a sense in much of the images that , notwithstanding the smallness of the final print the intimacy of impact which she wishes to share has escaped the frame of the viewfinder . |
18 | It has always happened , of course , but in the old days , when the stock market was a smaller and more human place , the intimacy of dealing lent some protection . |
19 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
20 | As women are largely responsible for the emotional wellbeing of society , it is hardly surprising that the shop-talk of women is gossip . |
21 | It broke Tony Cottee … and the Everton striker reveals for the first time the enormous cost of carrying the tag of Britain 's costliest player . |
22 | It was largely his own determination to be rid of the tag of illness that brought eventual healing . |
23 | Though he dismisses the tag of dreamer , the scale of his plans are on a different planet . |
24 | On the fateful night he ascended the stairs , passed through the barrier and greeted the porter on duty and then he walked down onto the track . |
25 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
26 | The Prince was in his cups , yet I thought it strange because the porter from Godstowe Priory did not arrive until the early hours of the morning . ’ |
27 | ‘ Your Grace , is it true that the first you heard of the news was when the porter from Godstowe arrived here ? ’ |
28 | All the same , Cadfael had a word with the porter before evening . |
29 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
30 | Simpson , another big-money signing from Oxford , split the defence for Gabbiadini to take on Munday , and cross low , where the ball went in off one of three defenders supposedly guarding the near post . |