Example sentences of "the hole in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 2 | The method of preparing the blank before inserting the cutlery blank is simply to drill and clean out the hole in the shaft before fixing , put the Special T on the tang and insert with the handle on top so the Special T does not run down the wood . |
| 3 | With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) . |
| 4 | Trying to plug the hole in the dyke with reserves and then appearing to react to , instead of pre-empting , a widely-anticipated rise in German interest rates , left the impression that the authorities were tailing behind events . |
| 5 | WELLINGTON — The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica threatens to be bigger than ever this year , according to New Zealand scientists , writes David Barber . |
| 6 | The hole in the screen coincided with screams and the lights going up and the immediate disappearance of the images . |
| 7 | She is expected to place great emphasis on Britain 's contribution to controlling the hole in the ozone layer and global warming . |
| 8 | I pushed open the door and we looked at the hole in the floor . |
| 9 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 10 | He answered at once , ‘ Whenever I 'd found the hole in the floor . |
| 11 | The silver ball sped up the slight incline lighting up the Bakelite mushrooms as it struck them , ricocheting back and forwards , up and down , before vanishing down the hole in the corner . |
| 12 | In this bundle , all the hydrophobic surfaces are hidden and the researchers surmise that this makes a water-soluble package for a hydrophobic part of the molecule , which actually creates the hole in the insect 's gut . |
| 13 | Coming from an administration whose leader laid claim to effective action on global issues such as the hole in the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect ( see Chapter 11 ) , this revealed a remarkable weakness in the position of the DoE . |
| 14 | Remove from the top and push the shaft of the white jumper into the hole in the base of the controller . |
| 15 | He did not even notice when one of his class became stuck in the hole in the floorboards and was there all day until Endill had the idea of smearing him with butter to slide him out . |
| 16 | The hole in the ozone layer is real ; shown here over the Antarctic , in a computer-enhanced picture taken by NASA . |
| 17 | Instead the book details the major green issues that have been in the headlines , such as the greenhouse effect , acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer , offering a history of each and listing the consequences and possible remedies . |
| 18 | He applied his eye to the hole in the paint and gazed , as if through a telescope already fixed and focused , at the young woman seated on the far side of the lobby . |
| 19 | And lots of lean-to teashops with their sticky mud floors , mud walls with greasy pictures of gods and film stars ; the hole in the ground at the back where plates and glasses were washed and mouths swilled out ; grimy tables with uneven legs ; ants and wasps crawling around on the food displayed in front of the shop . |
| 20 | After this the hole in the shell is sealed and the embryo is allowed to develop for a few days . |
| 21 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 22 | Nutty hesitated , looked back , and saw Jazz emerging bottom first out of the hole in the hedge . |
| 23 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 24 | THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR |
| 25 | In the cancer patient 's world , the moment of truth , the hole in the floor is called the diagnosis . |
| 26 | The increasingly high profile of problems such as the greenhouse effect , the hole in the ozone layer , agricultural pollution and the state of Britain 's waterways has pushed the environment to the top of the political agenda , and the government is keen to be seen responding . |
| 27 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |
| 28 | SEAMUS McKEE presents a live selection of festival music and song featuring the HUNT DUO , STEVE TILSTON & MAGGIE BOYLE and the HOLE IN THE WALL GANG from Studio 1 , BBC Broadcasting House . |
| 29 | IT IS POSSIBLE to reduce the amount of salt people consume by making the hole in the salt shaker smaller and placing the shaker out of reach . |
| 30 | At that time , most concern was being shown towards preventing farm animals from falling into the hole in the ground . |