Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flakes of torn skin curl back from the wound like pith on an orange . |
| 2 | For years Caleb conducted his failed building business entirely for the benefit of his assignees , |
| 3 | This old Methodist Church hall is an impressive building with a red and mellow brick facade standing in this pleasant side road close to the heart of Oxford and within easy walking distance of the city centre University and Polytechnic . |
| 4 | The Hotel Seinduin is positioned in a pleasant side street directly behind the seafront and near to the main boulevard of Scheveningen . |
| 5 | The letter does not have a line of symmetry and if we make the right side look exactly like the left , we get a circle with lines on it . |
| 6 | They came to a kitchen with a spacious drawing room beyond at the front of the house . |
| 7 | There is a shop full of wines and souvenirs , and a pleasant picnic spot together with the site of the ‘ Piltdown Man ’ find . |
| 8 | The Scots fear discrimination most in the livestock sector where lower limits on qualifying numbers for production subsidies would be particularly painful . |
| 9 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 10 | Duclos rattled the empty champagne bottle impatiently against the table-top as he picked them up . |
| 11 | It was intended to cover two-thirds of the East German budget deficit up to the end of 1994 . |
| 12 | Despite a rising Unix base , he is facing flat membership of 6,500 souls and 69 corporate sponsors and a clear lack of enthusiasm for the old user group even among the diehards . |
| 13 | Four Louis XVI wall-lights valued at £3,000 are being sold from the French-style drawing room along with the £5,000 giltwood suite and 1850 card tables . |
| 14 | He flung the damp tea towel on to the table . |
| 15 | Application for admission to the first year of these courses should be made on the University 's direct entry form directly to the University of Ulster . |
| 16 | Use a light make-up remover specifically for the eyes and , if you like to use an eye cream , choose a light formulation . |
| 17 | It was the ‘ liberal socialism ’ espoused by Hobson , not Lenin 's Marxism , that played the dominant part in British peace politics well into the inter-war years . |
| 18 | CALMS offers similar facilities but uses the public telephone network instead of the mains for communication . |
| 19 | We 've been concerned on the AIDS-H I V front to try and develop home helps , home care services , and to get more social work help in with the general medical services that deal with these er diseases . |
| 20 | We use to dig er , we use to dig er , we use to dig er , dig the old ice box over with the drinks in it , ice with the orange juice , and gin and tonic and all bloody sorts |
| 21 | If a Burton man turned his empty beer-pot upside down on the table they knew there was going to be trouble . |
| 22 | Those chores done , and the synthetic fabric of the precious sails covered from the ravages of sunlight , I hefted my old marine kit bag on to the dock where Ellen was waiting to ambush me . |
| 23 | We hope that the awarding of the contract will help to safeguard our national electronic warfare capability well into the next century . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's rented an old farmhouse right out in the middle of nowhere on the common , beyond your place and even more isolated , believe it or not . |
| 25 | A third possibility is that two of you have completed our Fal Sail course earlier in the year . |
| 26 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 27 | These wagons had a different coupling system over in the island ; the sound of I O M shunting is quite different from mainland shunting , you do n't get the clunk of the links on a loose-coupled wagon but a delayed clank as the ‘ chopper ’ of one drops over the buffing plate of another . |
| 28 | The will of Laurence Sheriffe , for example , who died in 1567 , allowed for the support of ‘ a free grammar school chiefly for the children of Rugby and Brownsover ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I brought you these , ’ he mumbled and thrust a brown paper bag on to the bed . |
| 30 | The approach came from Maurice Rosengarten , who ran Decca 's European operation from Zurich and who had spotted the struggling Georg Solti immediately after the war . |