Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last twenty years the importance of migration has been reinforced by the decline in rates of natural increase ; now that births and deaths are almost in balance , migration is the crucial determinant of whether population grows or contracts even at the national level . |
| 2 | The Taxing fee when a bill has been taxed is 5p for each £ or part thereof of the total bill including disbursements and VAT . |
| 3 | The seat backs and seats passed along benches fitted with rollers in the centre , so that each man performed his own operation and then passed the back or seat along to the next man in the line . |
| 4 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 5 | It means giving a word of knowledge or prophecy perhaps for the first time . |
| 6 | The opportunities for using knowledge to shop around successfully for good-value credit involve both choosing between different types of credit ( bank loan versus H P , say ) and choosing between different terms or arrangements even within the same credit type . |
| 7 | To firm up their security against subsequent security interests created by the company and which would otherwise have priority , floating charges almost invariably contain a provision that restricts the right of the company to create charges that have priority to or rank equally with the floating charge ( called a negative pledge clause ) . |
| 8 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 9 | Yet I can still detect the presence of a large lorry or bus out of the extreme corner of my eye . |
| 10 | Stage 6 takes us to sealing in the dowels with stitches across the pockets , and the securing straps are added 9 1/2 in or 24cm down from the front end of the leading edge pocket . |
| 11 | At night there were no longer any bonfires to be seen , either on the hill or way out on the surrounding plain . |
| 12 | Young Londoners showed either indifference or elation yesterday to the extraordinary scenes in Berlin . |
| 13 | From the lively , modern city of Toronto to the undeniable French flavour of Montreal or Quebec through to the rugged grandeur of Banff or Niagara Falls , discover the soul of this friendly country . |
| 14 | Cut out the square or rectangle just inside the marked line to allow for the thickness of the tin . |
| 15 | A CABINET seat has long been mooted for Virginia Bottomley , who is unique in managing to elicit praise and admiration even from the die-hard male chauvinists in her party . |
| 16 | Life table analysis showed 1 , 2 , and 5 year survival rates of 57% , 31% , and 17% respectively for the whole group . |
| 17 | But the country was quite aware of the benefits of home production , and Parliament together with the indefatigable Elizabeth became desirous to " … that benefit State might reap by making Copper in her Realm therebye to be provided of a Competent Store for her necessary without being beholden to forragne Princes her Neighbours … " |
| 18 | It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge . |
| 19 | Local NGOs thus divert resources and personnel out of the public health services . |
| 20 | The importance of this love and its physical demonstration is acknowledged in ceremonies and rituals all over the Indian sub-continent . |
| 21 | The first is that , if the Rokkaku is a real handful and pitches over from the vertical even when a steady pull is made on the flying line , then extend the upper section of the single line bridle connector by slipping the Lark 's Head knot down You will then have lowered the towing point relative to the sail . |
| 22 | A common case is that of cylindrical symmetry , where the material is stretched along , say , the 1-axis and contracts equally along the two axes perpendicular to 1 . |
| 23 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 24 | They have lent forms and skills even to the great serpent who beguiled Eve , who swallowed Jonah and who wrestled in the wilderness with the young man from Nazareth . |
| 25 | Sometimes he 'd throw up his hands and storm out of the front door , returning to my apologies and his apologies and yet another spice cake . |
| 26 | Mark Raggett , a businessman spearheading the effort , said : ‘ If I was to take some of these materials and technologies back to the Soviet Union , I would probably be breaking the law . ’ |
| 27 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |
| 28 | The new National Certificate Modules in Sciences will provide the possibility of a range of modules appropriate to the needs of the individual , industry and employers well into the 1990s . |
| 29 | They scrubbed the tiles and put the bucket and cloths away in the little room at the back of the Chapel where the flower pots were kept and the Minister 's clothes . |
| 30 | ‘ No ’ , I replied , ‘ I 'm going to send this to both Andropov and Brezhnev directly via the Central Committee ’ . |