Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 2 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 3 | A fine flight of stone steps leads up to the gallery . |
| 4 | A flight of steps leads up from the courtyard and there is entry also from the house end . |
| 5 | Beyond that I suspect that 1,000dpi will become the breakpoint at which imagesetting based on optical methods takes over with the prices reducing significantly in that market as volumes increase . |
| 6 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 7 | Money in the Royal Life and Hafnia funds rolls up inside the bonds tax free , because they are offshore . |
| 8 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 9 | But most of the gap between Britain and other countries opens up within the next 20 years . |
| 10 | Five minutes later , the man with sunglasses comes out of the house and goes to the black car in the road . |
| 11 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 12 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts . |
| 14 | A pack of dogs swarms out of the entrance hall of some flats . |
| 15 | As α increases , a critical value α c is reached each time the i th layer of target atoms moves out of the cones , allowing for head-on collisions and , hence , back scattering as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 16 | A slow but unstoppable flood of sticky tubules pours out of the anus , fastening your fingers together in an adhesive tangle of threads . |
| 17 | But the association between the two Banks dates back to the founding of the Royal in 1727 when Andrew Drummond acquired stock in the new banking enterprise . |
| 18 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 19 | Because the matting is white in colour , the algae shows up against the matting extremely well , enabling quick and efficient cleaning . |
| 20 | The rule that delivery and payment are concurrent conditions ties in with the unpaid seller 's lien ( see Chapter 12 ) which entitles him in the absence of contrary agreement to retain the goods until payment . |
| 21 | But from the little things this Haverford Downs slips in about the ladies , would I be right in thinking he 's had a fair amount of experience with the sex ? ’ |
| 22 | Downs faces up to the past |
| 23 | In turn , the employment income generated by Scotch Whisky companies and their suppliers feeds through into the economy , supporting further jobs . |
| 24 | Policemen marshall grumbling queues whenever a load of bread or chickens jolts in from the country . |
| 25 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 26 | A curving drive amongst trees leads up to the side of the lake and continues thence along the edge of the water in beautiful surroundings richly endowed with lovely trees planted by the Farrers in the days long ago when woodlands were intended for ornamental display and were allowed to develop to full maturity with no thought of slaughtering them for profit . |
| 27 | Ablaze with brightly hued foliage , rolling hills , jagged cliffs and tiny fishing villages , this regions harks back to the Mother Country , with the added attraction of all the diversity that America can offer . |
| 28 | I did the demographic projections , erm , I think the difference that , er , Mr Grigson is talking about between dwellings and households comes about within the ability of the Chelmer model to input , erm , tt , calculated dwelling requirements . |
| 29 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 30 | I used to run , pick ladies smocks up down the tailors . |