Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his efforts to tear into his food with Latin gusto , or the slicked-down hair above the urban American face , he simply ca n't appear to be a native of a provincial Italian town . ‘ |
| 2 | It leads towards the Introductory Certificate of the National Examination Board for Supervisory Management ( N.E.B.S.M. ) |
| 3 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 4 | Following the introductory assessment of the market context of handheld electronic books in this current section , this report provides two main areas of update . |
| 5 | Michael was asked to give the introductory lecture at an engineering conference on the subject of his government review . |
| 6 | This is the introductory article to an occasional series on Broad Gauge topics , in particular on modern developments centring on the Firefly Project , in which a team at Didcot is building a broad gauge locomotive . . |
| 7 | From the introductory note to the 1978 publication ‘ What 's wrong with Britain ? ’ edited by Patrick Hutber . |
| 8 | See the introductory section in the Unit and its explanation of the movement from meaning to form . |
| 9 | Helen Cooper notes that the inferrable character of the Nun 's Priest is the same as the inferrable character of Chaucer . |
| 10 | A decree law of Oct. 17 which introduced strict limits on the right of workers in essential services to strike , provoked a strong protest from the anti-Menem faction of the main CGT union confederation . |
| 11 | ( The British had cornered the khaki-drill market for the Boer war . ) |
| 12 | Investment institutions , companies , and banks have become much more sophisticated in the operation of their affairs across national boundaries , as witnessed by the spectacu-lar growth in the Euro-currency markets . |
| 13 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 14 | It is useful to put this information on the inside cover of a loose-leaf course folder . |
| 15 | Large plants and containers make this impractical , and it is then a case of loosening the soil-ball at the sides with a stick pushed down against the inside wall of the container . |
| 16 | Using the inside scale of the protractor |
| 17 | Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1 . |
| 18 | Also on the A one in the Leeming area the inside lane of the south bound carriageway 's closed at Holby Grange for emergency gas repair works and delays are likely as a result there . |
| 19 | Okay on the er A one area that 's the er Bedale area , the earlier north bound lane closures have been lifted and the Leeming area the inside lane of the southbound carriageway 's closed at Holby Grange for emergency gas repair works and delays are likely as a result . |
| 20 | Traffic tailed back fourteen miles after police were forced to close the inside lane of the northbound carriageway . |
| 21 | It is now possible to obtain purpose-made double-glazed units incorporating ‘ low E ’ , or low emissivity , glass which includes a thin and imperceptible metallic coating on the inside surface of the outer leaf of each unit to reflect interior heat back into the room while allowing solar heat to enter the building . |
| 22 | 2 ) Excision which involves the cutting of the clitoris and of all or part of the smaller lips ( labia minora ) 3 ) Infibulation which involves the cutting of the smaller lips of the clitoris , at least the anterior two thirds of the inside part of the larger lips ( labia majora ) and the stitching together of the two sides of the vulva . |
| 23 | Keep your body weight applied to the back part of the inside rail throughout the turn . |
| 24 | If you are the inside board and have an overlap over the board outside you at two board lengths before the mark , you are entitled to the inside position around the mark . |
| 25 | The following example is from The Fix : the Inside Story of the World Drug Trade : |
| 26 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 27 | Mount the tanks side by side on the firm base and stick a length of sheet glass over the inside joints with a smear of silicone sealer . |
| 28 | It is useful to tap New line after sub-headings ( eg after shoulder headings , see Task 20 below ) and after short lines to be selected as a single block of text , eg a list ( see Task 4 ) , or the inside address of a letter . |
| 29 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |
| 30 | A third method is for the binder to stamp his name ( usually in minute letters ) on the inside edge of a front or back cover , or sometimes on a fly leaf . |