Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [prep] the " 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 | Following the introductory assessment of the market context of handheld electronic books in this current section , this report provides two main areas of update . |
| 4 | From the introductory note to the 1978 publication ‘ What 's wrong with Britain ? ’ edited by Patrick Hutber . |
| 5 | See the introductory section in the Unit and its explanation of the movement from meaning to form . |
| 6 | Helen Cooper notes that the inferrable character of the Nun 's Priest is the same as the inferrable character of Chaucer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( The British had cornered the khaki-drill market for the Boer war . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Using the inside scale of the protractor |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Traffic tailed back fourteen miles after police were forced to close the inside lane of the northbound carriageway . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Keep your body weight applied to the back part of the inside rail throughout the turn . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The following example is from The Fix : the Inside Story of the World Drug Trade : |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Run a blunt knife around the inside edge of the tin and turn out the cake on to a wire rack to cool . |
| 24 | But as she kept to the inside edge of the footpath to avoid being splashed by the congestion of horse-drawn vehicles her gaze turned to the heart of the city , and all at once her spirits lifted . |
| 25 | Such work was often ‘ signed ’ with the binder 's ticket or , after about 1830 , with the name stamped in very small letters on the inside edge of the front or back cover . |
| 26 | The joint of the foot ( the inside edge of the widest part ) should also fit perfectly into the inside curve of the shoe , and the sole where it rises towards the heel should support the arch of the foot correctly . |
| 27 | Again , the 1in roughing gouge does most of the work , followed by the half inch bowl gouge for the inside edge of the rim . |
| 28 | If you were on one side of the inside edge of the ring and you wanted to get to a point on the other side , you would have to go round the inner edge of the ring . |
| 29 | Now to some extent our concerns have been diffused , it seems that we misunderstood the distribution , er we now know , thanks to this morning that the hundred and forty five hectares for Greater York is on the inside edge of the York greenbelt and not footloose in the Leeds York corridor . |
| 30 | She was wondering what else to try when her fingernail slid into a tiny groove on the inside edge of the uppermost star . |