Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplest technique involves asking directly for the order . |
| 2 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 4 | Haverford got going again with the cream jug . |
| 5 | A difference between McGregor and Tuckman seems to be that the former sees some groups as fixed in their poor behaviour , whereas the latter implies that groups tend to move out of the ineffective stages into more effective behaviour . |
| 6 | Can you tell me something about the crowd itself , erm did particular age groups tend to stand together around the ground or were the young |
| 7 | Janet Hargreaves has worked regularly in the West End , at the important provincial theatres ( Birmingham , Nottingham , Chichester etc. ) and on television in Dr Who , Crossroads , The Avengers , Voyage Around My Father and many other plays and serials . |
| 8 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
| 9 | As the fashion for hair has moved away from the hard , artificial post-punk era towards more natural styles , the emphasis has been on hair care products that promote softness and shine . |
| 10 | This story has lasted well during the past two millennia and many people still believe it , so that tom-cats are always kept carefully away from nursing mother cats and their young kittens , in case the urge to commit lust-inspired infanticide overcomes them . |
| 11 | So far , the case discussed in this book for the extended use of the industrial co-operative as a form of organisation for production or provision has stood primarily upon the proposition that it is an expression of authentic industrial democracy , that such an extension would help to fill a debilitating gap in the practice in the United Kingdom of western liberal principles , to mend what Bertrand Russell calls ‘ this disruption of democracy from within' . |
| 12 | The user simply selects available options based on what the user wants to get out of the system . |
| 13 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 14 | Pierre has taught all over the world — next month he 's running a course here at the Lygon Arms Hotel in Broadway . |
| 15 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 16 | Mammalian meiotic chromosome preparation has progressed considerably since the early days when a good squash preparation was the best that could be achieved . |
| 17 | Certainly , in many of his works the Prince has juggled well with the varied problems of painting and has produced a sensitive and interesting result . |
| 18 | Stonecutter 's Island has changed little since the British colonized Hong Kong . |
| 19 | Moreover the pace of technological change has increased steadily during the latter half of the twentieth century so that the farm worker in turn has had to become more adaptable to successive new innovations . |
| 20 | While the rate of management buyouts has slowed down with the recession those that were launched in Scotland had a good record of being completed . |
| 21 | However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating |
| 22 | Harris Corp 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Computer Systems Division has moved up to the second generation 88110 version of Motorola Inc 's RISC family with the Night Hawk 5000 series — which ca n't be called Night Hawk in the UK . |
| 23 | During the Stephanian the main area of sedimentation has shifted out into the North Sea . |
| 24 | One can only guess at how Howard and Redwood must feel about taking over a department , only to find that one of their political opponents has walked off with the money . |
| 25 | FAR from the crowded Second Division title race , Blackburn goalie Bobby Mimms loves coming back to the peace of his home village in North Yorkshire . |
| 26 | Suppose the night porter has gone through to the kitchen to make a sandwich . |
| 27 | Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season . |
| 28 | Swindon has grown economically in the last 15 years and the unemployment level was down to a record low 2 to 3 years ago . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 30 | The business of environmental consultancy has evolved rapidly over the past decade , with the number of UK firms involved jumping from 100 to 225 over the past couple of years alone . |