Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked covertly across the table at her , at the vital face , the dark eyes , the generous , amused mouth , the blue-black hair loosely knotted on to the crown of her head , so that curls and tendrils clung around the perfect oval of her face . |
| 2 | If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ? |
| 3 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 4 | An hour , and an hour perhaps to get back into the town — still plenty of time , as she had judged it , to catch the ten-forty-five for Bleasham . |
| 5 | A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone . |
| 6 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 7 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 8 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 9 | To achieve this we shall be drawing upon the products of archaeologists ' research mostly carried out during the present century . |
| 10 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 11 | While Hazel gazed , the wind slowly veered round into the west , as Cowslip had said it would , and brought the rain driving into the mouth of the hole . |
| 12 | The explanation is relatively straightforward ; the glucose slowly diffuses out of the capillary into the surrounding liquid , creating a gradient of sugar concentration . |
| 13 | Clear perspex sheet behind the terraces prevents gravel eventually seeping out between the bricks . |
| 14 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 15 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 16 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 17 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 18 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 19 | This scheme will be used in future for it provides an opportunity for the genuine fan who attends games against less glamorous opposition not to lose out in the real crowd pullers . |
| 20 | However , as I said , the industry broadly goes along with the CITB 's proposals and with this order , which embodies them . |
| 21 | When he first advocated these ideas Hare largely went along with the view of most attitudinists that a correct account of the meaning of ethical language has no definite implications as to what moral views one should take . |
| 22 | The spokeswoman for the mission said : ’ Recognition not tied in to the negotiating process is not a sensible thing right now . ’ |
| 23 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 24 | He 'd make $500,000 for every dollar the stock rises or $46m if the stock ever gets back to the $145 range . |
| 25 | Given the amount of negative equity still locking in to the system , it may be instructive to look at the UK consumer 's reaction to lower interest rates . |
| 26 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 27 | During the early part of 1988 the focus of research gradually moved back towards the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 28 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 29 | Our own experiences with walking were very quickly confirmed when we read in Time magazine , November 1989 , that after the most detailed fitness study ever carried out by the Aerobics Institute in America , it had been established that moderate exercise can have all the beneficial effects that are normally associated with hard ‘ no pain , no gain' exercising ( see Table 2 ) . |
| 30 | Rioting also broke out on the West Bank , where two Palestinians were shot dead , and in Nazareth and other towns within the pre-1967 " green line " . |