Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dirt and moisture are brushed off by the Coral Clean-off-Zone as people walk over it . |
| 2 | Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database . |
| 3 | The rules which must be followed in arranging and conducting the election are set out in the first schedule to the 1983 Act as amended . |
| 4 | This does not lead directly to higher prices , but the burden has in part been passed on to the consumer in reduced variety . |
| 5 | Just as in reverse discourse the categories of subordination are turned back upon the regimes of truth which disqualify , so this ‘ other ’ sensibility is in part affirmed as an inversion and absence of sensibility 's traditional criteria . |
| 6 | Schemes similar to Horse Watch are springing up around the country , initiated originally by the British Horse Society . |
| 7 | Now that interest rates are at historically low levels , considerable sums of money are moving out of the banks and building societies into equity based investments , the equity message seems to be getting home . |
| 8 | Other points of reliance are ruled out from the start . |
| 9 | Friends and a typewriter are superimposed on to the film of a car journey to Avebury , and background noise is provided , I think , by something called Throbbing Gristle . |
| 10 | If they beat Halifax , then the Yorkshire side are kicked out of the football league . |
| 11 | These two possible views of the Ring are kept up throughout the three volumes : sentient creature , or psychic amplifier . |
| 12 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 13 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 14 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 15 | When less fluid lavas are involved , which do n't break up into droplets , large gobbets of the molten rock are flung up from the vent , spreading out into irregular plates which may break up in the air into smaller bits . |
| 16 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |
| 17 | So the discharge itself is wiped away , and a small platinum loop or a cotton-wool-tipped orange stick is gently inserted into the urethral meatus , and samples from the urethra are plated out on the relevant culture media while others are smeared onto a microscope slide for staining and examination . |
| 18 | In the UK anyway , the published products of historical scholarship , monographs and articles in learned journals , are still the principal criteria upon which promotion and professional recognition are meted out within the humanities . |
| 19 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 20 | Responsible for heavy cleaning work , the movement of stores and for odd maintenance jobs ( e.g. the replacement of light bulbs etc. ) , major maintenance being carried out by the Polytechnic 's Building Division . |
| 21 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 22 | Though the effect is purely symbolic , even poetic , as well as chilling , much of its force depends on rapidly cutting away to Marion 's car being pulled out of the lake — a banal , everyday detail of the investigation that almost makes us doubt whether we really saw that skull , previously forced on the viewer with horrifying shock impact in the cellar scene . |
| 23 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 24 | The edging for a gravel drive must be deep enough to keep in the gravel which is below ground level , and high enough to prevent the gravel being spread on to the garden . |
| 25 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 26 | I can recall on one occasion the league programme being snowed off on the fifth Saturday in March . |
| 27 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 28 | For example , on the comment form which we gave to all respondents at the end of the field-work , one policewoman wrote , ‘ The idea of research being carried out within the RUC , or indeed any police force , is a good one . |
| 29 | In order to stop the printer echo being turned off at the end of the CLI command file , the CLI is suspended with the " . |
| 30 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |