Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Having correctly spaced the members of the party at the other end of the rope , any spare rope should be coiled neatly around the leader 's shoulders and tied off with an overhand knot , ready for possible use later in the day . |
2 | Using the method recommended by Dunlap , Jones and Bittner ( 1983 ) correlations were calculated for each subject individually across the 24 films used in this study , correlations were then averaged for the 48 subjects using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver & Dunlap 1987 ) . |
3 | The localiser beam is fixed bearing from the transmitter and is only 2 ½° wide either side of the centre-line , approximately 250 ft wide for each mile away from the transmitter . |
4 | The glide path beam is approximately ½° wide , or deep , either side of the centre-line , about 50 ft for each mile away from the transmitter . |
5 | Like the last chapter it is not meant for hasty consumption immediately before the fray . |
6 | Our main programme tomorrow is earlier than usual at 6.00 p.m. to make way for European Soccer later in the evening . |
7 | Jupiter can be seen radiating mainly through narrow bands parallel to the equator , in particular through the band running just below the centre , where there are gaps in the upper cloud layers . |
8 | Suppose it is clear that convention does not dictate an answer either way in McLoughlin : convention requires that precedents be followed , but only so far as a new case is like the precedents in relevant facts , and no past case has decided whether damages must be awarded for emotional injury away from the accident 's scene . |
9 | Although the political will has been expressed in vigorous , interesting and dramatic terms at international conferences , in my judgement the political will to follow through that policy right across the globe to a degree that will be effective does not exist . |
10 | I stood about fifty metres away from the still steaming crater . |
11 | The new legislation of 1955 and 1961 emphasised the need for economic viability mainly through the provision of generous cropping and agricultural improvement grants . |
12 | What about this bit right at the start ? |
13 | Two of my colleagues from the BBC did , it is true , succeed in smuggling an entire satellite telephone system ( complete with dish ) through Iraqi customs shortly before the war began , and there are plenty of guns in private hands which can be bought ; but the Mukhabarat are everywhere , and it would be impossible to find out where Saddam was going to be at any given time . |
14 | Reorganizing the lay-out of the production process can therefore permit the much greater automation of final assembly processes if robots , for example , can be programmed to perform different operations for different models almost to the exact moment the components arrive . |
15 | ENGLAND skip John Bell and his Cumbria partner Andrew Baxter , who won both indoor and outdoor national triples championships last year , kept on course for another title yesterday at the Manchester Unity National Indoor Championships at Melton Mowbray . |
16 | And I have g I have paid for English lights just for the sake of a week |
17 | Comparing them to the English Baroque woodwinds , it is clear that they became the prototype and standard for English makers well into the 18th century . |
18 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
19 | LABOUR promised a better future for British women yesterday at the Northern launch of the party 's magazine for women . |
20 | There was considerable disagreement about foreign policy both within the Conservative Party and among the Opposition . |
21 | Furthermore , some interviewees will not wish to talk about painful experiences just for the benefit of a survey interviewer . |
22 | Nothing remained as it had been , except for some pictures aslant on the wall . |
23 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
24 | I think that with John Maynard-Smith around — and I hope he 'll be around for some time yet in the University of Sussex , and I hope the University of Sussex will be too |
25 | Because I have worked for some time now on the forming of music and sounds , and through this specific endeavour have become aware of the " molecular structure " parallel , I can see great form in " Beautiful Landscape Traversed By Electricity Pylons " , " Tiny Aeroplane In One Expansive Sky " , " One Cup of Tea With Spoon And Attached Shadows " , " One Bogey Slightly Protruding From Person 's Nose " and , apart from when I 'm blackly depressed , Life is seen from inside me to be better every day because of my positive use of the rich energy that is emitted from every thing , live or dead . |
26 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
27 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
28 | Like his friend ( and the undergraduate Darwin 's scientific hero ) the physicist John Herschel ( 1792–1871 ) , Lyell followed earlier writers , most notably the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid ( 1710–1796 ) , who had drawn this moral from the superior evidential credentials of the Newtonian gravitational force over the Cartesian ethereal vortices : any causes invoked in an explanatory theory should , ideally , be known to exist through direct observation independently of the facts they are supposed to explain . |
29 | The squalls were screeching now over their heads , rain curtains hurtling after each other seaward across the low swampland . |
30 | After prolonged negotiations both at the UN and in the Gulf , the UN proposals were finally agreed although military operations continued into 1988 and fighting continued in the waters of the Gulf . |