Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 2 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 3 | Aunt Lilian sent me accounts of local political meetings cut out from the Gazette , and her own analyses of the Labour Government 's foreign policy . |
| 4 | Suddenly , blood sacrifice and small armed groups rising up against the state seemed worthy of three cheers . |
| 5 | Coloured lights strung between low pylons bounce about amongst the palm trees . |
| 6 | She frequently sat up in the wee sma' hours staring out of the window . |
| 7 | The uncertainty surrounding the future of London 's specialty care services continues despite the publication this week of 6 reviews by working groups set up by the London Implementation Group after publication of the UK Department of Health 's response to the Tomlinson report on London 's health services . |
| 8 | The answers to these questions are discovered from the diagram ( given certain simple diagrammatic transformations carried out by the system , which are structurally analogous to changes that would happen in the real world ) , rather than being computed in terms of abstract mathematical equations and specific numerical values . |
| 9 | The process of generating the CSF begins with three-year or five-year regional plans drawn up by the individual member states which are then presented to the Commission . |
| 10 | A row of yellow , baleful eyes looked down from the darkness among the rafters . |
| 11 | There was deposition in large alluvial fans stretching out from the mountains in the south and the north-east into the flat plain . |
| 12 | She saw his hands relax , and the broad shoulders lean back in the chair . |
| 13 | The SSL holds a core collection of material covering scientific and technical aspects backed up by the National Library 's other relevant collections such as official publications , legislation , and popular science items . |
| 14 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 15 | Every now and then , one of the tall waves thundering in from the open ocean carries within it a dark sinister presence . |
| 16 | She could imagine what he looked like : dark , slightly wavy hair and blue eyes , the right eyes to look out over the miles of sea all around him . |
| 17 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 18 | The jobless figures were the first economic indicators to come out during the campaign , there are many more before election day . |
| 19 | The place was n't huge by country house standards — two storeys , twenty-something rooms — but its main entrance was a covered carriage porch with stone pillars and broad steps leading up to the doors . |
| 20 | Asa braked at the foot of broad steps leading up to the front entrance , walls and towers rising above them . |
| 21 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 22 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 23 | Registration of membership for the two political parties set up by the government to participate in the transition to civilian rule , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) , closed on May 5 , 1990 [ for their creation in October 1989 see p. 36968 ] . |
| 24 | Wooden balconies jutted out from the upper storeys , giving the plaza not only a feeling of space but of intimacy . |
| 25 | All round there are No Smoking signs strung up on the fences . |
| 26 | The action follows detailed investigations carried out by the board last month . |
| 27 | Another five reluctant paired birds took off as the panic spread around the pond . |
| 28 | There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens . |
| 29 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 30 | A group of British cyclists sets off in the heart of Brussels . |