Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water .
2 When the adventurers are halfway across the room four foul , mutated forms suddenly spring up from the corpses and attack .
3 However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) .
4 Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life .
5 The trapdoor in the floor is intact and a set of stone steps below lead down to the basement , location 3a .
6 Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand .
7 ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’
8 Without going into matters which might be the subject of the inquiry , can the Secretary of State confirm , first , that there have been recurrent problems with the signalling at either end of the line , as a result of the damp ; and , secondly , the system in case of an emergency and a red light was for the relevant engine drivers physically to get out of the cab and use a telephone near the tunnel ?
9 A last few cars still bleed in from the next town .
10 Private eyes always win through in the end . ’
11 People and cars always came in through the big double gates .
12 Few 24-hour races ever go the full distance — fans usually burst on to the sacred tarmac 20 minutes or so before the official end
13 Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot .
14 The M.wt. of proteins N-terminally deleted down to the 73rd , 205th and 356th residue were 69 , 56 and 27kDa , respectively .
15 Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem .
16 Presently a governor of two Suffolk schools , the task is increasingly time consuming , responsible , unpaid and costly in terms of petrol consumed ( no travel expenses paid ) , but still rewarding in terms of relationships within the schools carefully built up over the years .
17 As soon as it did , the air rushed out of the compartment , and the flight of steps automatically extended out beyond the craft .
18 In many ways the CPVE conforms very closely to the goals originally set out for the GCSE .
19 Would the other speakers please come down to the front .
20 Darwin 's own account of the unrestrained ‘ law of battle ’ in animals readily fits in with the theory of natural selection ; therefore , as his account of the law of battle is now thought to be wrong , we are left with the problem of reconciling new observation and established theory .
21 Some 20 home fans then ran on to the field in response , but police were able to keep the two factions apart .
22 Happily , the warring parties then draw back from the unthinkable , negotiate a satisfactory peace and agree to serious talks on arms reduction .
23 From where she stood on the gravelled forecourt , she saw that the flight of steps ahead led up to the living accommodation at the higher level , no doubt to exploit the panoramic view , while below , built into the slope , were the garages and stores .
24 Still fresh and green at the back end , it could provide a juicy supplement to the diet of a early calving cow , or for the smallholder 's animals newly brought in to the byre for the winter .
25 The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain .
26 This chapter has portrayed the implementation process as a complex one , in many respects inextricably bound up with the policy-making process .
27 Those Germans not knocked out by the week-long bombardment were given time to reach their gun positions , and they poured an unremitting enfilade of lead at the doomed British soldiers .
28 These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them .
29 Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader :
30 On 9 November a Moscow circular from Secretary V. Molotov himself forbade somewhat belatedly the imposition of any local taxes not laid down in the list issued by VTsIK .
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