Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method may also be applied to breaking rock or concrete on sites where the application of explosives would be impracticable or undesirable . |
| 2 | Electronics millionaire Alan Sugar , who made a fortune selling hi-fis and computers at prices even the Japanese could not match , is planning to buy back his Amstrad company from investors . |
| 3 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |
| 4 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 5 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 6 | Even before the 1987 bill , local authorities had lost all influence over pay and conditions of teachers when the government took away the negotiating rights of the teachers ' unions and imposed a pay settlement . |
| 7 | By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies . |
| 8 | She knew what was right and wrong in fabrics just the same as she did in life , there were no grey areas . ’ |
| 9 | We have discussed , reflected and considered on the one hand , the impact of the lack of democracy and respect for human rights in our countries , and on the other , the restrictions of the free flow of information and access to media whereby the majority of African peoples are deprived of opportunities for self expression and full participation in the development process and nation building . |
| 10 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 11 | In the ensuing skirmish , bullets struck Richard Baxter 's door and windows until midnight when the fighting stopped . |
| 12 | If it 's courage it takes to put sports cars and coupes into production then the product planners at Mazda deserve a medal . |
| 13 | They planted shrubs and flowers in beds where the walls were , and put gravel inside the rooms and pieces of slate where the staircase was . |
| 14 | Sand and rock carried by the water helped to erode the limestone further and to chisel out cave passages and chambers in areas where the rock was particularly weak . |
| 15 | Needham had previously become Rector of Claughton in Lancashire , and because he could not be both Rector there and Master in Stockport simultaneously the Goldsmiths had required him to resign from the School . |
| 16 | So is this apathy and lack of interest not the result of a political system which dissuades people from taking an active role . |