Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before dealing with this submission , which seems to us a powerful one indeed , it is necessary to consider shortly the added dimension to this case brought about by the appellant 's implied undertaking . |
| 2 | ‘ A few notes spaced out like the first stars that penetrate the sky at sunset ’ , as Tovey describes the miraculous midway section . |
| 3 | He was unlikely to have her arrested again , and an unwanted pass might seem like fair payment for a few hours spent out of the confines of her depressing little room . |
| 4 | Then this pantomime carried on from the coast . |
| 5 | A typical short cut was the successful assumption that some indicators set up by the operators in the four machine windows were not random but girls ' names or four-letter dirty German words . |
| 6 | Some research carried out by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University ( in collaboration with the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York ) has produced some interesting material on joint action . |
| 7 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 8 | He could see the upturned hulls of a few boats drawn up onto the shore , mostly of fibreglass but some of varnished timber , all of them de-rigged and tied down against the weather . |
| 9 | However , obvious explanations are not always correct , and some studies carried out during the past couple of decades seem to suggest that , instead , we are born with an inherited knowledge of the signals that can indicate danger . |
| 10 | For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist . |
| 11 | His appeal came as another father caught up in the Warrington bomb tragedy said he felt the whole country was urging his son , the critically injured 12-year-old Timothy Parry , to survive . |
| 12 | Financial Times owner Pearson this week dropped out of the bidding for the Maxwell 51 per cent share in Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 13 | With a rat-tat at the door , a few envelopes dropped on to the doormat . |
| 14 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 15 | Yeah I mean if you get erm , I 'll tell you what actually , because it 's a two hour slot I can in one slot get them to y'know and th we 're not in a great hurry cos there 's usually a few spaces left over at the end of the term . |
| 16 | The only times he allowed Finlayson to get a clear view of him there was always another plane lined up on the other side . |
| 17 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |
| 18 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 19 | No one noticed that Bienvida , her grandmother 's granddaughter more than her mother 's child , had at some stage gone back to the Headmaster 's Flat and changed into dungarees to keep her Oxfam dress of nylon organza from getting dirty . |
| 20 | He whistled ‘ Roll Out the Barrel ’ out of tune as he pushed the few remains left over from the day towards the setting sun . |
| 21 | The military wing of Massoud Rajavi 's Mojahadin-e Khalq , the National Liberation Army ( NLA ) , had for some time operated out of the base with the permission of the Iraqi government . |
| 22 | Such sharks caught up in the net of pressganging were generally ideal raw material for the Guard . |
| 23 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 24 | Is the movement of such metalwork carried out by the manufacturer at all , as opposed to the purchaser or wearer , for instance as gifts or the movement of people in marriage ? |
| 25 | There is a cramped , faded little room given over to the recognition of the literary achievements of the region , in homage to writers who were not themselves Basques but who settled here : the playwright Edmond Rostand , author of the extraordinary Cyrano de Bergerac ; the exotic novelist Pierre Loti , who lived and died in Hendaye ; the sentimental poet Francis Jammes , pictured here in a charming naive portrait , impossibly bearded and together with his wife and their wildly staring dog . |
| 26 | If you had seen that band drawn up on the parade-ground , with full regalia glittering in the sun , while in front six bugles sounded Retreat and the audience came spontaneously to attention , you 'd have liked it , I 'm sure . |
| 27 | Their significance is not only in terms of the group experience but also in terms of the wider society , for it is these ideas born out of the street-corner groups , doing nothing , that are to a large extent the ‘ juvenile delinquency ’ of the police and criminologists . |
| 28 | These procedures carried on until the 1939–45 war . |
| 29 | These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews . |
| 30 | Charcoal has these tars driven off in the course of manufacture , leaving it as a clean , uncomplicated fuel for use in gasifiers . |