Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the total mark up on the jars ? |
| 2 | If the retailer sells the sugar at 52p per bag , what is the total mark up on the bags ? |
| 3 | Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’ |
| 4 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 5 | He hurried up the narrow steps on to the parapet of the curtain wall . |
| 6 | Like the mash tun , it has a slotted base and the liquid runs out of the vessel over a bed of spent hops . |
| 7 | At the present time we correct the condition by surgery — pushing the displaced organ back to the right side and tacking it there with sutures . |
| 8 | and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty . |
| 9 | " Yeah , they have to spend so much of the galactic year out of the Milky Way or the galactic tax federation hammers them for gigacredits , but instead of paying for expensive inter-galactic travel they camp out on some backwater planet still in the galaxy and just hide , see ? |
| 10 | These send the expectant mothers out on the tiles again where , if they are mated once more , they will be fertilized again and then carry two litters at two different stages of development . |
| 11 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is general support for the emphasis that the Foreign Secretary has placed on the importance of keeping the European Commission out of the nooks and crannies of our national life ? |
| 12 | It was a gentle climb through the sub-Alpine forest on to the melting snowline . |
| 13 | ‘ Get the damn thing out of the way ! ’ yelled Harold Shoosmith . |
| 14 | By the time he reached the low bridge on to the wharfs , he had decided to try and see Julie that afternoon . |
| 15 | In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets . |
| 16 | Both Governments regard the current upsurge in loyalist murders as an urgent incentive to get the political parties back around the negotiating table . |
| 17 | He is the odd man out at the ball , he only wants one kiss , but it always eludes him . ’ |
| 18 | But they were forced by bad weather to abandon their efforts to entice the marooned males out into the safety of deep water . |
| 19 | After a successful sting , like El-Jorr 's in Los Angeles , the DEA agents would turn the counterfeit currency over to the Secret Service and both could claim credit for the seizure . |
| 20 | I sent home the the that document in with the national curriculum 's er report . |
| 21 | The boy threw the sticky grain up into the air and the pigeons swooped down after it . |
| 22 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 23 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 24 | I would n't be surprised if they were the sort of people who had the stolen bicycle down in the bushes . |
| 25 | After the ceremony , the newly-weds cycled the eight miles back to the reception ( held in a friend 's garden ) on their tandem . |
| 26 | Calm and quiet , Trent picked him as the technical adviser along for the trip but without direct responsibility for the outcome . |
| 27 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 28 | The ill wind that blew one of the pre-tournament favourites out of the Selborne Salver sent a breath of good fortune over Mark Treleaven at a sun-drenched Blackmoor Golf Club on Saturday . |
| 29 | The problem with the political-business cycle literature lies in the fact that it attempts to deal with the popularity of governments and the nature of public policy-making solely on the basis of a consideration of economic variables alone and so isolates the economic dimension out of the larger political context and ignores the vital part played by non-economic factors in contributing to electoral success . |
| 30 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |