Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 2 | The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and characteristics of non-deglutitive motor activity inthe normal human oesophagus and to study the relation of this oesophageal motor activity to motility patterns elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 3 | Francis Pym went to Defence ; Peter Walker to Agriculture ; Sir Ian Gilmour also to the Foreign Office ; Norman St John-Stevas became Leader of the House . |
| 4 | It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue . |
| 5 | Martin Meeks has seen his income rise sharply since the '70s . |
| 6 | ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established . |
| 7 | Pictures done in the zoo can be much better than those done in a museum from a dry skin , perhaps not very convincingly stuffed ; but only if there are field sketches too for the artist to work from can he hope to get the background right . |
| 8 | Champagne ages perfectly in the producers ' cellars with a cheap crown cork , and only sprouts its traditional mushroom just before it goes on sale . |
| 9 | Such a description accounts well for the situation of SF for children , who do not yet possess the relevant textual or literary competence to perform advanced reading-strategies such as implicature , bridging and high-level interpretation . |
| 10 | Whereas some areas have a per capita income level well above the EC average , there simultaneously exist areas which have just a fraction of that average . |
| 11 | To promote OTC products successfully through the high street chains nowadays , you have to have a substantial turnover ( £10–15m or so ) to be able to afford the TV advertising . |
| 12 | But Lewis passionately wants to beat Bowe inside not outside the ring and is prepared to take a derisory 10 per cent of the projected $30m fight instead of the normal 25 per cent . |
| 13 | But Lewis passionately wants to beat Bowe and is prepared to take 10 per cent of the projected $30m fight instead of the normal 25 per cent . |
| 14 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 15 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 16 | TODAY 'S excellent programme at Cheltenham has not been ruined by the hard ground to the extent which at one time appeared likely and there are two bonus runners , namely the champion hurdler , Beech Road in the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle , and the Queen Mother Two Mile Champion Chase winner Barnbrook Again in the A.F.Budge Handicap Chase . |
| 17 | His weekly half-hour CBC programme was one of the most popular and kept his Victor recordings high in the rating charts . |
| 18 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |
| 19 | At the holding point we selected flap fifteen , exercised the airbrakes out and back again ( they take a second or two to run each way ) , zeroed the tail trim , turned on the heaters for the twin pitot heads ahead of the windscreen and checked the cockpit for red lights , any of which means no-go . |
| 20 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 21 | With a cable break close to the ground there is always plenty of room ahead for the landing . |
| 22 | Varig knows Brazil best , being able to serve you efficiently through 170 branch offices all over the country , with connecting flights to 77 large towns and leading cities in Brazil and South America . |
| 23 | fwd[n] takes the navigation n steps forward from the current position . |
| 24 | Recoil punched hard and ejected shell casings angrily around the nose compartment , some clattered into the rear of the instrument panel and blew its circuits . |
| 25 | Many factors are at work : physique , training , careful preparation months before in the Vuelta d'Espana or the Giro d'Italia ( rarely both ) , self-knowledge , confidence , the constant assistance of domestiques and then more distinguished teammates . |
| 26 | With a new single imminent and a debut album currently in the writing stage ( both definitely on the funky tip ) , Jamiroquai can justifiably hold his head high . |
| 27 | In working with a family , after an initial assessment interview primarily with the elderly person , the social worker may find him/ herself working with : |
| 28 | The Loyalist Coalition , consisting of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party led by William Craig and the Democratic Unionist Party led by the Rev. Ian Paisley together with the Anti-White Paper Unionists led by Harry West , refused to take part in the talks . |
| 29 | Kate Curran and 32-year-old Angela were in Mrs Curran 's Edenvale Avenue home in the village of Eden near Kilroot , when the killer struck . |
| 30 | At higher drug concentrations more of the drug is bound to weaker sites and the dissociation profile contains a greater proportion of faster components . |