Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we just get fifty or sixty back for the |
| 2 | So they move three or four from the mixed ability middle band up to the top band , and three or four down to the middle band . |
| 3 | All the time , the gun was in his hand or close by on the floor . |
| 4 | While Frank was ‘ climbing , fighting , playing , & robbing orchards ’ , Coleridge was more likely to be found in the meadows by the River Otter — first of those rivers , brooks and springs that were to work so powerfully on his mind — or close by at the sandstone cavern known as Pixies ' Parlour , where with the ‘ hand of … childhood ’ he carved his initials in the rock . |
| 5 | A skilful dealer may get considerably more money than that out of the punter by implying , sometimes even saying directly , that this OTC stock was a better buy even than Rolls Royce . |
| 6 | Despite publicity about their strict code of conduct , it was obvious that the rules had been broken because when the time came for the first troupe to go home , John was astounded to learn that eight out of the sixteen had married during the run and intended to remain behind and every one of the other eight was engaged . |
| 7 | The pattern of shareholding in companies is changing rapidly , with a declining role for individuals , but even so , Scott has shown ( 1985 , p. 77 ) that 43 out of the top 250 British firms are still controlled through personal shareholding . |
| 8 | Figures are hard to come by , but the recent report Trends in public library selection policies notes that 12 out of the 32 libraries surveyed kept ‘ some ’ information about allocations for stock revision ( suggesting that the remainder did not have any formal programmes of revision ) . |
| 9 | They claimed that 133 out of the 225 MPs had signed the petition , which cited 24 cases of alleged corruption and nepotism . |
| 10 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 11 | The survey also found that 17 out of the 23 airlines capitalise interest on advance payments for aircraft being acquired . |
| 12 | The council 's survey shows that 50 out of the 340 double and single decker buses in the fleets of County Durham 's six major operators are more than 15 years old . |
| 13 | During a fortnight-long project , 6,000 volunteers found that 13 out of the 16 types of litter counted showed an increase on previous years . |
| 14 | Sir : As a Tuscan expatriate in Britain , I feel duty bound to point out that five out of the eight Italians included in the '50 mastersingers of Europe' were from Tuscany : Dante , Michelangelo , Leonardo , Machiavelli and Galileo . |
| 15 | It was about four-fifths sweetened whipped cream , to be spooned rather than drunk out of the glasses in which it was served , and one-fifth of wine and whey which had separated from the whip , and which you drank when you reached the end of the cream . |
| 16 | WITHIN A RELATIVELY short period of time , Ferruccio Furlanetto has established himself as one of the most sought after of all operatic basses , recording for no less than five out of the world 's six leading recording organisations . |
| 17 | One of the features of the morning foursomes was that no less than five out of the six matches went to the 18th green , or beyond , before the professionals emerged with a 4 to 2 lead . |
| 18 | For more than thirty out of the forty students , the biggest fear was that they might , as one of them put it , ‘ end up like that ’ . |
| 19 | It is remarkable that two out of the three patients here described are children under the age of 10 years whose grievous sufferings commenced almost with their birth and would in all probability have continued to their death had not this infirmary been established . ’ |
| 20 | and can you make it so that two out of the three can deal with it . |
| 21 | But is may not be an accident that two out of the last three large , completed bids have ended up as tender offers , not full-scale takeovers . |
| 22 | This represented 6.8 per cent of the population , although 10,000,000 out of the total population of 56,100,000 were of recent foreign origin . |
| 23 | There was n't a sound , yet she was convinced that close by in the darkness someone lay in wait . |
| 24 | In 1983 , more than 46,000 out of the total 114,000 homes — public and private — in Wigan were on housing benefit . |
| 25 | Total registrations at 8,384 were more than 400 up on the previous year and membership increased by 50 to 1,728 at the year end . |
| 26 | They would go out Glen Baily and past loch and then right over into Glen Shee and that up over the Devils Elbow then . |
| 27 | But there was a lot of them they used to work with er the oil lamps and that out in the henhouses. the hens eggs , they feed at night . |
| 28 | In the back , squashed in beside two hot and complaining children , Molly tried her best to restrain the youngest on her lap from wrenching open the door and free-falling out towards the autostrada . |
| 29 | She had undergone a sea-change into something rich and strange down in the depths of Lucifer . |
| 30 | The ones who had stopped were looking over their shoulders at a cordon of men drifting in twos and threes out of the side streets and doorways and converging on the play . |