Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-way , interactive nature of Prestel has been shown above in the case studies where the Mailbox facilities were used to obtain information and learning materials . |
| 2 | the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships |
| 3 | At the end of the Mass there is a touching prayer as men go out into the world linking the sacrament of the one bread which binds all men in God with the bread and ale of human meeting : In the bidding prayers where the priest directs the people to pray and tells them what to pray for , probably after the offering and the anthem , again attention is directed to all estates of society , living and dead , including religious , both monastic and secular . |
| 4 | ( The floods , incidentally , are increasingly catastrophic because of the poor or non-existent conservation policy in the catchment areas where the forests have been recklessly and wantonly felled . |
| 5 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 6 | In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply . |
| 7 | The induction in the core is magnified by the high permeability , except in the saturation regions where the result can be seen to be a trapezoidal induction waveform ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 8 | As she left the cabin she took one of the oilskin jackets out the hanging locker . |
| 9 | Cabin air goes through the wheel wells when the gear is down , through a heat exchanger to wing fuel when aloft . |
| 10 | In particular , the statute does not incorporate the review procedures whereby the Home Secretary reviewed police warrants every month and security warrants every six months . |
| 11 | The recesses in the pillbox floors where the guns would have fitted are still there today . |
| 12 | It was my lot to live on the desert fringes where the rubbish lay . |
| 13 | Major demonstrations , not only outside the council offices where the charges were being debated and fixed but also in some cases involving violence within the council chambers themselves , occurred in particular over the period March 5-12 as councils took their final decisions . |
| 14 | In places there are gravel deposits — ; small smoothly rounded pebbles and sand — usually on the insides of the meander curves where the water flows less swiftly . |
| 15 | I record the backlight areas where the light breaks through the dense greenery with a thicker-than-usual mixture of cadmium yellow and a touch of sap green . |
| 16 | I record the backlight areas where the light breaks through the dense greenery with a thicker-than-usual mixture of cadmium yellow and a touch of sap green . |
| 17 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 18 | The turbine will run mainly during the winter months when the heavy rainfalls in the area ensure an abundance of fast flowing water , and it is hoped that electricity generation will start in 1991 . |
| 19 | Selected Landsat TM imagery taken during the winter months when the sun was low is being systematically processed for the entire United Kingdom land area . |
| 20 | In the winter months when the trees are bare I use a pen with a nib to draw the branches with the paint . |
| 21 | Low season — The time of year when business is at its quietest , usually the winter months when the lowest tariff prices are quoted . |
| 22 | By night the bars can get quite lively , although not quite so wild as they get during the winter months when the skiers reenact their greatest runs . |
| 23 | It was a difficult journey , especially in the winter months when the vagaries of intemperate and often violent weather meant that remote airports could be closed down within minutes . |
| 24 | RIGHT This is the main stem of the wing feathers where the two parts of the wing overlap . |
| 25 | ‘ It always astonishes me — the silence of the reed beds once the young have hatched . |
| 26 | After the first game the majority of the players had become accustomed to the range and accuracy of the paintball markers so the second game was much more exciting . |
| 27 | Hire a smaller disc or belt sander for finishing off the room edges where the big sander can not reach . |
| 28 | If things are as bad as the hon. Gentleman says , will my right hon. Friend ask the business men why the west midlands has managed to attract so much investment in manufacturing from abroad , why foreign countries have chosen to locate in the United Kingdom and whether they believe that those people would stay if they had to experience the burden of heavy taxation , job losses and days lost in strikes that would occur with the return of a Labour Government ? |
| 29 | The John Tillers were settled in the Ziegfeld Follies when the Lawrence Girls turned up in their practice outfits to join them . |
| 30 | By entering into an FRA , which sets the reinvestment terms when the three month CD matures , an overall return to the issuer higher than LIBOR minus ⅛ can be achieved . |