Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 2 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 3 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 4 | Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite . |
| 5 | Police estimated no more than 30,000 party supporters turned out on the heavily barricaded streets , eager to be arrested by the 75,000-strong security forces . |
| 6 | A police car streaked by on the relatively traffic-free side of the M4 , its siren 's wail mournful , and the flashing light replaced the sodium yellow filling the car taking my mind to another time . |
| 7 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 8 | Gyggle started off with the most sophisticated of these , the symbol and colour cards , but was soon reduced to getting me to try and guess — and a guess is all I could make — which of three paper cups had a ping-pong ball under it . |
| 9 | To help its clients keep up with the seemingly exponential growth of market data , Yamaichi Securities Co. , Ltd. has created the world 's first integrated information system focused exclusively on the financial sector . |
| 10 | This alone improves NEC by around £70/kW/ year and the final NEC works out at the much more favourable — £93/kW/year . |
| 11 | Hungary stood out as the most environmentally aware country in Eastern Europe , with over half of its companies having implemented environmental policy . |
| 12 | It is true that Eliot went through all the ritual gestures with almost perfect precision ; and his impeccably-dressed figure stood out among the rather battered brethren stationed in front of us . |
| 13 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 14 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 15 | Tense thriller concocted out of the most unpromising elements : three characters , two boats , and a lot of water . |
| 16 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 17 | Secondly , the championship itself was especially rich in first-class drivers : Ferrari , his chief rivals , had Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni as its main drivers ( with Reutemann filling in for the grievously injured Lauda at Monza ) , and Lauda , far more than Hunt , was at the very peak of his form , the peak of Lauda 's form being , together with Alain Prost 's , the summit of racing artistry . |
| 18 | As the black lines creep back through the newly faced walls |
| 19 | The old guard hit back at the newly formed , broad-based Union of Democratic Forces , which is organising tomorrow 's demonstrations . |
| 20 | One is pictured as mum exchanges glances with her llama neighbour and Geoff Edwards , who is helping to look after them , said : ‘ They are really delighting the young visitors jumping about in the unusually warm and sunny weather . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 22 | Ace snapped savagely , causing Benny to step back from the unexpectedly vicious tone in her voice . |
| 23 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
| 24 | In 1965 the young Cooder teamed up with the equally young Taj Mahal in a band called The Rising Sons . |
| 25 | Pushing the door closed again , Grant limped over to the dead oriental . |
| 26 | One of these is simply to reduce the 240 volt mains supply down to the much lower voltage required by the circuit . |
| 27 | The Saturday afternoon was drawing in now and Carrie looked out through the partly drawn curtains at the dark , rolling clouds . |
| 28 | JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything . |
| 29 | The day progressed and temperatures and humidity rose along with the fiercely contested matches . |
| 30 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |