Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as she shook her hair free and turned to the door , she realised that Miguel was already missing . |
| 2 | Keep the nipples dry and exposed to the air ; pads can make things worse . |
| 3 | I went back into the club proper and headed for the ‘ phone . |
| 4 | Although there has been consultation throughout all stages of the programme 's development , the team in Glasgow , which includes Elaine Wardrope , Ernst & Young 's marketing manager in Scotland , as well as Lockett , has run the programme day-to-day and dealt with the detailed implementation of the programme . |
| 5 | The tradition to which they belong evolved an accommodation of Christian doctrine to a body of teaching inherited from Greek philosophy about a kind of knowledge — noesis — which is neither intellectual nor sensual , but in essence experiential and manifested in the human soul . |
| 6 | He lay on his bunk with his eyes open and staring at the rafter ceiling for all the hours that were common for the men of Hut 2 . |
| 7 | You pass on to Manley Common and travel through the Delamere Forest to reach Nettleford Wood . |
| 8 | He collapsed back on the bed , eyes wide and staring at the white ceiling . |
| 9 | I try the seafront , but it 's wet and windswept — the summer attractions shuttered and shivering in the damp off the sea . |
| 10 | These characters fall into two broad categories , the radial shields are sometimes bar-like and long , often covered over by the disk covering which is usually small thin scales or occasionally stouter scales , or a disk covered by distinct plates with the radial shield distinct and integrated with the other plates . |
| 11 | This suggests the ‘ substitutive ’ wealth tax , which can be paid from income leaving wealth intact as opposed to the ‘ additive ’ wealth tax , which necessarily involves the sale of assets and corresponds to a strong aim of reducing wealth inequality . |
| 12 | At nearly fifteen he was already over six feet tall and towered over the little Irish doctor in front of him . |
| 13 | ( He ceased to be a member of the Institute on 3 September 1992 for failing to pay the Disciplinary Committee fine and costs under the terms of Bye-law 41 . ) |
| 14 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
| 15 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 16 | Those of you who saved or remember the ‘ CRAP ’ incident with me and some floozy who supported Sheff Utd but got on the list , will recall that I paid Sheff Utd some compliments … in the form of Hodges , pemberton and Bassett . |
| 17 | Leave your car in a brightly lit area , have your keys ready and check in the back before you get in . |
| 18 | I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions . |
| 19 | A statutory demand under s 268 , Insolvency Act 1986 could not be made to recover tax payable as determined by the General Commissioner when the notice of that amount had not been served on the taxpayer at his usual or last known place of residence under s 115 , TMA 1970 , according to Chancery Division in Re a Debtor ( No 124/50/91 ) , Ex Parte the Debtor v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 888 . |
| 20 | For the moment part-time and funded by the University , it is hoped that a private benefactor will be able to endow the chair for a full-time professor . |
| 21 | The tunnel , which is virtually free of neutral , or non-ionised , gas , is at least 1000 light years long and stretches from the Sun to the star Beta Canis Majoris and beyond . |
| 22 | Only the drugged flies lumbering and buzzing through the air and the idiot , eager frogs bellowing recognize no siesta . |
| 23 | She stripped her body naked and got under the covers . |
| 24 | All the women in the village had dressed in their best clothes with their hair freshly oiled and plaited , their earrings , nose-rings and necklaces of Indian silver rupees washed and glinting in the sunlight . |
| 25 | Joe could n't be sure without checking , but he thought that the street was somewhere outside of Soho proper and bordering on the fringe of Chinatown . |
| 26 | This was manned by a number of highly professional officers skilled and experienced in the technicalities of flying , and they put into practical effect the policies decided on by the member States to standardise procedures , facilities and levels of safety throughout the world . |
| 27 | As I expected , the jeeps were now arriving with the Commando dead and wounded from the areas around the village . |
| 28 | However , good and indispensable as personal libraries are , they are of necessity puny when compared with the whole store of human knowledge . |
| 29 | Like the liturgy , they provide a meeting point for the two and enter deeply into the means by which a visionary like Julian of Norwich conveys to others her apprehension of God alive and working in the being of man . |
| 30 | THERE was an amusing television programme last week called BOFTY — Bore of the Year — which meted out awards to those most guilty of pretentiousness , rudeness , ubiquity and any other media excess as decided by the satirical magazine , Private Eye . |