Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 2 | These are filled with blood vessels and so help cool the animal , but they also collect and funnel sound into the earhole . |
| 3 | So from then on they learnt the discipline of budgeting and faithfully sent home the pound themselves . |
| 4 | The purpose of the present chapter is to note some of the practical difficulties of managing book provision programmes , to try and suggest minimum system requirements for effective management and finally to outline briefly the important features of existing management systems . |
| 5 | Its sites were on variable , disturbed and fertilised soils and mainly included only the less vulnerable trees . |
| 6 | It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again . |
| 7 | It is shareholders who , at least in theory , appoint the chairman and should ensure a balanced board and therefore have perhaps the primary role in enforcing the Cadbury code . |
| 8 | He raised the lid , gazed for an instant at the contents and quietly blew away the dust from the tops of the brightly coloured pots . |
| 9 | The new philosophers ‘ cut off and deny the noblest parts of nature and then sweep together the dust of agitated atoms and tell us that they have resolved all the phenomena in nature ’ . |
| 10 | Jon Scargill 's five-year-old has been in good spirits this year , finishing fourth to Night Clubbing on his reappearance at Newbury and then chasing home the well handicapped Azhar at Doncaster . |
| 11 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
| 12 | The walk 's last leg follows the embankment of the world 's first electric road-railway , which used to take Victorian tourists from Portrush to the Giant 's Causeway but now covers only the easy descent into Portballintrae . |
| 13 | Both in terms of er bringing forward more detailed criteria based policies but also determining specifically the areas to which the policy would apply . |
| 14 | I decided to specialise in patio pot plants but nothing thrived , and I 've just discovered that woodlice have invaded the pots and even eaten away the linings of wall baskets . |
| 15 | Carefully locate all the window holes and neatly cut away the icing over them , smoothing over the joins . |
| 16 | A proposal that public money should be spent on a measure which is likely to aggravate this position ( the low birth rate ) by making contraception universally available on request and thereby to affect adversely the continuity of the state , is one which we feel we can not endorse . |
| 17 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |
| 18 | In this case a bass line must be chosen which avoids the forming of an excess of conventional triads and yet gives just the right harmonic equilibrium : ( In the above example , so as to follow the ‘ step-by-step ’ method of our exposition , we have deliberately avoided any alteration to the tenor part , and confined our changes to the bass only . |
| 19 | Who else but Runcorn could give an impromptu hour-long lecture on any geophysical topic and probably have just the right slides in his pocket to support it ? |
| 20 | In the long run , investment will also affect the supply side of the economy , raising its productive potential and thereby pushing outwards the production frontier . |
| 21 | Because of the romantic roles that Yuri dances , however , it was very important not to alter his image too much , maintaining length but subtly improving both the shape and texture of his hair . |
| 22 | For all its talk of fostering artistic freedom and widening participation in the arts , Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture frowns upon middle-brow bourgeois culture and exclusively cultivates either the avant-garde or pop . |
| 23 | She carefully digested the headlines and then read only the news that interested her . |
| 24 | This brings the aircraft back into balance and instantly increases both the capacity and length of the cargo floor , or cabin if seats are to be installed . |
| 25 | As the splenic flexure is an anatomical region easily reached and identified by an experienced endoscopist , we found easy access to this region and then advanced either the endoscope or the guidewire into the transverse colon . |
| 26 | She sat with Nellie and Brigid Drennan , Tommy 's wife , at the corner table and never said much the whole night . |