Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shop was started by the Neal brothers back in the 1870s . |
| 2 | Paint black and silver squares on to the large strip of white fondant surrounding the neck of the rocket to give a chequered design . |
| 3 | Mayne 's plan was to take his fighting patrols out into the Great Sand Sea and establish a forward base , from which they could sally out and harass the enemy . |
| 4 | The alley 's dead end glowed red in the wash of its brake lights , long shadows being thrown by the garbage hoppers over on the far side , and the sound of the cab 's turning engine had a hard edge in the chill night air . |
| 5 | Paint silver stars on to the dark blue board . |
| 6 | Using a very fine brush or tip of a cocktail stick , paint silver stars on to the blue background . |
| 7 | Garden criminals range from gnome-snaffling pranksters to professionals who swoop on country houses at night armed with a crane and a lorry , ready to snatch everything from £20,000 orchids down to the last £700 Koi carp in the pond . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Mr Paddy Ashdown , asked her to reconsider the ‘ shameful example ’ set by her Government 's actions not only in sending the riot police in at the dead of night but in the blanket of secrecy surrounding the appeals tribunals which decided who were refugees . |
| 9 | A little later , the true wing tracheae develop as tubular outgrowths of the large tracheae , and extend into the vein cavities along with the larval tracheoles , which they supplant . |
| 10 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 11 | And what did they say , I can tell you what they said , because I happen to have a petition here , signed by a hundred and four county council tenants out of the hundred and six that we have . |
| 12 | Thus , while the Giorgio show bristled with understated elegance this spring , the Emporio extravaganza was a riot of wild colour and audacious shapes , featuring eye-popping tartans and sizzling satin trenchcoats along with the sludgy , tweedy garments which constitute the cut-price clothes of more typical Armani fashion |
| 13 | Simply press the reset button twice and the machine boots up into the diagnostic routine . |
| 14 | Europe wants shops to give information on the efficiency of all white goods , televisions and hi-fis , computers , ovens , lights and other household appliances down to the smallest toaster . |
| 15 | There were two or three granite steps up to the front door which had a grubby ‘ Closed ’ notice hung behind its glass panel ; no bell , and no other door . |
| 16 | This sometimes happens when managers must prepare for press conferences and they develop a superb presentation only to drop through the floor when an awkward press vulture homes in on the one weak link in the chain of argument . |
| 17 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 18 | There 's gon na be mass redundancies within the organization , mass redundances , from the shop stewards through to the general sect . |
| 19 | The government is now faced with the realisation that treatment alone will not get lead levels down to the 50 ug/litre required by the Directive . |
| 20 | Cancellation charges up to the full amount payable . |
| 21 | A blur of lights as a quick thinking cameraman locks on to the first Patriot missile fired in war . |
| 22 | But eventually the whole of your body lands up at the central point — so everything in the end gets crushed . ’ |
| 23 | Virtually every paper responded , from the main provincial dailies and evening papers down to the smallest local weekly , each with a feature article on a lost house in their area . |
| 24 | On the publishing side , which as usual outnumbered the booksellers by a good measure , there was a rash of thrusting marketing types along with the usual grey suits and sales people , so one could say that the publishers had got it more or less right . |
| 25 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 26 | Occasionally , character steps out of the angular interlocking patterns to hold a bowl or pour from a jug . |
| 27 | The assessment indicators are , quite simply , what will help the National Training Task Force ( NTTF ) to decide whether the Employment Service measures up to the national Standard and can be recognised as an Investor in People . |
| 28 | To his right ran the main road from the Cotswold hills down into the sleepy little market town of Lulling , which Thrush Green adjoined . |
| 29 | As the water piles up in the western Pacific , it then becomes both warmer and more dilute . |
| 30 | AS EACH day ticks off before the crucial announcement on Friday next week from Eurotunnel , the share price falls . |