Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 2 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 3 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 4 | He could see that the singer was n't especially old or badly dressed under the coat . |
| 5 | The Director General of the Ministry of Culture , Francesco Sisinni has made it clear that once restored in the Florence Istituto Centrale del Restauro the bronzes will return to Brindisi . |
| 6 | Are the membership aware of this and actively committed to the goals of the alliance ? |
| 7 | The town also became the home of Scotland 's first university , founded in 1410 and formally recognized by the Pope at Avignon three years later . |
| 8 | Apparently warming hugs can be most ungiving and greedily grasping for the self . |
| 9 | In years past this contest was unregulated and often resulted in the destruction of large parts of Altdorf and widespread carnage amongst the civilian population . |
| 10 | Preparations were incubated with the primary antibody for 60 minutes , rinsed in Tris buffered saline and then incubated with the secondary antibody ( mouse anti-rabbit , diluted in Tris buffered saline/normal human serum ) for 30 minutes . |
| 11 | As the government itself was to admit in its response to the resultant Griffiths Report on Community Care , the ‘ rapid growth of residential and nursing home care ’ had been ‘ unplanned and largely based on the availability of social security benefits ’ . |
| 12 | As an architect he is one of the most interesting and least known of the Victorian Gothic Revivalists . ’ |
| 13 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 14 | This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg . |
| 15 | Politically , between-ness ‘ help[s] to abolish the frontiers of misunderstanding with frequent changes of partners loyalties convictions , free and easily stepping over the old boundaries ’ ( 43/437 ) . |
| 16 | Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole . |
| 17 | As in a fairy-story , when the great man entered the room where the models were displayed , his eyes fell immediately on the glittering and finely crafted work of the youngest and least known of the competitors . |
| 18 | In our survey of the financial arrangements of NEP as they applied to the Smolensk guberniia , it was noted how they were unstable and poorly defined from the outset , leading to economic and social tensions at the lower levels . |
| 19 | Built in the hybrid style which has been dubbed ‘ artisan mannerism ’ , the house is exuberantly detailed and entirely lacking in the Italianate sophistication of the court style of Inigo Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | He was baptised by John Kingdon in the chapel 's own ‘ baptistry ’ on Friday 5 May 1780 and officially received into the church two days later . |
| 21 | The London Deaf Video Project ( LDVP ) , established in 1985 and initially funded by the former Greater London Council , exists to provide the deaf community with information through video tapes in BSL Subjects treated so far include AIDS , welfare benefits , the dangers of smoking solicitors and their services , and the need for retirement . |
| 22 | The surrounding volcanic cones are gently sloping with few gullies to the south , but increasingly steep and heavily gullied towards the north . |
| 23 | Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him . |
| 24 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 25 | Ian Black in Tel Aviv asks whether Israel , willing but hardly prepared for the influx , can cope . |
| 26 | She personally recruited university-trained teachers , who were prepared not only to provide their services free but also to participate in the social life of the college . |
| 27 | Visibility from the left-hand seat is above average for an American aircraft ; you can see all around , except for about 30° in the rear , and visibility upwards is acceptable but slightly degraded by the roof which wraps around to the sides of the cabin . |
| 28 | Creggan was not afraid but instead filled with the feeling that there was strength in the Man that was on his side ; and anger too ; and that something was happening , something that concerned Minch . |
| 29 | The British Army soldiers had been , for a considerable period of time , mainly clad in a red tunic for battle , reputably so that any sign of blood was not easily discerned , but Baden-Powell realised that , with the advance of fire arms , the red tunic provided a more prominent target than the rather drab mixture of green and brown as normally worn by the Boers . |
| 30 | Indeed , I consider it more opportune than ever to extend to the entire ecclesiastical community an initiative already observed in some countries and regions that has yielded truly valuable pastoral results . |