Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Lilian sent me accounts of local political meetings cut out from the Gazette , and her own analyses of the Labour Government 's foreign policy . |
| 2 | Coloured lights strung between low pylons bounce about amongst the palm trees . |
| 3 | She saw his hands relax , and the broad shoulders lean back in the chair . |
| 4 | Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point . |
| 5 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 6 | There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens . |
| 7 | Three backlist titles tie in with the television and are reissued in April . |
| 8 | When proper gentlemen start in with the fists there 's usually a woman at the bottom of it . |
| 9 | And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders . |
| 10 | I watched his shaking shoulders go out of the gate and disappear round the corner . |
| 11 | The study , ‘ Made in Britain : the true state of British manufacturing industry ’ , is a joint project by IBM Consulting Group and London Business School to test whether British manufacturers measure up to the best in the world . |
| 12 | The explosion lifted the ship a few feet clear out of the water , smashing the superstructure against the low tunnel roof even as the hull burst open with a blaze of fire . |
| 13 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 14 | Ms Johnston uses the world war as a springboard into other conflicts ; that between England and Ireland ; between Ireland north and south , and even within the south itself , as the English officers look down on the Irish men , and the northern Irish sergeant barely conceals his contempt for the southern Catholics in his ranks . |
| 15 | Some families split up with the stress of this situation . |
| 16 | For example , if your love life is thriving you can manage to maintain your diet , but as soon as there is an upset , or things are not going to smoothly , then your dietary resolutions go out of the window ? |
| 17 | In conclusion , tutors are again reminded of their great responsibilities for achieving the high aims set out in the first paragraph . |
| 18 | Connelly 's haunting , purposeful vocals seep out of the cut at strange angles , spoken rather than sung , whilst the melody is bolstered by seductive female whispers that gently flit past , all knotted together over a boomy bass laden communication . |
| 19 | These cultures are viewed as remote and distant , and few teachers go out into the community to learn or take part in community activities … |
| 20 | old friends walk up through the wild streets |
| 21 | There is , in a sense , an ideology of scepticism within clearly defined boundaries and as old men die out of the system and younger ones join it the tradition becomes cumulative and socially-constructed rather than just an individual matter . |
| 22 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 23 | Ponds and lakes , too , benefit from their surroundings , as leaves and insects perish within them , and some nutrients run in from the surrounding land . |
| 24 | Although these broader issues spill over into the whole question of extending the notion of the sociolinguistic variable into the domain of syntactic analysis , they are relevant to data collection because they often entail difficulties in obtaining sufficient quantities of a specific type of data . |
| 25 | Trains on different services pull in to the same platform , and turnouts are installed to enable them to move in and out and pass one another . |
| 26 | Just as words represent concrete things in the world and the relationship between words in an utterance refers to a relationship between concrete things , so cultural artefacts refer back to the history of culture . |
| 27 | Steep paths lead down through the landscaped gardens and over a foot-bridge to the main building directly across the road . |
| 28 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 29 | In the Alton and Bordon area , there is ‘ a constant trickle of demand , mainly for short-term fostering , ’ says the placement worker , who is convinced that , as the social services go out into the community and find out what is needed , ‘ the demand for short-term fostering will grow . ’ |
| 30 | Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II . |