Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he noticed an open gate and beyond it a side door which he approached ; here he was told that his tickets were only good for the front door while the side doors were reserved for members . |
| 2 | I find it easier to use the front ( pointed ) end of the iron for the front panel and the heel of the iron for the back . |
| 3 | But not to worry … there 's plenty survived the worst of the weather … and there 's much to admire for the committed gardener and the casual observer |
| 4 | There would be no need for the round head and the round socket . |
| 5 | For the pure solvent and the entropy . |
| 6 | For the middle class and the rich it was increasingly tourism , essentially the product of the railway , the steamship and ( in so far as that invention of our period , the picture postcard , is still an essential part of it ) of the new scale and speed of postal communications . |
| 7 | He says the world must examine the future for the Middle East when the Gulf crisis is over . |
| 8 | Over-borrowing should have been shunned , for the elementary reason that a decline in over-geared profitability can destroy the net worth of shareholders . |
| 9 | A high social price was paid in a lower standard of living for the industrial worker and the economic and social power of the Junker class . |
| 10 | It is for the HVS–E1 climber that the crag has most to offer though , and a short tour along the edge taking in the following climbs will not disappoint . |
| 11 | GERMANY 'S ruling and opposition parties , reeling from the largest electoral success for the far Right since the Second World War , called yesterday for urgent joint talks to prevent further haemorrhaging of their support . |
| 12 | Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ . |
| 13 | The same structure will be used for the 1992 conference but the conference group will incorporate the suggestions made in Alison Rose 's evaluation paper into the planning process . |
| 14 | The declaration envisaged regular ministerial meetings and the conversion of former communist defence industries to civilian production , but stopped short of advocating full membership of NATO for the Soviet Union and the former communist regimes of eastern Europe . |
| 15 | was there for the right moment and the right man . |
| 16 | Five target fish were nominated for the second day as the anglers struggled to overcome persistent torrential rain and buffeting winds . |
| 17 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
| 18 | UNEMPLOYMENT is poised to top three million for the second time because the quality of jobs created in the late 1980s was poor , according to a report by the Employment Policy Institute . |
| 19 | Latham and Andrew Jones put on 127 for the second wicket before the opener was run out when his partner failed to respond to a call for a run . |
| 20 | Brodkey 's prose , stately , handsome , so intensely , so painstakingly devised , is the perfect concomitant of those advertisements for the classic suit or the traditional chair which enhance the magazine 's increasingly implausible air of quilted , buttonbacked ease . |
| 21 | This strange logic leaves little room for the subjective assessment that the ASB says will be necessary to determine whether derecognition is appropriate . |
| 22 | In this way , the Association provides a field force of welfare workers for the Benevolent Fund and the two complementary organisations work closely together . |
| 23 | He has affectionate links with the county and indeed played for the 2nd XI and a local club after being brought over originally by Viv Richards , a fellow Antiguan . |
| 24 | The road-builders ' diet , mainly cheese and biscuits , was monotonous , but for the average soldier if the beer supply was adequate everything was all right and Wade met the problem of a lack of local supplies in a typically sensible way , as he reported to London in 1733 |
| 25 | Mrs Shepherd sees no incompatibility in her dual role as Minister for Agriculture and Food and that it was ‘ nonsense ’ for anyone to state that it was inappropriate to be responsible both for the agricultural industry and the quality and safety of food . |
| 26 | It is not by accident that the countries within the ERM — viz Spain and Ireland — and countries shadowing the system — such as Sweden and Norway — believe that the price of higher than warranted interest rates , from their domestic point of view , is nevertheless worth paying , in return for the longer-term stability that the ERM will provide . |
| 27 | For many years he was a member of the president 's committee , and was an examiner for the triple qualification and the fellowship . |
| 28 | That too is a problem , but I must say that we were much better prepared for the Inter-Continental Cup than a couple of other tournaments — that only makes our failure to qualify more disappointing . |
| 29 | In general , however , his contribution to the cinema has been disappointing compared with his work for the legitimate theatre and the opera house . |
| 30 | said the performance of the Courtaulds staff was outstanding and , had the emergency been real , there would have been no consequences for the general public or the environment . |