Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tenant 's reimbursement is for the landlord 's grant of a new right , ie one which was not in the original lease , arguably the landlord makes a standard-rated supply of services , unless the right is an exempt ( or possibly zero-rated ) interest in land . |
| 2 | Additionally the seizure had a psychological importance , since it offered opportunities for gain to many of Edward 's subjects who subsequently acquired a vested interest in the estates and therefore in prolonging the war or , at least , concluding it in triumph . |
| 3 | There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format . |
| 4 | Luckily the lad spoke a little English , telling Harry to cycle on and he would overtake for Harry to follow at a distance . |
| 5 | Eventually the theory becomes a creaking and ugly edifice . |
| 6 | Doris Lessing 's later transition into science fiction writing indicates another complete alternative to realistic conventions , fantasy offering a strategy for escaping altogether the obligation to express a male-dominated world . |
| 7 | Equally importantly the concept includes the physical integration of a new piece of equipment into a production process and its subsequent refinement and modification at the hands of the technically skilled workforce . |
| 8 | Later on the Empress installed a small private oratory in her apartments where a daily Mass was said by her own private chaplain . |
| 9 | Rather the court gave an authoritative ruling on how the statutory definition applies in the case of a motor vehicle . |
| 10 | Simon was not trying to buy the Holy Spirit but rather the ability to impart the Holy Spirit . |
| 11 | The greatest obstacle to the acceptance of the drift hypothesis was not so much the nature of this supporting evidence ( although alternative explanations were readily proffered ) but rather the failure to find a convincing mechanism by which it could occur . |
| 12 | Although government carries the ultimate responsibility , legal liability is currently vested in AEA and furthermore the work provides a significant part of AEA 's business turnover . |
| 13 | Suddenly the head gave a brisk nod . |
| 14 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 15 | In July 1870 the war began , and suddenly the Channel became a first line of defence rather than an obstacle to trade . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) Outline the services and expertise needed by each market ( eg the ability to take a high volume of claims from a bulk work provider , familiarity with medical practice , specialist knowledge of health and safety regulations ) . |
| 17 | Apparently the world has a notional pool of capital . |
| 18 | No bookseller can expect to supply the bulk of a library 's orders from stock , and basically the librarian requires a quick , efficient service for material which the bookseller must obtain from the publisher . |
| 19 | We have already seen how naturally the need to fit a certain number of half wavelengths into an interval leads to discreteness and it is some way of introducing a radical discreteness into mechanics which we are looking for . |
| 20 | Work up and down the head covering the entire area . |
| 21 | I suspect that , when people up and down the country realise the sheer horror of what is being proposed , they will recoil from such an open-ended commitment for massive local government spending . |
| 22 | I want listeners up and down the country to hear the best of our local radio and regional journalism . |
| 23 | After a few reasonable take-offs and landings , said those dreaded words feared by all trainee pilots , ‘ Do you think you can manage on your own for one circuit ? ’ , and promptly got out of the plane , leaving me to do the usual pre take-off checks , taxi to the beginning of the runway and nervously accelerate down the runway to do a fair take-off . |
| 24 | If you are driving alone in a car , do not stop to pick up hitch-hikers , always lock all your doors if you are sitting in a parked car and do not roll down the window to give a suspicious looking stranger directions . |
| 25 | Some passers-by did not wait that long , leaping off buses and scrambling down the embankment to drag the injured out . |
| 26 | Dirt and trees slipped down the cliff face the far side of the river , and all day long our remote valley echoed with the crunch and grind of bulldozers and their cautionary whistles , as they backed up to take another bite out of the shale piled up along the edge of the road . |
| 27 | The dark-haired beauty will walk down the aisle wearing a lavish £20,000 traditional silk wedding dress at a Catholic Church in Santa Monica near Los Angeles . |
| 28 | And then there 's one about the erm a protestant pastor blamed the seventeen year old death , that fellow that , that young man in the video shop that was erm shot down the father blamed the British government . |
| 29 | Chola and Mina set out for the fields to continue the millet harvest , and Kalchu fetched the flat wooden spade and began beating down the mud to repair the leaking roof . |
| 30 | However , lower down the balance lurks a black hole : ‘ errors and omissions ’ reflect an unrecorded capital outflow of $1.7 billion . |