Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the dealing firms has a different amount of stock but you can work out who has what by how keenly the prices compare with the best bid , best offer . |
| 2 | I kept piling in crosses and luckily the lads got on the end of them . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually the brats arrived at the plasteel wall and burned entry through the rusted seal into a sultry , branching passageway . |
| 4 | Eventually the police got into the house and a man was arrested . |
| 5 | From then on the figures used in the White Paper to set targets for future spending were set in ‘ cash terms ’ . |
| 6 | The LSE 's walls were plastered with slogans — a favourite being ‘ Beware the Pedagogic Gerontocracy ’ — and suddenly the Situationists moved from the world of small magazines , happenings , and Alex Trocchi to hand out their leaflets , and flypost their documents on ‘ Ten Days that Shook the University ’ . |
| 7 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 8 | Apparently the difficulties arose from the fact that the Army had not informed the West German government about its recruitment of agents . |
| 9 | Every long service worker employed at the plant and within the division knew that union restrictive practices had lowered productivity to below the levels achieved on the continent . |
| 10 | Poland has cut its use of ozone depleting substances to below the levels demanded by the international community in the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs 35/36 ; 59/60 ] . |
| 11 | The real reason is that competition between the various issuers has forced down the charges levied on the retailers — once as high as 3 to 5 per cent , down to an average of 2.2 per cent in 1988 and now 1.7 per cent and falling . |
| 12 | First : take down the barriers standing in the way of success . |
| 13 | He glanced down the codings listed on the last of the semi-opaque sheets and imprinted his authorisation . |
| 14 | So the forces acting on the ERM are much stronger today than ever before . |
| 15 | So the players belong to the same club for the duration . |
| 16 | So the ceilings painted in the house of Cheron , the tapestries and carpets for which it is justly famed — reviewed in articles by Wendy Hefford and Ian Bennett and Frances Michael , are supplemented by pictures acquired for Bloomsbury . |
| 17 | When the stress at the ends or edges of the joint reaches the strength of dry casein therefore , cracks appear at the edges of the joint which immediately produce their own private local concentrations of stress , and so the cracks run through the middle of the joint , much as they would in glass . |
| 18 | So the pictures went to the nation after all . |
| 19 | AS SUMMER comes in and the demand for ice cream increases so the opportunities arise for the vendors to overcharge , especially when parents are treating their children . |
| 20 | Patching the cracks and filling in the potholes falls to the County Council everywhere except trunk roads and motorways . |
| 21 | Quality Software Products Holdings Plc , Gateshead has now filled in the numbers hidden by the blobs in its pathfinder prospectus ( CI No 2,132 ) , pricing the 2.85m shares it is placing , 1.46m of them new , at 380 pence a share , valuing Quality , which did £1.2m net on £13.1m sales in 1992 , at £29.6m and raising about £5m of new money , net of expenses , for the company . |
| 22 | Even the few examples we have seen illustrate how species with biparental care tend to be monogamous , species in which only the female looks after the young tend to be polygynous , and species in which only the males care for the young tend to be polyandrous . |
| 23 | That measure does not show the total crime , only the incidents reported to the police . |
| 24 | Although , in principle , the communities of interest are allowed to raise in ‘ contributions ’ only the amounts agreed by the delegates from their member ‘ organizations or associated labour ’ , in practice , such organizations have little option but to agree with proposals presented to them by the community managers . |
| 25 | In Chic Fashions v. Jones ( C.A. , 1968 ) Lord Denning said that the police could seize , not only the items specified in the warrant , but also anything which they reasonably believed was that item , anything which would lead to the identification of the item , any other goods stolen from the victim of the offence being investigated and anything else stolen by the suspect . |
| 26 | This gave us two kinds of ‘ correct ’ lattice : ( i ) a single path lattice containing only the words intended by the speaker and ( ii ) a lattice containing all the homophones and homophonic phrases that were valid under the fine-class description . |
| 27 | Treaty ( Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) ) only the requirements relating to the nationality of the natural or legal persons in question are at issue . |
| 28 | They found that cockroaches infected with Herpomyces and kept in close confinement inoculated one another with spores over the entire surface of their bodies , but only the spores adhering to the upper three-fourths of the antennae were able to germinate and grow . |
| 29 | The first neolithic settlers on the site of Knossos probably lived in wooden huts , of which only the post-holes survive in the archaeological record . |
| 30 | Year II sees the technology applied to a range of topics such as information management and human computer interface , with students drawing together the skills acquired on the course by undertaking an individual project in an area of particular interest . |