Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 2 | This may be achieved where cobbling makes drivers aware of the presence of pedestrians , where a tree breaks up the straight line of the centre of the road or where narrowings make drivers proceed especially slowly and carefully . |
| 3 | She describes in precise detail the deserted country road in Mayobridge , County Down , where a mine blew up the Land-Rover he was travelling in . |
| 4 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 5 | Consider using an object such as a bag or briefcase or a chair to fend off the attacker ( bear in mind the potential difference between fending off and striking with a weapon ) . |
| 6 | It was decided to build a huge central market , the construction of which was entrusted to Baltard , a man who was as much an engineer as an architect , on a site which had existed since the reign of Napoleon I. Succeeding regimes had neither had the will nor the drive to carry out the project as originally planned , but the Emperor was determined that this new market should be one of the earliest major building projects of his reign . |
| 7 | I had neither the patience nor the German to point out the contradiction in his argument . |
| 8 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 9 | It invited the institutions of the European Community to employ all means to ensure that the act setting up the European anti-drug monitoring body could be adopted before June 30 , 1992 . |
| 10 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 11 | The fact that the white continued up the front of the neck identified them as king cormorants . |
| 12 | The speed that the commentary scrolls up the screen can be controlled from the keyboard on some computers . |
| 13 | Here we meet a central theme : ca n't we demand that the doctor set out the principles on which he acts for all to see ? |
| 14 | Often the most one can learn from them is that the student stuck out the course and actually learned enough to pass the examination , retaining what he learned long enough to get it down on paper . |
| 15 | Accepting then that the material making up the mantle can behave as a viscous liquid , this raises an interesting possibility . |
| 16 | We do not have to ‘ choose ’ whether we breathe or whether our heart beats , for instance ; it is better that the body carries on the process without interference . |
| 17 | All these obligations are designed to ensure that the tenant keeps up the real value of the scheme and that the landlord 's income remains as high as possible . |
| 18 | Although the conference brought about the first international agreement on a multilateral adjustment in exchange rates , it did not prevent the collapse of the adjustable peg system . |
| 19 | Chilling , not overheating , has become the danger , so the male opens up the mound during the day to make the most of the waning sun , and covers it over again at night to retain what warmth it has . |
| 20 | Guidance should be given as appropriate to ensure that a student carries out the investigation involving mathematical techniques or skills acquired within the module . |
| 21 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 22 | It took me more than an hour to give out the medicines . ’ |
| 23 | The outer form and the behaviour of the creature are thus always at one — man does not try to flap his arms and fly , any more than an insect seeks out the sex pheromones of another species as if they were its own . |
| 24 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 25 | If the child writes out the word somewhere else ( not , preferably , in the same book he does his writing in ) say , in his word book , he can use felt-tips to colour the parts of the word which caused him difficulty . |
| 26 | If the person picks up the keys , then he or she can become the next sleeping beauty . |
| 27 | And if the generator gives up the ghost in the night you 've got a torch on the table , and a candle . |
| 28 | ‘ There will certainly be a strike across the republic if the military takes over the railway , ’ said the movement 's spokesman , Nazim Ragimov . |
| 29 | Anyone with chest pains should also go to the doctor , especially if the pain goes down the arm . |
| 30 | If we 're talking about using this sy er type of system for running mission critical systems where if the database goes down the business stops running and starts losing money , then we need to be able to run twenty four hours a day seven days a week . |