Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 All it was first of all was a little graze on top of the skin .
2 Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting .
3 The offer 's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form .
4 Secondly , private garages only count as part of the limit on house extensions if they are within 5 metres of the house , otherwise they are treated in the same way as other outbuildings .
5 In contrast , inequalities of social status only exist by virtue of the fact that status differences are constructed and recognised by members of social groups .
6 Remember that an overdeveloped soleus will give the appearance of a ‘ thick ’ ankle , so aim for balance between the two rather than just increased size .
7 Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day .
8 In any event , they only relate to non-renewal of the contract when it runs out .
9 In any event , they only relate to non-renewal of the contract when it runs out .
10 These ‘ options ’ only work on behalf of the manager .
11 The slugs thus grow in length at the expense of the non-turbulent region .
12 How could she remain here , see him again , and not die of shame at the memory ?
13 not not look at go for the customers and the deals I think and all that the backup .
14 ‘ We no longer ride in procession through the City — and of late , our servants , some of whom have served us since infancy , have all but one been replaced with surly rascals of another 's choosing . ’
15 Many movements ( especially first movements ) begin with very promising melodies ( e.g. the ‘ Pastoral ’ , the ‘ Eroica ’ , etc. ) which soon disappear like smoke in the wind , to be taken up again and worked over later on but which none the less fail to become complete .
16 Certainly with regard to the accusations of the officers , he should have told the jury that such accusations , particularly those not supported by evidence , did not amount to evidence in the case and that where a defendant declined to reply the net result of the questions and answers was nil .
17 But this does not amount to dependence on the political wishes of governments or ministers as such .
18 As between co-owners there is unity of possession , each is entitled to possession and use of the chattel , and the mere enjoyment in one way or another by one co-owner can not amount to conversion against the other .
19 Millions already rely on care in the community .
20 IAN WRIGHT and Alan Shearer tonight go in search of the goals to put the smile back on the face of English football … and keep their fledgling partnership together .
21 And sometimes when you 've had a late night with the baby and you come in and think , Oh , I 've got to work , and they say if you 're tired just go to sleep on the couch .
22 Any mail messages which already exist in LIFESPAN for the specified user are formatted into a * .
23 In other words Psalm 104:30 may speak of the energising rather than the creative work of the Spirit , and thus fall into line with the rest of the Old Testament teaching on ruach as ‘ breath ’ .
24 He has also continued to write , producing one work of fiction , Haroun and the Sea of Stories , and a collection of essays and other pieces , Imaginary Homelands , which Michael Foot argued are fit to stand alongside some of the very best work in defence of the artist 's right to free expression .
25 In due course they will arrive in Safra to be offloaded over a beach and thence travel by road into the theatre of operations .
26 Just to complete the picture on the districts around York , erm and in answer to the issue raised by er Miss Whitaker , I think the villages in erm the Harrogate sector of Greater York are all far too small to erm act as a nucleus for the size of development we 're talking about here , er the largest of them , Upper Poppleton , probably has about seven hundred to eight hundred houses , and that I think would be swamped and lose its character and also possibly suffer from coalescence with the nearby York urban area , if er large amounts of additional development were tacked onto it .
27 They still often continue , in the capacity of Custos Rotulorum , to be the senior magistrate in the county and usually sit as chairman of the committee which recommends the names of new justices of the peace to the Lord Chancellor , a partial explanation for the dull , middle-class nature of the magistracy .
28 New competences may be acquired , others may become redundant as the contexts calling them forth change in relation to the situation of the social actor .
29 The implications of this for the relation between how and the infinitive are exactly the same as with need and dare : if the means of realizing the infinitive 's event are not felt to exist , then there is felt to be nothing real occupying the before-position which real means always occupy with respect to the end pursued , and therefore no to preceding the infinitive .
30 In Germany , ministers still appear to side with the federalists .
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