Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where WinEdit stands out from the rest is for programmers who use Microsoft C and SDK . |
| 2 | Hodder & Stanchion carries on under the Attender brothers , Michel and Phalli . |
| 3 | Seeing Saad laid out on the floor , dumb and silent . |
| 4 | In the council meeting , Kleinwort Benson and UBS Phillips & Drew objected strongly to the two proposals . |
| 5 | Indeed , his capital city of Aachen ( Aix la Chapelle ) was partly chosen because of its hot springs , where Charles swam daily in the great bath . |
| 6 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 7 | She loved the hot stews that Minton produced out of the oven when they returned from the pub . |
| 8 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
| 9 | I want to begin by going back to an argument that Aristotle put forward in the Ethics , since I think that the point at which his argument breaks down can illuminate the nature of the problem some feminist thinking has faced . |
| 10 | ONCE Czechoslovakia settles down from the current euphoria of people 's power , its new leadership will have to take some hard decisions on how to overcome its economic difficulties . |
| 11 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Although Pakistan inched forward in the eight overs following the welcome tea-break , England were pulling the strings . |
| 13 | So it was not until 30 August that Brusilov struck hard at the Austrian right , causing it to collapse and its formations to retreat westward in panic and confusion . |
| 14 | On CEEFAX and TELETEXT it implied that Cuntona got off with the rap . |
| 15 | They had a report that Gilbey hurried off to the Lotus HQ , laughing as Styczynski shouted : ‘ Are you going to sort out this mess , mate ? ’ |
| 16 | Although Liphook strove hard for the equaliser , they were unable to take advantage of the many opportunities created . |
| 17 | They noted too that Scotland contributed fully to the costs of all network programmes while seeing only 94 per cent of them , and paid a full share for network radio despite patchy reception in some areas . |
| 18 | Schwer saw his unbeaten record slip away on cuts , although Burke fought splendidly on the way to an upset victory . |
| 19 | There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet . |
| 20 | The exit to the roof was on the other side of floor 5 so Ralph went back through the door into the large room . |
| 21 | In 1927 , the year that Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic , Cooks chartered a plane to take fans from New York to Chicago to attend the Tunney-Dempsey boxing match . |
| 22 | It was as they approached the gates that Joe pointed away to the left and towards the hills where a man was walking and he cried excitedly , ‘ There 's Mick ! ’ |
| 23 | It was not until seven o'clock in the morning that Gabriel climbed down from the last rick , exhausted and wet to the skin . |
| 24 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 25 | Although Franco seemed well on the way to having Hedilla in his pocket in late October , Falangist support for merging with the Traditionalists was not yet guaranteed . |
| 26 | Suffice it is to say that Woferl jumped up on the Empress 's lap , put his arms round her neck and kissed her heartily . |
| 27 | It was the next day that Lewis turned up at the door of the workshop his tools in a bag and his leather apron over his arm . |
| 28 | ‘ Hong Kong People Rule Hong Kong ’ : the slogan propagated by China during the 1982-84 sovereignty negotiations , to encourage popular local support for its demand that Britain withdraw completely from the administration of Hong Kong on 30 June 1997 . |
| 29 | The miracle is that Britain held on to the bloody Empire for so long . |
| 30 | She said the words with such bitterness that Tempy glanced inquisitively from the window . |