Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fertilized egg is a narrow bottleneck which , during embryonic development , widens out into the trillions of cells of an adult elephant . |
| 2 | Erm but it has n't to the best of my knowledge it has not resulted in a rash of of developments and motorway intersections . |
| 3 | Andrew Steel , Managing Director , looks ahead to the 1990's as a new era where the company can benefit greatly from these latest developments . |
| 4 | In rats the number of cells increases rapidly in the four to six days before birth , and the proliferative compartment — the proportion of β cells able to replicate — is thought to fall from 10% during fetal life to 3% in young adulthood . |
| 5 | This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment . |
| 6 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 7 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 8 | Somewhat surprisingly , given the avowed centrality of curriculum development in the project , " linking the centre closely to the curriculum of the school " appears only as the last in a long list of implementation steps . |
| 9 | Historically , there was nothing to match them , for cork expands snugly into the quirkiest of hand-blown bottle necks . |
| 10 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 11 | If history is any guide , the Bank of England could force overnight money rates up into the 20 to 30 per cent range and ram home the message with aggressive buying of pounds . |
| 12 | That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security . |
| 13 | They act as though no sexy young woman has ever trod those cobbled streets before , although the nubile daughter of the drunken town bully ( Peter Vaughan ) walks around in the mini-est of mini-skirts especially catching the eye of the long-haired village idiot ( David Warner ) , who has already molested young girls . |
| 14 | Lacking the elaborate Go-motion system of rods and computer control that Tippett had devised at ILM for the dragon in Dragonslayer ( 1981 ) , intended to create a slight blur as each single-frame shot was made ( since in real motion the subject moves fractionally in the one-fiftieth of a second for which one frame is exposed ) , they simply shook the puppet a bit each time . |
| 15 | His sister Mary helps run one of his hotels in Bundoran , the Great Northern , while daughter Catherine does likewise at The Southern in Sligo . |
| 16 | Although the Centre welcomes seniors , the emphasis remains firmly with the 550 plus juniors who attended the club regularly . |
| 17 | The second shape comes out of the first like the extension of an igloo . |
| 18 | That runs out on the sixteen of January , that 's no good . |
| 19 | The action begins tomorrow with the first of two qualifying rounds , and as usual , the field is studded with quality . |