Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There is a complete lack of understanding , and that goes right the way through the Health Service …
2 Laverne points down the bank on the other side of the road .
3 This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure .
4 This represents perhaps an indication of the forced nature of the experience — forced by the combination of the sensation of immobility of REM sleep in association with the rich visual experience offered by the overactive hindbrain .
5 Returning to the kitchen , Robyn turns down the thermostat of the central heating and checks that the back door of the house is locked and bolted .
6 But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales .
7 Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else .
8 If the red ball goes down the edge of the white ball ?
9 On the other hand , once estimated , the known user total still represents only a proportion of the total user population and , thus , a multiplier factor is needed , that is to say , a ratio of unknown to known heroin use , in order to determine the size of the total heroin user population ( Hartnoll et al.
10 Wilson points out that the designer side represents only a fraction of the fashion industry 's £6.5 billion turnover .
11 However it seems that the slowest time constant represents only a subset of the GC sites since we observe dissociation from some GC sites at rates closer to the faster species .
12 However , revolutionary technological innovation represents only the tip of the iceberg .
13 This figure represents only the tip of the iceberg , since as many as 90% of cases go unreported , according to Dr Richard Gilbert , the Director of the Food Hygiene Laboratory .
14 When this is the case , a trap is to mistake such an event for the completion of the entire change effort ; instead , it represents only the beginning of the change-management process .
15 Thus this paper supplies only a part of the substantiation which the foregoing analysis requires .
16 The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) .
17 The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other .
18 If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] .
19 If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ?
20 In order to be elected , a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast .
21 To achieve this they may have to adopt conservative technology — that is , technology that has only a fraction of the communications power of optical fibres — and to pander to the needs of a mass audience .
22 The famous " Big Mac " has only a fraction of the vitamin B content it should have .
23 Power trickles down the edifice with the effect that those who actually deliver the service , teachers and lecturers , are the least powerful in terms of determining what the service is about , how it performs , how it should develop .
24 The reporting system covers only a proportion of the chemicals emitted and also exempts many types of plants , including public utilities .
25 Play them in order and make sure that your thumb , which holds down the root of the G chords , also deadens the A string …
26 With very good will the adviser writes down the address of the local family counselling services .
27 On paper , L* looks just the ticket for the SSC — an ambitious experiment with a good pedigree , run by a famous physicist with an international set of collaborators .
28 His gift of salvation is for the whole world , it 's available , God willeth not the death of the sinner , but that all should come to repent .
29 The positive levels effect of the exchange rate , on the other hand , probably illustrates more a coincidence with the trend of eurodollar issuance , as does the level of the euro/domestic differential .
30 This tension is then ‘ satisfyingly ’ released by the resolution from the Dominant chord to the tonic chord which usually starts off the chorus of the song .
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