Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the red ball goes down the edge of the white ball ? |
| 5 | However , revolutionary technological innovation represents only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Play them in order and make sure that your thumb , which holds down the root of the G chords , also deadens the A string … |
| 11 | With very good will the adviser writes down the address of the local family counselling services . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 16 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 17 | The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male . |
| 18 | Thus if a defective toaster catches fire damaging the house and contents , one adds up the value of the damage done ( but not including either the toaster itself or any property used mainly for business purposes , e.g. a word processor ) . |
| 19 | The later Thomson story illustrates also the volatility of the conglomerate in the 1980s . |
| 20 | In Dostoevsky 's opinion , ‘ The portrait painter seeks the moment when the model looks most like himself ; in the capacity to find and hold this moment lies also the talent of the portraitist . ’ |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman illustrates perfectly the short-termism of the Labour Front Bench . |
| 22 | The analysis is also considerably weakened by the empiricism of their notion of ‘ direct , immediate experience ’ , which writes out the significance of the complex interpretive frameworks through which events , processes and facts are constructed . |
| 23 | It holds back the contribution to the economy of many highly skilled workers . |
| 24 | This illustrates dramatically the influence of the individual nucleons on the nuclear size , but as yet no quantitative calculations have been able to reproduce the effect . |
| 25 | The example also illustrates how the flexibility of the system enables a student 's developing interests to be accommodated . |
| 26 | From the east the Siberian pipeline has twice the capacity of the gas already contracted for , while to the north , Norway holds the largest North Sea gas reserves . |
| 27 | It is ‘ hydrogen ’ because there is only one proton and ‘ heavy ’ because it has twice the bulk of the usual variety , and was discovered by Harold Urey in 1931 , a year before Chadwick proved the existence of the isolated neutron . |
| 28 | For such elements and compounds , the bond dissociation enthalpy has twice the value of the enthalpy of atomisation . |
| 29 | We typically have a relatively short micro-instruction format ( perhaps 16 bits ) , part of which specifies how the remainder of the micro-instruction is to be interpreted ( that is , it represents an operation code ) . |
| 30 | Yet it illustrates vividly the extent of the power which may be implicit in the relationship between care worker and old person . |