Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROFITS reached an all time high for the Food & Agriculture Division announced by for the year ending December 31 , 1992 . |
| 2 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 3 | In Paradise Street , in particular , weavers ' workshops can be seen on the top storeys of brick houses built early in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 5 | Tables listing 60 endowment companies published in the periodical Planned Savings show that the top performers for endowment policies paying out at the end of 1990 could do anything up to twice as well as companies at the bottom of the table . |
| 6 | To make the railings , press halved cocktail sticks point down into the icing at 2cm ( ¾inch ) intervals all the way round the front edge of the deck — about eighteen in all . |
| 7 | ‘ I get to feel more and more like some splendid Regency buck surviving sadly into the horrible reign of Prince Albert the Good . ’ |
| 8 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 9 | An inexpensive sweet Muscat which is from the Mediterranean coast of Spain , boasting sultana and honey notes tagged on to the familiar medley of citrus fruits . |
| 10 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 11 | The Brazilian arms industry provides a second example , but in this case change came more from the workings of market forces , not , as one might suppose , from the continuing strong influence of the military in Brazilian politics ( C. Evans , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 14 | To the left of them , a conch shell brought back from the Indian Ocean curled mysteriously in on itself , like the pink and white entrance to another world . |
| 15 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |
| 16 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 17 | Then , some time later , Francis Greenway was accused of forgery in connection with a building contract made shortly before the failure ; and , tried at Bristol assizes on 23 March 1812 , he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to transportation for life . |
| 18 | And just past Morfa Mawddach station an RSPB woodland trail leads off to the right . |
| 19 | At the first opportunity Sarah went again to the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't approach by Guilford Street in case the porter came out of his lodge and recognized her . |
| 20 | Armed vigilante groups fight back against the gangs , adding to a vicious circle of violence . |
| 21 | In its first year of rail operations based solely on the seven-mile Paignton to Kingswear line , these figures can only be regarded as poor . |
| 22 | Overall the preference was for a six hour course followed closely by the three hour course . |
| 23 | Oman had reportedly favoured the formation of a regional defence force drawn exclusively from the Gulf states [ see p. 38364 ] . |
| 24 | I suspect that the European defence force owes more to the French belief that , by merging German and French forces together , it effectively removes the threat of German militarism , while resurrecting the long-held French ambition to remove the immediate American influence from European defence , which is the case with NATO . |
| 25 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 26 | A bright-red saloon car zoomed past from the south and shot me to my feet with my arms waving wildly . |
| 27 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 28 | Ruari and Ranald normally lazed about , cut peat , or borrowed a boat and rowed out to do a bit fishing to stock up for the winter , while Luch did her usual tasks and her usual check on the baby — the babies , now — in the bower . |
| 29 | After the initial nationalisation programme carried out by the post-war Labour government , there was relatively little change in the frontiers between the state sector and the private sector . |
| 30 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |