Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The account of Tottle 's suicide at the end of the story fits very awkwardly into the overall facetious tone of the piece . |
| 2 | This loss of faith goes far deeper among the young than the old . |
| 3 | Signed to a major label , The Wedding Present sit rather awkwardly on the edge of acceptance into mainstream pop . |
| 4 | In The Dear Green Place , Archie Hind exposed the sap and pulp that was hidden under the hard shell of that surprisingly literary construct , ‘ Glasgow ’ , and then ‘ fell silent ’ ( by which the literary world apologised for Hind 's decision to communicate more directly with the city 's damaged youth ) . |
| 5 | To our eternal regret there were no windows in the north wall which overlooked Broad Bay and , in the foreground , our five acre croft sloping gently away from the house to the top of sea cliffs . |
| 6 | The needles are then brought to the holding position and the knitting moved forward SLIGHTLY on the needles so that it is just forward of the sinker posts . |
| 7 | Sachs compared subjects ' performance with a variety of target sentence positions varying from 0 syllables delay ( for a sentence which had been heard immediately before the recognition test ) to 160 syllables delay ( for a sentence occurring relatively early in the passage ) . |
| 8 | From the back the sack looks very much like the Condor , for it has the same capacity — 60 litres expanding to 80 . |
| 9 | ‘ You disappoint me , ’ he said under his breath , and Rachel 's heart beat even faster at the darkness in his voice . |
| 10 | This event would presumably precede the potentials being recorded and it could provide an explanation for the apparent referral back in time in the first set of experiments , although it does seem electrophysiologically unlikely that there could be a neural change happening sufficiently early after the triggering stimulus . |
| 11 | This demonstration led shortly afterwards to the demonstration in the Radcliffe Infirmary of its effectiveness in patients with blood poisoning ; subsequently penicillin became one of the most important therapeutic agents in the history of medicine and has saved the lives of millions of animals and human beings . |
| 12 | At no place in this influential tradition is labourism defined , but it is evident that the term refers almost exclusively to the political orthodoxy dictating the course of labour representation in parliament . |
| 13 | The fighting became hand-to-hand all along the wall , blades flashing wickedly in the moonlight . |
| 14 | Her choice of leading man in this Thorn Birds -style shocker revealed much too about the new , confident Kylie . |
| 15 | Keep bulk feedstuffs as close to the farmyard as possible |
| 16 | As the relationship developed , the rhetoric staking claims to differentiated skills and functions remained , but each side moved culturally closer to the other . |
| 17 | At dawn the death toll rose still further in the worst disaster since 1952 , when 13 people were killed after a car left the track at Weyberg , Rhineland , Germany . |
| 18 | In the last week of January violence erupted once again in the autonomous ( Serbian ) province of Kosovo . |
| 19 | Psychology 's obsession with behaviourism owes far more to the fashion for logical positivism emerging from physicists in the 1930s than to any understanding of the needs of psychology . |
| 20 | Since such a review stands rather apart from the rest of the material , it is presented separately , in Appendix A , where we consider what syntax is and is not , and the difficulties that have beset previous attempts to explain it , of which the principal result has been an implicit acceptance of what may be called the " perspicuity of grammar " . |
| 21 | The new brick facing blends very well with the surroundings and adds to Ray and Beth Arnold 's work over several years in restoring Horderley to the appearance of a station . |
| 22 | No study looks systematically either at the role of girls vis-à-vis masculine delinquency , or at the possible importance of girls ' groups in female deviancy . |
| 23 | This is quite easy with the E6000 as the width of the knitting is programmed into the console , but on the Duomatic 80 , when knitting with the Deco and one colour , watch that the lock passes far enough past the right edge of the work to allow the Deco and arrow keys to do their job properly . |
| 24 | Although craft activity in some form was carried on almost everywhere , whether it can properly be termed industry depends very much on the objective and scale of the undertaking . |
| 25 | Manufacturing industry suffered particularly badly from the harm inflicted on the British economy by Labour Governments in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 26 | The implementation of the European Community 's 1992 programme depends very heavily on the enactment of new law , not just at Community level , but also — because most Community law does not work directly , but relies on national implementing measures — at national level . |
| 27 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 28 | The likelihood of the success of this practice depends very much on the current state of the property market , and how badly the seller wishes to move . |
| 29 | The differences between these two ways of approaching ethnic disadvantage show most clearly in the case of education . |
| 30 | ‘ Moreover , the argument that a custodial institution is inevitably a university of crime depends very much on the regime there and the allocation of inmates . |