Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as she shook her hair free and turned to the door , she realised that Miguel was already missing . |
| 2 | I went back into the club proper and headed for the ‘ phone . |
| 3 | Although there has been consultation throughout all stages of the programme 's development , the team in Glasgow , which includes Elaine Wardrope , Ernst & Young 's marketing manager in Scotland , as well as Lockett , has run the programme day-to-day and dealt with the detailed implementation of the programme . |
| 4 | The tradition to which they belong evolved an accommodation of Christian doctrine to a body of teaching inherited from Greek philosophy about a kind of knowledge — noesis — which is neither intellectual nor sensual , but in essence experiential and manifested in the human soul . |
| 5 | These characters fall into two broad categories , the radial shields are sometimes bar-like and long , often covered over by the disk covering which is usually small thin scales or occasionally stouter scales , or a disk covered by distinct plates with the radial shield distinct and integrated with the other plates . |
| 6 | This suggests the ‘ substitutive ’ wealth tax , which can be paid from income leaving wealth intact as opposed to the ‘ additive ’ wealth tax , which necessarily involves the sale of assets and corresponds to a strong aim of reducing wealth inequality . |
| 7 | ( He ceased to be a member of the Institute on 3 September 1992 for failing to pay the Disciplinary Committee fine and costs under the terms of Bye-law 41 . ) |
| 8 | A statutory demand under s 268 , Insolvency Act 1986 could not be made to recover tax payable as determined by the General Commissioner when the notice of that amount had not been served on the taxpayer at his usual or last known place of residence under s 115 , TMA 1970 , according to Chancery Division in Re a Debtor ( No 124/50/91 ) , Ex Parte the Debtor v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 888 . |
| 9 | For the moment part-time and funded by the University , it is hoped that a private benefactor will be able to endow the chair for a full-time professor . |
| 10 | She stripped her body naked and got under the covers . |
| 11 | As I expected , the jeeps were now arriving with the Commando dead and wounded from the areas around the village . |
| 12 | However , good and indispensable as personal libraries are , they are of necessity puny when compared with the whole store of human knowledge . |
| 13 | have the pleasure Mr Chairman , I too would like to erm home in on the subject of traffic calming as identified by the previous speakers and er I start with viewpoint that the Liberal Democrat case has been put in which is |
| 14 | He was really a very likeable lad , though a bit mysterious and withdrawn at the deepest level . |
| 15 | When they got to the bedroom , further surprises awaited them : ‘ Out of one of the beds , on which we were to repose , started up , at our entrance , a man black as Cyclops from the forge . ’ |
| 16 | On 28th August 1990 the group acquired Model Manufacturing Ltd and accounted for the acquisition by the merger method of accounting . |
| 17 | A mock battle ensued — at least , she hoped it was mock — then the pair went racing soundlessly off to push the unlatched communicating door ajar and disappear into the next room . |
| 18 | Then my father must have answered the buzzer in the house , because Diggs stooped slightly and talked into the grille beside the button , and then pushed the gate open and walked over the bridge , on to the island and down the path towards the house . |
| 19 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 20 | And then one evening I rang the bell and then I noticed the lock was up , so I pushed the door open and looked up the stairs , at the same time as Toinette looked down round the door . |
| 21 | Barnett threw the door open and strode into the street . |
| 22 | Sitting comfortably , idly flicking the shuffle function on your CD remote whilst musing on the stereo imaging afforded by the new Digital Compact Cassette players ? |
| 23 | Despite a conspicuous absence of the merest shred of evidence that Nizan had " betrayed " the PCF in any sense other than resigning from the party itself , it was objectively impossible for a communist in postwar France to view Nizan in terms other than those of betrayal and treachery . |
| 24 | Is participation voluntary and welcomed by the clients , or is it demanded of them by the action system , the change agent or even by some extraneous system , as in some parent-teacher associations ? |
| 25 | I would have got the answer wrong and plumped for the gin riots . |
| 26 | ‘ Apparently you keep the path clear and look after the little hut ; does your father come here much ? ’ |
| 27 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 28 | Caterers also face other difficulties , such as keeping food hot and coping with the long travelling distances between the kitchens and wards . |
| 29 | Brand new and shinning in the sun , this forty-one foot container boldly advertises the name of Stoddard Templeton as it travels daily between Lyle & Stoddard . |
| 30 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |