Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 2 | So from then on they learnt the discipline of budgeting and faithfully sent home the pound themselves . |
| 3 | The purpose of the present chapter is to note some of the practical difficulties of managing book provision programmes , to try and suggest minimum system requirements for effective management and finally to outline briefly the important features of existing management systems . |
| 4 | It is shareholders who , at least in theory , appoint the chairman and should ensure a balanced board and therefore have perhaps the primary role in enforcing the Cadbury code . |
| 5 | The new philosophers ‘ cut off and deny the noblest parts of nature and then sweep together the dust of agitated atoms and tell us that they have resolved all the phenomena in nature ’ . |
| 6 | A proposal that public money should be spent on a measure which is likely to aggravate this position ( the low birth rate ) by making contraception universally available on request and thereby to affect adversely the continuity of the state , is one which we feel we can not endorse . |
| 7 | Who else but Runcorn could give an impromptu hour-long lecture on any geophysical topic and probably have just the right slides in his pocket to support it ? |
| 8 | In the long run , investment will also affect the supply side of the economy , raising its productive potential and thereby pushing outwards the production frontier . |
| 9 | Because of the romantic roles that Yuri dances , however , it was very important not to alter his image too much , maintaining length but subtly improving both the shape and texture of his hair . |
| 10 | For all its talk of fostering artistic freedom and widening participation in the arts , Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture frowns upon middle-brow bourgeois culture and exclusively cultivates either the avant-garde or pop . |
| 11 | This brings the aircraft back into balance and instantly increases both the capacity and length of the cargo floor , or cabin if seats are to be installed . |
| 12 | As the splenic flexure is an anatomical region easily reached and identified by an experienced endoscopist , we found easy access to this region and then advanced either the endoscope or the guidewire into the transverse colon . |
| 13 | She sat with Nellie and Brigid Drennan , Tommy 's wife , at the corner table and never said much the whole night . |