Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |
| 2 | In the case of Venus thermal tides make a very large contribution and it can be shown that it is this component of the overall circulation that may drive the 4–5 day zonal circulation and thus speed up the axial spin ( section 4.2 ) . |
| 3 | The rain , whipped up by the wind , bit into her face , stung the softly tanned skin on her neck and then trickled down the inside of her blouse , to merge with the hundred other rivulets of water that soaked into her skin . |
| 4 | Eight students and four staff from Knowsley Community College in Huyton will travel to Greece by minibus and then drive over the Albanian border in two old ambulances packed with hospital equipment . |
| 5 | He had not tried , however , and now he was tying up the boat and expertly folding down the sails . |
| 6 | Rather than face up to change , however , politicians , especially in the Conservative Party , campaigned for the use of the tariff to keep out foreign goods and to provide subsidies to British industry and so slow down the process of adjustment . |
| 7 | Ease the cheesecake out of the tin and carefully peel off the foil to serve it . |
| 8 | Remove the fitting and thoroughly clean up the two ends of pipe with wire wool , before smearing on flux and putting on a new fitting . |
| 9 | On Dec. 17 Gaidar was made presidential economic adviser and also took up the directorship of the Institute for the Problems of the Transition Period . |
| 10 | Hand coils create unwanted slack and immediately tighten around the hand under load , trapping the fingers and preventing an effective arrest . |
| 11 | To measure a ship 's speed , medieval sailors used to throw a log on a length of knotted rope over the side and then count off the knots . |
| 12 | He drove a few miles out of the village and then pulled off the road to wait for dusk . |
| 13 | The curtains were not drawn half across the window and so closing out the light as most curtains were wont to do , but were wide apart showing , of all things , a piece of grassland parched by the sun but , nevertheless , still giving evidence that it was grass by the strip in the shadow of the house . |
| 14 | With a strength Isabel had not known she possessed she had beaten back panic and calmly taken down the rushlight , dividing the rushes into smaller bundles to conserve the light . |
| 15 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |
| 16 | ( ii ) Transfer the testis to fresh 2.2% sodium citrate solution contained in a small glass Petri dish and gently pull out the tubules . |
| 17 | If the law is not clear , first pose the legal question and then set out the authorities bearing on it . |
| 18 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 19 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 20 | We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle . |
| 21 | On 5 July 1966 that Congress , which had made him president For Life , revoked this decision and also handed over the authority to appoint Cabinets to General Suharto . |
| 22 | He slipped a hand beneath Corbett 's cloak and deftly drew out the clerk 's knife which he stuck into his own sturdy leather-studded belt , and almost dragged the horse across the market-place . |
| 23 | This suggests that the group undergoing relaxation is associated with a dipole moment and thus rules out the phenyl ring libration as a likely process . |
| 24 | Both guards broke clear , looked round for a moment and then leapt up the bank into the wood . |
| 25 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 26 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 27 | Trees cut her view for part of the way and when she could see the street door leading to her flat she noticed a man dawdling by , looking up and down the pavement and then strolling back the way he had come . |
| 28 | Spoon into the prepared baking dish , season with the nutmeg and then sprinkle over the Parmesan . |
| 29 | We bade farewell to the wild deer and , with the wind behind us , crossed Taransay Sound and gently cruised up the fjord-like approach towards civilization . |
| 30 | There 's no installation program ; instead you have to create a directory on your hard disk and manually copy over the files . |