Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the Bristol sound in a new direction are Reborn , a dance act rooted more firmly in the On-U sound effect than Smith & Mighty . |
| 2 | Although the latter once jocularly remarked to Briand , the Premier , that in his relationship with Joffre ‘ apart from sleeping together , we could n't do anything more to show our intimacy ’ and although every afternoon — as part of the Chantilly ritual — he accompanied the Commander-in-Chief on his post-prandial stroll , Joffre and his coterie were as jealous as Turks of the brother-general placed so dangerously near the throne . |
| 3 | Parliament was dissolved on March 16 , with the last days of business occupied almost exclusively with the Finance Bill which incorporated the fiscal measures announced in the budget . |
| 4 | To set as your aim an examination seen only dimly at the end of a period of many months is to invite failure in your studies . |
| 5 | Body hunched apparently awkwardly over the front of the machine , hunting for front tyre grip , Doohan slams the NSR on to its side so violently that he will surely crash . |
| 6 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Hardly ever has a Goebbels article stood so much in the public eye as this one , ’ added the report , ‘ but his articles have probably never been so criticized . |
| 8 | Has chemistry changed very much over the years , Peter ? |
| 9 | One trend is toward a climatology geared more closely to the soil-water balance and the availability of soil water to plants . |
| 10 | It is in the work of Edward Said that we can find the problematic of historicist forms of knowledge linked most forcibly to the question of European imperialism . |
| 11 | If the lavatory is too low for an elderly person , a raised polypropylene toilet seat which fits over it , but is easy to remove and to wash , can be very useful , and a chromium-plated hand-grip fixed very securely to the wall at the side of the lavatory can also be helpful . |
| 12 | A flicker of hope stirred to life , although it was accompanied by a shiver of horror , as Isabel saw the evil hidden once again behind the truth . |
| 13 | I am not convinced that special circumstances apply in this case which override the which is advice given very clearly in the P P G Twelve , that , in general , late objections should not be entertained except in most exceptional circumstances . |
| 14 | This , then , was the method adopted almost universally for the control and eradication of malaria after the Second World War . |
| 15 | There are several ways of expressing the factors affecting the cash position in the money market , but this is the method used most often in the Bank 's Quarterly Bulletin . |
| 16 | In this procedure the surgeon cut obliquely inwards towards the bone . |
| 17 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 18 | At Mallia , the foundation course projected far enough from the rest of the wall to make a ledge that was wide enough to sit on . |
| 19 | As fig. 5.8 shows , accurate choice performance developed more readily in the correlated group . |
| 20 | The storms have also left the remains of a medieval church perched perilously close to the sea . |
| 21 | In Rabbi Cohen 's the exodus followed very soon after the last Amen , for the Rabbi spent little time in idle conversation and his withdrawal from the room was the signal for the other worshippers to leave . |
| 22 | The work finished , the dead buried and the site cleared , Batty Green reverted to a sullen silence broken now only by the occasional passage of trains , the rhythmic pulse of their wheels seeming to sound a requiem for those who perished . |
| 23 | In the course of the 1930s language was increasingly considered only in relation to the literary work , no longer to social and cultural policy ; a transition seen most notably in the reception given to the writings of F. W. Bateson ( see p. 90 ) . |
| 24 | A book written so close to the time is unlikely to have achieved the necessary perspective on such a controversial subject and not all of the evidence will have been accessible . |
| 25 | Less excusably , there is a doctoral dissertation on Rameau 's orchestration based almost exclusively on the Oeuvres complètes and thus largely invalid . |
| 26 | Yet they have a genus of langur monkey known nowhere else in the Oriental Region . |
| 27 | The model accorded quite well with the idea of locally devolved team work ( Hadley and McGrath , 1980 ) , but contradicted the long-standing beliefs in genericism ( Pinker , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
| 29 | But at last , panting steam , they had Blagg propped almost upright in the rain . |
| 30 | The animal prion diseases are scrapie , affecting sheep and goats and prevalent in most sheep rearing countries ( although not Australasia or Japan ) ; transmissible mink encephalopathy , occurring in rare outbreaks in captive bred animals on mink farms , mainly in North America ; chronic wasting disease of captive mule deer and elk , seen in North America ; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy , currently a major epidemic confined almost entirely to the cattle of the British Isles . |