Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States had provided a reasonably stable inflationary ceiling up to the mid-sixties . |
| 2 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 3 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 4 | Kaprun is an ideal centre for walking in beautiful alpine scenery , with every route you choose offering fantastic views particularly if you take the high alpine road up to the Gross Glockner , the highest mountain in Austria . |
| 5 | I did n't see it for ages because I was too busy sticking an old rotten fence-post out through the slits in the pillbox , pretending it was a gun and firing at imaginary ships . |
| 6 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 7 | I put the old electric fire on in the shed , not so much to warm me as to keep the highly hygroscopic mixture from absorbing moisture out of a damp air . |
| 8 | Cross the footbridge and follow the steep zig-zag path up to the wall and the ladder stile . |
| 9 | The forward fuselage suffered longitudinal crushing damage back to the area of the rudder pedals . |
| 10 | This was real racing history being made — and , what 's more , being made by an Irish mare ridden by the most popular Irish-born jockey around at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival , Ireland 's annual pilgrimage to English racing . |
| 11 | In Chapter 5 I propose to look at a different aspect of metalinguistic politics : the way in which grammarians and linguists have projected a male/ female dichotomy on to the languages of the world , and their attempts to use grammar as a tactical weapon in the battle of the sexes . |
| 12 | This unidimensionality is imposed on history by a backward projection of present-day standard phonology on to the past , and according to the theory of language standardization that we have tentatively advanced elsewhere ( J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) , it can be seen as an attempt to historicize the standard language — to create a past for it and determine a canon , in which canonical forms are argued for and unorthodox forms rejected . |
| 13 | All right the abbey is in ruins and I doubt whether that impotent old priest up at the Old Rectory has much on offer . |
| 14 | The blue dog is quoted at 12-1 joint ante-post favourite along with the Carrick-bred bitch Lisglass Lass , Brendan Mullan 's Newry hope Daleys Denis and Greenane Squire . |
| 15 | We 're just a rotten little side-show up in the sky . |
| 16 | Hank drove the gleaming little Triumph out of the lot . |
| 17 | This was followed by Mr Gissing on ‘ Railways in the Rugby Area ’ , illustrated with photographs taken in the early post-war era up to the present day . |
| 18 | Everywhere the create a warm orange sweep up to the contrasting Ancaster stone of St James 's spire . |
| 19 | Corrosion-control of the containers and the vaults wilt be achieved by recirculating a portion of the warm outgoing air back into the inlet ducts . |
| 20 | In its effort to avoid all church mediation of the revealed word of God , the fundamentalist version relies on the literal interpretation of the Bible , but one which imposes a contemporary Western culture on to the different perceptions of a past culture . |
| 21 | These include particle-induced X-ray emission ( PIXE ) which provides quantitative analytical information down to the parts-per-million level for elements above sodium in the periodic table by measuring the characteristic X-ray emission following proton/electron collisions ; Rutherford backscattering spectrometry ( RBS ) , which when applied to thin biological specimens , provides information on the matrix elements C , N and O by measuring the energy of the backscattered incident ion after a nuclear collision ; and scanning transmission ion microscopy ( STIM ) which gives information on the structure and density of the sample by monitoring the energy loss of the transmitted ions . |
| 22 | Cold weather enabled the resorts to operate their snowmaking machines and ensure a solid white carpet back to the village which survived a warm patch over Christmas and is predicted to last long through the months ahead . |
| 23 | Significantly , despite his huge investment in bloodstock , Sheikh Mohammed has never won the Epsom Derby and the pressure will be on to have this exceptional three-year-old line up for the world 's most famous Classic . |
| 24 | I step off my chipboard kneeler on to a joist in order to slide the three-foot square board up near the eaves in the corner . |
| 25 | little shallow pool down by the seaside will be warmer . |
| 26 | I frantically started to use my hands to bale out the water in an attempt to avoid the seemingly inevitable embarrassing swim in to the beach and the awaiting crowd of families and friends . |
| 27 | ‘ Lost McAllister , have we ? ’ he said , tossing his soft grey hat on to the sideboard . |
| 28 | The box at Marske-in-Swaledale , which turns its blank stainless steel back to the main road , is a particularly sore thumb . |
| 29 | She sets out before the sun , driving a team of horses which pull her soft blue chariot up from the depths of the ocean , and shows her brother the way to rise . |
| 30 | RUSSIA The Bolsheviks are coming Market reforms have brought hardship and a revival of national left-wing oppostion out of the ashes of the outlawed Communist Party , reports historian Roy Medvedev |