Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are filled with blood vessels and so help cool the animal , but they also collect and funnel sound into the earhole . |
| 2 | Its sites were on variable , disturbed and fertilised soils and mainly included only the less vulnerable trees . |
| 3 | He raised the lid , gazed for an instant at the contents and quietly blew away the dust from the tops of the brightly coloured pots . |
| 4 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
| 5 | Both in terms of er bringing forward more detailed criteria based policies but also determining specifically the areas to which the policy would apply . |
| 6 | I decided to specialise in patio pot plants but nothing thrived , and I 've just discovered that woodlice have invaded the pots and even eaten away the linings of wall baskets . |
| 7 | Carefully locate all the window holes and neatly cut away the icing over them , smoothing over the joins . |
| 8 | In this case a bass line must be chosen which avoids the forming of an excess of conventional triads and yet gives just the right harmonic equilibrium : ( In the above example , so as to follow the ‘ step-by-step ’ method of our exposition , we have deliberately avoided any alteration to the tenor part , and confined our changes to the bass only . |
| 9 | She carefully digested the headlines and then read only the news that interested her . |