Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 2 | It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge . |
| 3 | Local NGOs thus divert resources and personnel out of the public health services . |
| 4 | The first is that , if the Rokkaku is a real handful and pitches over from the vertical even when a steady pull is made on the flying line , then extend the upper section of the single line bridle connector by slipping the Lark 's Head knot down You will then have lowered the towing point relative to the sail . |
| 5 | Mark Raggett , a businessman spearheading the effort , said : ‘ If I was to take some of these materials and technologies back to the Soviet Union , I would probably be breaking the law . ’ |
| 6 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |
| 7 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 8 | What Scissormen do is take a series of chaotic noises , disturbed atmospherics and fragments of other people 's music , then hammer melodies and songs out of the cacophonous melée . |
| 9 | They ran a hardware store and diner in the White Mountains of New Hampshire , serving the hikers and campers up on the Appalachian trail . |
| 10 | Nanny these soap and things down on the right here , in front of you |
| 11 | And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate . |
| 12 | All the Brownies were invited to go home and think about what the Pack could do for the fete and bring their ideas and suggestions along to the next Pack Meeting . |
| 13 | Her ‘ antarctic polar deserts ’ region covers the continent , peninsula and islands up to the northern limit of pack ice , and is divided into southern and northern subregions separated by the 0°C summer isotherm , which approximates to the isoline of zero radiation balance . |
| 14 | Routine care consists of keeping an eye open for pests and diseases along with the occasional division of aquatic plants . |
| 15 | The UN escorted buses carrying more than 300 mothers and children out of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo yesterday . |
| 16 | The Palestinian guerrillas would squat behind their outposts of earth and rocks up in the cold air among the fir trees , cradling their rocket-propelled grenades and announcing to us that the Syrians would not be permitted to move one more metre — not one more inch — along the highway to Beirut . |
| 17 | Well I think it 's a case of just er being prudent and keeping all risks and doses down to the minimum possible . |