Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I would be grateful if you could send the cheque along with the attached application form to : |
| 32 | Barney gave in to her pleas , and agreed to transport the canoe down to the Little Avon river on the roof-rack of the Armstrong after lunch . |
| 33 | Again she ignored him , doing amazingly well at steering the canoe out into the still waters of the lake . |
| 34 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 35 | Thus , while inter-sectoral divisions were indeed dominant in the wave up to the inter-war depression , the latest phase of Fordist restructuring has involved the establishment of ‘ a new intra -sectoral spatial division between regions specializing in different sub-sectors within the same industry , such as research and development , component manufacture and final assembly ’ ( ibid. , p. 228 ) . |
| 36 | The great strength of the British , its mental agility , was the drive behind the building up of the greatest Empire the world has known . |
| 37 | Waves formed by these northeast winds are responsible for the marked angle at the far point and for the building up of the recurved end so that it faces north-east . |
| 38 | She smoothed the hair back from the dead face . |
| 39 | Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 . |
| 40 | Relieved to be out in the open again , I looked for the route up onto the giant hump of Rhossili Down above the village . |
| 41 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |
| 42 | From 1981 the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome has contributed material from its bibliographical and photographic archives , expanding the scope of the Census through to the mid-sixteenth century and to include architecture . |
| 43 | Venables takes the fight back to the High Court in October , when he will attempt to buy Sugar 's 48 per cent controlling interest in Spurs . |
| 44 | If the source of the sound is standing on a solid object , like a radio on a table , or a washing machine on a floor , the vibrations will be set up in the solid object , and will travel along it , carrying the noise through to the next room , and even to the next house . |
| 45 | The Andean pact 's much publicised Decision 24 of 1970 progressively to exclude multinationals was reversed — the official euphemism was ‘ replaced ’ — by Decision 220 of May 1987 , effectively leaving the bargaining up to the individual states ( Bolivia , Peru , Ecuador and Venezuela ) . |
| 46 | Watkins also gives meanings for the obsolete word ‘ leye ’ as , firstly , an island , and secondly , flame , blaze or fire , both , as we have seen , relating to the laying out of the old straight track . |
| 47 | Some people think that it is useful to hold the stick back during the early part of the ground run , until sufficient speed has been reached to ensure good rudder control . |
| 48 | The position of the stick in steady flight is a very clear indication of the angle of attack , and having the stick back near the rearmost stop should warn the pilot that he is close to the stalling angle for the wing . |
| 49 | ‘ We must do this more often , Rose , ’ he said as he backed the Ford out from the ornamental cannon . |
| 50 | The complexities of these situations are shown by the case of an applicant and his family who left what was described as an ‘ overcrowded tin or galvanised structure with no basic amenities ’ in Bangladesh and who were treated as intentionally homeless by one London borough ( who considered that it was reasonable for them to continue to occupy that accommodation ) but not intentionally homeless by a second London borough who referred the applicant back to the first . |
| 51 | The USA had constantly insisted that the Krasnoyarsk radar station should be dismantled , calling it a major obstacle to the conclusion of a START treaty , and had rejected as inadequate a Soviet decision on Oct. 27 , 1988 , to turn the complex over to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for civilian use . |
| 52 | She went down to make a drink , and as she turned the light on in the dingy kitchen a dark thing shot across the floor to disappear under the dresser . |
| 53 | On Christmas morning , Murphy brought the carriage round to the front door long before Alexandra could send him a message to say she would drive herself to church . |
| 54 | It is necessary to have the lace carriage back on the left before you can knit any rows , so simply slide the carriage back to the left out of the way of the knitting . |
| 55 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 56 | Using a slight pushing action , he shifts the weight on to the extended right leg while at the same time skipping with his left foot towards the extended right leg and almost simultaneously jumping off the ground with the right leg . |
| 57 | The irritating thing is , he could not be bothered to put the sandwich down during the whole scene , and when she surfaced , she found his lip dripping with tomato seeds . |
| 58 | Much bargaining is tacit and informal , but at times it may become formalized into tripartite arrangements involving government , unions and enterprise management ; a rare example in the British context was the drawing up of the 1974 ‘ Plan for Coal ’ ( Burgi 1985 ) . |
| 59 | Instructions to the boundary commissioners were revoked and amended so that they would be able to consider economic interest as well as population and community in the drawing up of the new constituencies ; this was regarded as vital by the Unionists , for it seemed likely that the merging of the small boroughs into the county constituencies would take away the last of the agricultural seats . |
| 60 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |